Lucy Mecklenburgh admits ‘built up resentment’ to Ryan Thomas over sleepless nights

Lucy Mecklenburgh has admitted that her sleepless nights with son baby Roman caused some ‘built up resentment’ towards her fiancé Ryan Thomas.

The former TOWIE star, 29, welcomed her first child with the actor, 36, in March last year, and reflected on life as a new mum and with less shut-eye on Wednesday.  

Sharing an information graphic about sleep deprivation to Instagram Stories, Lucy penned: ‘I wish I’d have seen posts like this in the first six months’.

Included in the list of things that not getting enough shut-eye can cause was ‘built up resentment because my partner is getting more sleep’.

Others such as ‘lead me to be impulsive and aggressive’ and ’cause irritability when my child wakes through the night’ also made the list. 

It comes after Ryan detailed his own sleep habits on his Mancs On The Mic podcast, admitting he recently took a sneaky nap while Lucy was changing their son.

He told his brothers Adam and Scott during the episode in February: ‘I fell asleep on the couch last night and it was the most peaceful sleep I’ve ever had in my life.

‘Then Lucy comes in and she goes, “What are you doing?” And I just looked at her in shock like I’d seen a ghost and I was like, “I’m SLEEPING!”‘

‘And she goes, “Well don’t you want to get in bed?” and I went, “But I’m asleep. And I’m having a really nice sleep!”

Ryan said that soon after the exchange Roman woke up and ‘peed himself’, meaning his quiet time was over. 

And although managing to drift off quickly on that occasion Ryan said he usually can’t fall asleep so quickly.

He said ‘I struggle with sleep so much and I appreciate my sleep so much more now. I’m not the best sleeper at times. If I can sleep, I’m the happiest man in the world.’

The soap star previously praised ‘incredible’ Lucy for all she went through during pregnancy and postpartum life, saying seeing her as a mother is ‘inspiring’. 

He said: ‘It’s just incredible what a woman can do. To go through the pregnancy, the birth, learning to feed, it’s really inspiring to see.

‘It’s brought us closer together, 100 percent. I’m so impressed with the way she’s taken to it. I love her even more now because she’s the mother of my child, so it feels unconditional between us now.’ 

As well as being dad to Roman, Ryan is also a father to his daughter Scarlett, 12, from his previous relationship with Tina O’Brien, and he said he gets a real ‘buzz’ from seeing his two children interract.

He added: ‘It made my family complete and as a father, to see your two kids together like that, there is no buzz like it.

‘I love watching Scarlett with Roman and seeing the way he looks at her.’