I get Kelly's pain over friends' kids ..as a mum, parenting is SO boring

night and can play independently a bit." Now self-employed, Annabel says jobs like changing nappies are a million miles away from her life before becoming a mum.

- BY NIAMH KIRK

A MUM who sacrificed her globetrotting lifestyle to have her son admits that parenting leaves her feeling "bored".

Yesterday, The Mirror told how Race Across the World star Kelly Brook says being "blunt about not having children following life challenges such as miscarriages and relationship issues shocks some people, while others appreciate her honesty.

Now, travel writer Annabel Fenwick Elliott, 38, mum to two-year-old Jasper, says of parenting: "It's really hard to get anything done and I'm not very good at mindlessly playing with my toddler.

"I'm excited for when he can talk and have conversations, and when we can kind of role play together, watch movies and do all that stuff.

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"I think I do OK. I just find the days very long when trying to conjure up activities to keep him interested.

"Particularly when he was younger, chasing a maniacal tornado around the house and stopping him from killing himself all day on a loop was just very boring" And she understands why 45-yearold Kelly says: "I don't want to sit there watching people parent."

London-born Annabel, who recently moved to Mauritius, admits: "Other kids do gross me out. I'm squeamish about food mess. Yogurt hands, crumbs in the car seat... I've always just found it disgusting" When Annabel and her helicopter pilot husband Julius Scholtes, 31, decided to have a baby, it came as a shock to those close to her.

She says having a child was not in her plan until her mid-30s, when her "biological clock went off like an alarm all of a sudden".