Dancing On Ice’s Chelsee Healey reveals baby number 3 and engagement plans after spending first Xmas as family of 4
HOLLYOAKS star Chelsee Healey has revealed she’ll start trying for a third baby when she’s eliminated from Dancing On Ice.
The actress, 36, is hard at work training for the ITV winter reality show with her skating partner Andy Buchanan.
Though she’s hoping to stick around in the competition, which starts in January, for as long as possible, Chelsee has one eye on expanding her family the moment it’s over.
In an exclusive interview, she said: “Oh my gosh, yeah I’m hoping as soon as Dancing On Ice is finished we can go again.
“I just want a really big team and I just I love children. I really want to expand my little family.”
Chelsee welcomed her second daughter, Cookie, last December, just days before Christmas.
Cookie is her first child with boyfriend Eddie, while she also has daughter Coco, seven, from her relationship with Jack Malloy.
This festive season is shaping up to be a special one, and Chelsee can’t wait for a cosy December 25 at home with her brood.
She said: “This is our first Christmas as a family of four and honestly I’m just so excited for it. This one’s going to be the best one.
“My man is amazing. I have no complaints. He still makes me feel so excited and so just to get to share that also our youngest is one on the 21st, so it’s going to be extra special this year.
“So, literally at home with the family, food, just spending quality time together where I don’t need to think about the gruelling training that I’m going through at the minute.”
Before then though, she’ll be treating herself to a little something as part of AliExpress’s Singles Day campaign which encourages people to reward themselves.
She said: “We always put our children before ourselves so it is very rare that we do treat ourselves. I think at the minute I’m definitely deserving a treat and I will be treating myself very soon.
“I feel like my treat is something very minimal but something that just makes me feel good, so that could be fresh new pyjamas, a candlelit bath, just the little things that mean the most in our crazy mum and dad life.”
Another baby might not be the only big life change coming Chelsee’s way next year.
She’s predicting a proposal at some point and says her man is keen to tie the knot.
“You know what, I think we’re definitely going to get a ring next year,” she smiled.
“I might be totally off it, but I can just feel it. I just feel like next year, I don’t know why, I’ve got my birthday in my head. I think that could be the one.”
Amid the backdrop of her flourishing personal life, Chelsee will be making an impression on television screens too.
Not only is she taking to the ice, but she’ll be returning to Hollyoaks as Goldie McQueen in March and is eyeing up huge storylines.
She teased: “I just wanted to come back and cause murders. I want to be cheeky Goldie, but Dancing On Ice at the minute, this is really hard work, so going back to Hollyoaks will be like a holiday for me.”
Her training regime currently consists of two gruelling hours on the ice daily with Andy, which has left her back “in bits”.
Chelsee joked that neither of her co-stars who have done the show before – Jennifer Metcalfe or Jorgie Porter, warned her just how tough it would be.
“I mean I didn’t anticipate it was going to be this hard,” she said. “It’s so intense and then I’m coming home, my girls are non-stop, so it is literally just constant at the minute.
“It can be really exhausting. I just feel like I’m walking on clouds every day because I’m so tired.”
FOR THE GIRLS
So far, she has avoided any major catastrophes on the ice and is determined to take on the big moves, including the famous headbanger.
“I’m up for anything,” she said. “I love a challenge and I think I’ll be better up in the air than on the ice so just throw me about, the whole routine.”
Ultimately, the support of her young daughters will pull her through the tough times, and they are providing her with the motivation to succeed.
She said: “I’m gonna be super nervous but the whole reason why I’m doing this is for my daughters. They are my inspiration and I want to teach them that you can do something and you can achieve anything that you put your mind to.
“This is so out my comfort zone and I want to teach them that if you go for it then it’s possible, so I just hope that I do them proud even though it’s going to be very real and I will be very nervous.”
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