She's got a happy marriage, three gorgeous children and an incredible TV career but for Nadiya Hussain, heartbreak is on the horizon. Nadiya's eldest son Musa, 18, will go to university next year, followed 12 months later by his brother Dawud, 17. Then she'll have a few more precious years left with her daughter Maryam, 13, before she flies the nest too, leaving just Nadiya and her husband in the family home.
Already, her three teenagers need her less and less and Nadiya is struggling with the change - and wondering why no one talks about the pain of your children growing up.
"My son is going to university next year," says Nadiya, who married her husband Abdal in 2005 and welcomed baby Musa just after their first wedding anniversary. "It's really weird because when you have a baby everyone always has great advice for you. But when you have teenagers nobody says to you, 'Are you alright because I know you have teenagers?' or 'How are you coping with that change?' And that's huge! I wasn't quite ready for all the time I've got now because they don't hang out that much. The only time we hang out is if we're doing something together in the kitchen. They're mostly up in their bedrooms." Nadiya, 39, has always enjoyed her three children being close in age but until now, she'd never considered the downside. "I hadn't really thought about the fact that my nest will be empty as quickly as it was filled," shares Nadiya.
"One will go, then the next one will go, and then three years later, my daughter will go. I said to my husband, 'We either have another baby, or we get a puppy, which will it be?"" In the cold light of day though, Nadiya is not keen to return to the years of sleepless nights, nappies and porridge-splattered high chairs.
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