Myleene Klass broke down in tears in an Instagram video on Tuesday as she prepares to send her daughter Ava off to University.
The singer, 47, explained she had even started crying in front of her optician after he asked her how many children she had and how old they were.
It reminded Myleene that her eldest was going to University in a matter of days and would be leaving home for three years.
She said: ‘So this is a combination of trying on contact lenses for the first time, just come from the opticians and crying in the opticians because he asked me how many children I have and their ages.
‘I then I just burst into tears and said”well three but my 18-year-old is going to Uni in a few days”.
‘I literally just cried all over him which wasn’t ideal when he was fitting contact lenses.’
Myleene Klass, 47, broke down in tears in an Instagram video on Tuesday as she prepares to send her daughter Ava, 18, off to University
The singer explained she had even started crying in front of her optician after he asked her how many children she had and how old they were (pictured with Ava)
She added: ‘Mums, how do you do this? How do you say goodbye to your first love. Is this what I’m going to do for three years?
‘I literally want this for her but I don’t want it for me. My baby, she hasn’t even gone yet. Oh my god, how am I going to drive her there and drive home like this.
‘I’m just going to have too pull over and cry in the services.’
Over the video, she wrote: ‘I know I am being ridiculous. But my heart is about to run to the door.
‘I’m doing well not crying in front of Ava but not so well crying all over the optician and the driver [laughing face emoji]
‘PS I promise I’m fine but doing the room lists, the shop for one and having them let you hug them loads suddenly, you’ll know how bitter sweet this is.’
Myleene shares Ava and Hero, 14, with ex-husband Graham Quinn. She is also mother to son Apollo, six, with fiancé Simon Motson.
Last month, Ava received impressive A-Level results, ‘four points off perfection’ in her English exams, according to Myleene, who claimed her daughter’s old school will be ‘using her English paper as a teaching facility.’
It reminded Myleene that her eldest was going to University in a matter of days and would be leaving home for three years
She said: ‘I then I just burst into tears and said “well three but my 18-year-old is going to Uni in a few days”. I literally just cried all over him which wasn’t ideal when he was fitting contacts’
She added: ‘Mums, how do you do this? How do you say goodbye to your first love. Is this what I’m going to do for three years? I literally want this for her but I don’t want it for me’
And Myleene uses her daughters’ intelligence – and their musical prowess – to swipe away that dreaded ‘nepo baby’ tag and insists ‘you can’t catch talent.’
The star said: ‘She’s done the piano for eight hours a day, she went to the Royal Academy of Music, she had to audition, they didn’t just say ‘Myleene Klass’s daughter is showing up, give her a place’, she had to audition, and that’s the point.
‘You could call my children nepo babies all day long but they can play Rachmaninoff concertos like the best of them.
‘To what end are you going to decide that that’s a nepo baby when they have worked and been on the grind for their own money and their own talent.
‘Both of my daughters work at the weekends and some people have said ‘you’ve put them to work early’ but I’m a working mother, I want them to know the value of earning your own money and feel that gratification, I earned this and I’m going to decide when to spend it.
‘I know they will be okay in life because they will always be able to make money, they have those tools and that was my job to make them have that but I can’t play the piano for them.’
The Classic FM presenter says she brought up Ava and Hero very much as a ‘single mum’ following her split from their father, bodyguard Graham Quinn in 2013.
Myleene made headlines in July by claiming their breakup was because she caught Graham cheating on her with another, unnamed celebrity, which sent social media into a frenzy with fans trying to work out the guilty party.
Myleene shares Ava and Hero, 14, with ex-husband Graham Quinn. She is also mother to son Apollo, six, with fiancé Simon Motson
Last month, Ava received impressive A-Level results, ‘four points off perfection’ in her English exams
Several female celebrities have been accused of being the culprit after Myleene teased that they are someone with a ‘family brand.’
Speaking on Paul Brunson’s podcast, Myleene said: ‘I walked in on him with a famous person on my birthday on a balcony.
‘I have made peace with that situation now but for a long time it was very difficult to see their life, not that I would wish that on a family, I don’t know I feel conflicted but my life literally broke apart very, very publicly and their life they have continued to build a family brand on it.’
And with the bodyguard being out of the picture while Ava and Hero were growing up, Myleene was keen to become a role model for her daughters.
She believes her work ethic has rubbed off on them as they’ve seen her in action and even nicknamed her ‘shark’ because her ambitions have no limits.
Myleene explained: ‘My daughter Ava did make me laugh, she said I’m like a shark, ferocious, go for what I want, out there, and she said no, if you stop moving, I think you’d die.
‘I liked that because she can see that I don’t just sit there and wait for things to come to me. I am a really impatient person, I’m pretty frenetic, I know how lucky I am that I have these opportunities and I want to grab them all.
‘My children have come from a grafter and a self-made woman from Norfolk, a mixed race girl who paid into herself and I invested in my own lessons and in my own books, just trying to enlighten myself and get that foothold, there’s no excuse for my children, they have seen it and know it can be done.
Myleene made headlines in July by claiming their breakup was because she caught Graham cheating on her with another, unnamed celebrity (pictured 2005)
‘I love the words of Cher – “Mom I am a rich man” – build it for yourself, don’t wait for someone to hand it to you.’
The former I’m A Celeb star, who famously capitalised on the moment she wore a white bikini while showering in the Australian jungle, continued: ‘It’s 10 per cent what you say and 90 per cent what you do, they can see I’m a grafter and so I can’t say, you go out and graft if I’m not doing the same.
‘In the same way I lose the power when they want to wear certain items and they throw it back at me and say, well I’ve Googled and I’ve seen you wear it. I tell them, if you want something, you go and work for it because that’s what I’ve done.
‘I want them to have that gratification and that pride in themselves, you can give too much.
‘My children already know that they’re not going to get massive handouts but they are going to get opportunities. I will get them in the room, no problem.
‘Like I said, you can call my children nepo babies and I’m sure people will but it is literally water off a duck’s back because my daughter was at the Royal Academy of Music and now has top grades, she has proved that she’s more than a nepo baby and my other daughter is about to do grade eight and you don’t do grade eight until you’re around 16/17 and she’s only 14. They are proving the world wrong and our supporters right.’
