Sarah Cawood

The presenter says opening up about feeling left out and left behind in her career since becoming a mum has been liberating, not embarrassing.

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Her warm personality and quick wit have endeared Sarah Cawood to audiences since her days presenting Top of the Pops and The Girlie Show.

But in September, the 53-year-old bared a very different side to her personality when she posted a video of herself sobbing on her bed in a dressing gown.

‘I’m not normally a crier and try to feel happy with my lot in life,’ she says. ‘But that day, it was too much and I had to be honest about it. I try to be as real as possible on my social media and that means sharing not just the highs, but the lows.’

The caption to this moment of vulnerability was even more candid.

Cawood admitted that while she was healthy and had a lovely family, she felt lost after doomscrolling and seeing all her former peers ‘slaying it’. ‘It’s so silly to say that at 53, I feel jealous,’ she wrote.

‘And here’s the thing: I couldn’t be more pleased or proud of those women but I miss them... and I miss being one of them.’