Mairead Ronan has admitted she didn’t think she’d find love again after her first marriage broke up when she was just 29.
The Ireland’s Fittest Families presenter welcomed her first daughter Eliza with second husband Louis Ronan in September and she feels very lucky to have found love the second time around.
The Today FM producer, who has 9-year-old son Dara from her first marriage, revealed that she didn’t think love or any more children were going to be in her future after her first marriage broke down.
“I was married before, it didn’t work out.” she said speaking on The Ray D’Arcy Show. “I have Dara from that marriage and he is the light of my life. I never thought I’d have another one. In fact, I never even thought I’d meet somebody else. Because you think to yourself ‘Who would want me with a broken marriage at 29 and a child’.
“But actually, when I met Louis and when we got really serious I thought, I might have another child. I didn’t want to even wish it would happen in case it didn’t but it did and she’s here and I pinch myself every day,” she continued.
“I’m delighted to get up and feed her at 3am.” she said.
The mum-of-two also admitted that choosing a name for her first daughter proved difficult, as her son had very strong opinions on the subject.
“I felt all along that it was a girl,” she said. “I had another name that I loved but I said it to Dara and he said ‘Oh please mum, don’t call the baby that name’, he hated it.
“And I’ve even sworn I won’t say the name out because it’s so awful and he wanted to call the baby Elizabeth. ‘If the baby is a girl we have to call her that’ he said. I thought that was a really old fashioned name for Dara to come up with and I said ‘Look Dara, we’re from the Northside, people might call her Betty’.
“I said ‘How about Eliza, we’ll chop it in half’. It was really Dara who had the idea of it.” she said.
We think she definitely decided on the right name!
