Myleene Klass admits she’s struggling while juggling Dancing On Ice training with home schooling

Myleene Klass is struggling mentally with juggling her Dancing On Ice training, home schooling her children and tending to a toddler.

The TV and radio star, 42, admitted she’s currently finding life at home with a big family ‘psychologically challenging’ and joked she would rather do the head-banger, one of ice skating’s most dangerous moves, than teach her daughter fractions.

She believes Dancing On Ice ‘couldn’t have come at a better time’ as the show has given her the ‘light relief’ she’s craved amid the pandemic and pressures she’s facing as a parent. 

‘Everybody just needs the pressure turned down’: Myleene Klass is struggling mentally with juggling her Dancing On Ice training, home schooling her children and tending to a toddler 

Myleene told MailOnline: ‘I cannot lie, from a psychological point of view from as a mum, I’ve got two children, home schooling, a toddler who is trying to climb the wine rack, with his dad, and two stepchildren – it’s a lot.

‘Family life at the moment is a lot. My children are asking me about fronted adverbials, my daughter is doing fractions, which literally I would rather go on the ice and do a head banger than take on fractions!

‘The show couldn’t have come at a better time. The light relief it provides, my kids get excited, they want to see the costumes, they want to know what everyone else is dancing to, everybody just needs the pressure turned down a little bit and if that’s what Dancing On Ice does then I’ll make a tit of myself on the ice!

‘People want to smile, I want to smile, I just want to be entertained – I want to see glitter and people spinning around and overcoming new challenges.’ 

'The show couldn't have come at a better time': The TV and radio star admitted she's currently finding life at home with a big family 'psychologically challenging'

‘The show couldn’t have come at a better time’: The TV and radio star admitted she’s currently finding life at home with a big family ‘psychologically challenging’ 

Myleene is a mum to Ava, 13, and Hero, nine, from her previous marriage to bodyguard Graham Quinn, and shares son Apollo, one, with fiancé Simon Motson.

She’s also a step-mum to Simon’s son and daughter from his first marriage, and has previously spoken about loving her ‘blended family.’

Dancing On Ice host Holly Willoughby, 39, backed her pal Myleene to win the show, down to her classical musical background.

But Myleene believes Holly only championed her as they’re both mums coping with the same struggles of home schooling, and it’s important they stick together. 

'A toddler who is trying to climb the wine rack': Myleene made light of her current challenges at home by saying son Apollo has been up to mischief in the kitchen

‘A toddler who is trying to climb the wine rack’: Myleene made light of her current challenges at home by saying son Apollo has been up to mischief in the kitchen 

She said: ‘Holly is so lovely and she’s a mum so she’s just being really nice cheering for the underdog. It’s what us mums we do, we just say ‘you can do it, you can do it.’

‘Holly is awesome, she is really awesome – she probably felt for me under all the home schooling mum conditions that are going on at the minute.’

Myleene, who’s partnered with Lukasz Rozycki, has suffered a ‘very painful’ knee injury ahead of her solo first skate on Sunday – but is more humiliated over feeling old with achy joints.

She said: ‘I feel almost embarrassed by my injury because it is not a very sexy injury. I feel like a nana. 

'It's not very sexy!': Myleene, who's paired with Lukasz Rozycki, has suffered a 'painful' knee injury ahead of her solo first skate ¿ but is more humiliated over feeling old with achy joints

‘It’s not very sexy!’: Myleene, who’s paired with Lukasz Rozycki, has suffered a ‘painful’ knee injury ahead of her solo first skate – but is more humiliated over feeling old with achy joints

‘It is a meniscus injury – it is very painful but just not very sexy when you say your knees have gone!

‘Here’s the thing, on land I feel quite stable and feel I can do my turns and get my counts to the music but as soon as you remove the land and replace it with a slippery surface, it just does a whole manner of things to your joints.

‘I am like the Tin Man, every morning I wake up and have to oil and manipulate things before I can even think of getting out of bed.

‘I thought it was going to make me feel like I’m 16 again but it is making me feel like I’m 116!’ 

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