We’re not so sure their kids will be happy about their mums getting so candid about the birds and the bees live on telly
No topic is off limits on Loose Women and that includes embarrassing the hell out of their children.
The panel revealed just how they approached the awkward birds and the bees chat – that private moment between parent and child – live on air and with thousands of viewers watching.
Presenter Ruth Langsford admitted she was gearing herself up for the big talk with her son Jack, 13, because husband Eamonn Holmes doesn’t like “smutty talk”.
Discussing how children are more likely to practise safe sex if the mother gives that all important chat, Ruth shared: “Well in my house I say thank goodness for me, because honestly if Eamonn said ‘willy’ he’d go bright red.
Ruth said she was ready for the birds and the bees
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“He can’t cope. Any sort of smutty talk as he calls it, he starts tutting like an old man. I know it will have to be me.”
She added: “I have practised my non-shocked face. Because what they know now at 13, and 14, is unbelievable.”
Birds of a Feather actress Linda Robson even went on to reveal the moment she took her own daughter to the doctors for contraception.
Linda said she knew when her daughter Lauren, who is now 31 and a mother herself, was going to have sex and prepared her accordingly.
Linda said she prepared her daughter
“I knew when Lauren had had a boyfriend for quite a while at about 16 or 17 that I knew something was probably going to happen. So I had that conversation with her and took her to get the pill, and the same with Louis as well.”
And of course Janet Street Porter had her own tale to tell of losing her virginity, explaining: “I was desperate to lose my virginity and on the night I lost my virginity my mum was in hospital and I went to see her later on and she knew. She gave me that look, they can tell.”
Coleen Nolan even confessed that her kids had taught HER about the birds and the bees saying, “they know more than me”.
