She woke up one morning and the words just wouldn’t come out.‘My mum didn’t know what it was or where it had come from. But it hugely affected my confidence – I became that child hiding behind my mum’s leg.
In fact, she explains, it was her mum’s desperate bid to help her shake her speech impediment that fuelled her love of being in the spotlight – so, in a roundabout way, she has that stammer to thank for where she’s ended up today. And not only as a parent – together with boyband star Marvin Humes, her husband of 12 years, she has three children: Alaia-Mai, ten, Valentina, seven, and Blake, three – but as the partnership ambassador for Marks & Spencer x YoungMinds, an initiative between the supermarket and the UK’s leading charity for young people’s mental health.
Experts have highlighted a ‘devastating explosion’ of untreated mental health issues among under-18s, urging the Government to ‘wake up’ to the worsening crisis. It’s something close to Rochelle’s heart. At 12, she was catapulted into the spotlight, performing as one-eighth of S Club Juniors – the all-singing-all-dancing spin-off act from pop group S Club 7.
Being famous was – and still is – a dream-come-true for the schoolgirl who was raised by her mother Roz, a retired paramedic, in a council house in Barking, East London, after her father left when she was a baby. It was, she says, an upbringing that was ‘happy, busy and full of love’, but not without its complexities.
But she still doesn’t speak to her father, although she insists she has forgiven him, and he doesn’t know his grandchildren: ‘He hasn’t ever reached out to me and I haven’t reached out to him.’ ‘Me and my sister looked completely different – she is white and I am half-black,’ she has said in the past. ‘I used to feel I had to explain everything: “This is my sister. I know we don’t look alike.”
Interviewed by the local newspaper at the time, somewhat prophetically she said: ‘I would like to be an actress, a dancer or a singer when I’m older. Or a TV presenter.’ ‘It was a good year or two, but it was odd – people would recognise me. My mum was the one who made me do it. She said: “You’ve got to work. This is life.” And it was actually the best thing she could have done.’
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