
“Something bad happened,” Zoe Marshall, said on Mamamia‘s podcast The Baby Bubble. “I was a bad mum.”
The 32-year-old, who shares one-year-old Fox with her NRL player husband Benji Marshall, made the admission to her co-host Sean Szeps, explaining that she said something to someone which she had regretted instantly.
“I caught myself complaining about my child.”
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Acknowledging that not everyone would find her tale shocking, including Szeps, who is dad to 19-month-old twins Stella and Cooper, with husband Josh, Marshall explained what happened.
“[Fox] has been so clingy, on me, all the time; and it’s suffocating,” she said, describing her state of mind at the time.
Being a parent himself, Szeps understood that – but knew what the real cause of Marshall’s discomfort might be: the person whom she’d confided in.
“This is probably the worst part,” she continued. “It was someone that I didn’t even know well.”
Marshall said she wasn’t entirely sure why she confided in that person, and admitted she feels “guilty” about it.
“Then I tried to fix it, but I’d already said it. And then I just felt like a sh*t human. I feel guilty.”
But Szeps, who is a long-time personal friend of Marshall’s, noted that if the other person was a parent themselves, which they were, they would have completely understood.
“If you’re a parent, you immediately give every other parent the benefit of the doubt,” he reminded her.
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