Peter Andre and wife Emily 'struggling' as daughter Millie reaches huge milestone

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4 days ago

It's been a big week for Peter and his wife Emily.
Peter Andre and his wife Dr Emily MacDonagh have opened up on how they are coping with their daughter Millie reaching a huge milestone in her life.
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The couple, who are parents to Amelia, Theo, and Arabella, with Emily also being stepmum to Peter's older children, Princess and Junior, have shared their feelings on the matter, writes The Mirror.
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Writing in his New! magazine column, the father of six said that it's been a big week for the family. He penned: "It's been a bittersweet time recently – Emily and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary this month, but it was also Millie's last week of primary school before she heads off to secondary school in September."
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This comes after Emily recently revealed on Giovanna Fletcher's podcast, Happy Mum Happy Baby, that the couple don't plan on having any more children, as she also opened up about her difficult third pregnancy.
Asked if there's a chance of them having more kids, she said: "It's absolutely cemented now but we always said it would be the last anyway. We don't have anymore bedrooms for starters so that's a good enough reason.
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"The car is full. We don't even have a seven-seater anymore because Junior and Princess can drive."
Discussing the family dynamic, she said: "They have a lovely relationship together. Even though the older two have their own lives, so they're busy and doing their own thing, when they see the younger kids, they're so sweet and they get the biggest hugs.
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"The age gap is so big that it makes it easier because they're not in competition with each other. Like the younger ones understand that there's a different set of rules for the older ones because they're grown-ups."
Elsewhere in the podcast, Emily spoke about her relationship with Princess and Junior and how important that is to her.
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"I always feel lucky that they've kind of accepted me into their family. And I think then, when we had Millie and Theo - and Belle as well - it kind of cements you even more as a family. But I always feel like, you know, I'm not their mum, and that's something I always have to make sure I tread carefully with. I always see it, I think I would see it a bit more like being a big sister," she said.
"Which, I don't know if that's the right way to look at it, but I think, you know, I always try and give them guidance, but I wouldn't overstep that. Like, I obviously try and support them like I would do with my own kids. I always try and be the same. I'm quite strict though, on my kids. That's what I would say to the older kids - it's lucky there's an age gap, you know?"
She added: "Because then you guys don't need to worry about, like, silly rules I have. I'm like, you guys can be exempt because you're older. The age gap is enough that my kids don't question why they're allowed to have the screens."
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