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Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

My mother would do anything for her children. And that's how I am too.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!'

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.

You always have guilt as a working mum, and you overcompensate by buying them loads of things. That was what I was doing, anyway. I've kind of realised now that I'm the best mum that I can be.

Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.