Chloe Madeley has admitted that she struggled to become close with her mother after she spent years trying to overcome health issues.

Opening up to host Georgia Hayton on the Made by Mamas podcast, Chloe Madeley shared how she struggled to form a close relationship with her mother, Judy Finnigan as a child, due to her ill health.

Chloe looked destined to follow her broadcasting parents into the world of presenting, as she landed her first role in television in 2007 when she hosted Big Brother’s Big Mouth, but has since gone on to pursue a career in personal training.

Giving an insight into her relationship with her mum whilst growing up, she said that she found it difficult to form a strong connection with her, after Judy started to struggle with her health shortly after giving birth.

She said: “It was really unfourtunate actually, after I was born she got really bad postnatal depression and it went undiagnosed for a really long time and then when she was finally on a good track to getting that sorted out, it turned out that she needed a hysterectomy.”

As the years went on the mother and daughter saw their relationship tested even further after Judy’s health problems continued to mount: “And she’d needed one again for a really long time and didn’t know about it and then when she finally had the hysterectomy it didn’t go very well, the operation didn’t go very well, the recovery didn’t go very well.”

While her relationship with Richard continued to flourish in her teenage years, her mum’s constant health concern would remain a consistent barrier to their bond.

She said: “And it was just kind of really weirdly and unfourtunaly for our relationship, kind of event after event after event that really all got in the way of us really bonding and by the time I was a teenager, my relationship with my dad was so solidified and my realtionship with my mum was just very murky and not really that solid.”

Chloe announced in October 2023 that she had split from husband and former rugby player James Haskell, with the couple having one child together called Bodhu.

As she fell pregnant with her first child, Chloe said she soon began to see eye to eye with Judy. She said: “As I’ve gotten older, like I said we’ve gotten closer and closer and then when I got pregnant it went from zero to a hundred in a day.

“The bond came thick and fast and very organically, it wasn’t forced or anything and now that Bodhi is born it just seems to be growing and growing and getting stronger and stronger.”

Last May, ITV announced that the public would be getting a rare insight into the Madeley family as cameras would follow them at home as Richard and Judy became grandparents for the first time.