EXCLUSIVE: Girls Aloud star Kimberley Walsh sat down with OK! as she spoke about the upcoming tour, parenting her three sons while reflecting back on her own 'tough' childhood
Girls Aloud star Kimberley Walsh is busy preparing to tour the UK - 21 years since she and her bandmates Cheryl Tweedy, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts and the late Sarah Harding won Popstars: The Rivals. But away from fame, the 42-year-old star is a doting mum to her three sons, Bobby, nine, Cole, seven, and two-year-old Nate and shares the same relatable struggles as any busy mum.
Anyone who follows Kimberley on Instagram would have seen her love for renovation projects, something she's been interested in since she was a child. "I grew up in a house with three siblings and my mum, who was a single mum and had no money," she recalled, thinking back to childhood times growing up in Bradford.
With this mindset, the pop star is keen to keep her children's feet on the ground, in spite of their privileged lifestyle. "I’m not saying I had the hardest upbringing in the world but it was tough at times. It was worlds apart from what theirs is. The holidays that they go on, the fact that if they need to go on a school trip it’s just a yes and if they need shoes for school – even those things weren’t a given for me. You didn’t even ask for it. You’d just manage," she told us.
She added: "They know that they’re very lucky and they have a lot more space and a bigger home than most people. It’s something I struggle with a bit and I still don’t know what way I’m going to make that hit home for them a bit." But before she gets back into pop star mode, the DIY fanatic is keen to talk about the new paint colour she’s launching with Wickes and she enthusiastically tells us how she came to devise the perfect shade of green. "I did my first paint colour collaboration with Wickes in 2023. That went really well so I managed to get them to agree to let me do another one. So I’ve done this green, called Subtle Sage, and for me, it’s perfect.
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