Christine Brown has found romance again!
21.01.2023 - 14:27 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Christine McGuinness says she was "pretending to be someone else" during her marriage to TV husband Paddy.
The model and TV personality, 34, split from the Top Gear host in July. The couple have three children: twins Penelope and Leo, nine and daughter Felicity, six – but still live together and "still get on" because the kids all have autism and depend on a sense of routine.
But Christine, who was also diagnosed with autism last year, said she had been "faking" being a perfect wife during the 11-year-marriage to the 49-year-old ex-Take Me Out host. The Mirror reports that in a rare interview with Psychologies magazine she said had been "masking", or suppressing her autistic traits, all of her life.
She said: "I had become expert at playing a role to try to fit in. I was often alone and missed a lot of school before I left at 14.
"My mum entered me for pageants to try to help with my confidence and I'd morph into a different character to copy what other girls were doing, ending up playing somebody who wasn't me at all. I'd always wanted to be a wife so once I met Patrick, I fully went into 'perfect wife' mode.
"You know, 'I'll stay in, I'll cook and clean and make sure I'm the best wife I can be'. I was always pretending to be something else rather than simply just me. That's all part of masking."
Christine admitted she still "grieves" for her younger self and the life she had before she knew she had autism. But after previously thinking her kids might "never work, have a relationship or live independently", she is now looking forward to seeing what they do later in life.
Of her present life with Paddy, she said: "I want the children to be able to see Mummy and Daddy getting along so we still have family days out and live in
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