Mollie King on Becoming a Mum While Losing Her Dad
Happy Mum
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week, Giovanna sits down with singer, presenter and all-round ray of sunshine Mollie King !
Mollie chats to Gi about life with her two young daughters, the realities of motherhood (no sleep), and her exciting new venture into podcasting.
She also opens up about navigating her father’s terminal illness while preparing to welcome her first baby.
Don’t forget to check out Novel Idea — Mollie’s brilliant new podcast with Matt Edmondson!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of Happy Mum. |
| 0:08.8 | Today's guest, well we go way back actually, we go decades back. |
| 0:12.6 | It is the amazing Molly King. |
| 0:15.3 | I know her from her days in the Saturdays when we used to go out for dinners and do a little bit of dancing together. |
| 0:21.2 | There was lots of it. |
| 0:22.3 | She has always been an absolute joy. |
| 0:26.1 | There's just this positivity that just beams out of her. |
| 0:30.3 | You just feel like the world is a happier place with Molly King here, to be honest. |
| 0:35.2 | And it's been incredible over the last nine years to see her |
| 0:38.2 | career going down a completely different path with Matt Evanson. So we dive into that a little bit |
| 0:42.6 | in this chat as well. But obviously the biggest change for her for her life is happening over the last |
| 0:46.8 | few years with the arrival of her two little daughters, Annabella and Lillianna. I laugh a lot in this chat, but Molly is so funny. We also get |
| 0:58.7 | quite emotional and reflective talking about her dad. So while Molly was pregnant, |
| 1:06.9 | you'll find out in this chat while Molly was pregnant. Her dad was diagnosed with a brain tumor. |
| 1:12.1 | And I, that's so much to get your head around. |
| 1:15.5 | Like we have such big chats on this podcast about, you know, the big shift, |
| 1:19.0 | the big change that happens when you become a mum and the messiness of that and the rawness of that. |
| 1:24.3 | Add that to the rawness and the messiness of grief that again comes in lots of |
| 1:29.7 | different waves. |
| 1:31.0 | Molly in this chat is so beautifully open and honest and reflective. |
| 1:36.1 | So enjoy this chat with the absolutely adorable Molly King. |
| 1:42.7 | But also because you need to be so succinct. |
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