Millie Mackintosh has revealed she is looking into homeschooling her two daughters after they repeatedly question why they have to attend school.
The former Made In Chelsea star, 36, said she has been researching the alternative form of education after struggling to understand why she should force daughters Sienna, five, and Aurelia, four, attend school when she herself hated it so much.
Speaking on the Mum’s The Word podcast with Georgia Jones and Kelsey Parker on Monday, Millie also suggested both her daughters may be ‘on the neurodivergent spectrum’, citing her youngest daughter’s extreme pickiness with food and clothing as potential signs.
Her candid revelations come amid reports of her shock split from husband and father of her children Hugo Taylor, 39, following seven years of marriage.
‘My daughter – both of them – are just like, ‘Why do I have to go to school, Mummy? Why?” Millie said. ‘I’m like, I get it. I hated going too. So I feel bad sometimes.
‘I’m like, why do you have to go to school? And then suddenly I’m Googling homeschooling. I actually would love to homeschool them if it was what they wanted.’
Millie Mackintosh has revealed she is looking into homeschooling her two daughters after they repeatedly question why they have to attend school
Her candid revelations come amid reports of her shock split from husband and father of her children Hugo Taylor, 39, following seven years of marriage
The former reality TV star also admitted that she’s aware of the challenges it would entail if she took on the teaching herself.
She said she recently had a trial run with her youngest daughter because her nursery hasn’t re-opened since Christmas.
‘Something’s gone on. We don’t know. It’s being investigated, so we have had no nursery,’ Millie added. ‘I’ve tried to just reframe it and think I’ve had so much time with her this month.
‘I was like, it’s fine, I’ll just homeschool her. Whatever they’re doing at nursery, we’ll just do it at home. Then I was like, I can’t do that because I also need to work.’
She continued: ‘There’s been a lot of iPad, not going to lie, while mummy gets work done.’
Despite wanting to support her daughters’ preferences, Millie admitted: ‘Parenting is teaching me patience, but I definitely do not have enough patience to teach children.’
She went on to discuss her belief that both girls may be neurodivergent due to behaviour that she feels is unusual for girls their age.
Millie, who has spoken about her own Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD], said: ‘We don’t have a diagnosis, but I think Sienna maybe is [ADHD]. Sienna is me.’
She then detailed specific behaviours from Aurelia which have led her to believe she also shows signs of being neurodivergent.
‘My youngest, Aurelia, is so fussy in particular about things. And then I don’t know where that falls, but somewhere on a spectrum for sure,’ Millie explained.
She said she has been researching the alternative form of education after struggling to understand why she should force daughters Sienna, five, and Aurelia, four, attend school when she herself hated it so much
Amid the split the star headed to India last week on a solo wellness retreat designed to ‘heal’ the nervous system
‘She is so attached – and I know maybe this is all kids – but she gets so attached to just one thing, one particular outfit, and it’s that outfit every day for like a month.
‘And she will barely eat any food. Just one food – pesto pasta, that is like her safe food. That’s all she’ll really eat. That’s the only green thing that she eats.’
The mother-of-two also revealed that Aurelia is still using a buggy and becomes extremely distressed when she tries to phase it out.
‘I can’t get her to go out the buggy. I can’t get rid of the buggy. She just wants to be in the buggy,’ she said. ‘She gets so upset. She’ll literally lie on the floor and cry and cry until you give in and be like, okay, we’ll take the buggy.’
Millie, who attended £26,300-a-year Hanford Boarding school in Dorset, also reflected on her own school struggles, attributing some of her behaviour to undiagnosed ADHD – a condition she has only recently come to understand.
‘I found school quite difficult, so I was kind of wanting to rebel against anything I could,’ she said, adding that she believes her ADHD contributed to her being ‘the difficult one’ growing up compared to her younger sister Alice.
Millie has previously opened up on being a victim of cruel childhood taunts at the hands of bullies.
In 2013 she admitted she was picked on so much in her teenage years that it got to the stage where she would refuse to go to school.
Opening up in an interview with Fabulous magazine, she explained: ‘I was bullied to the point where I wouldn’t go to school.
‘I was skinny, had glasses and wore braces to realign my jaw.
‘I had full-on yellow hair after a home dye job and had really bad acne all over my forehead.
‘At school people used to call me names like ‘Sparrow Legs’ because I had such long, gangly limbs.
‘But you have to rise above that. My mum always told me to be confident. I learnt a long time ago how to deal with playground bullying. It’s a life lesson.
The revelations come as Millie navigates motherhood following her separation from Hugo, with whom she now co-parents.
Insiders have suggested Millie’s journey of self-discovery – including massive lifestyle changes after quitting drinking in 2022 – had widened the gap between the couple, who met in their teens and co-starred – as an on-off couple – in Made In Chelsea.
‘The last couple of years have been completely transformative for Millie,’ a source told The Sun last week. ‘She’s really come to understand who she is as a person – not a mother, not a wife but actually as herself.’
Hugo and Millie had fans hooked through the highs and lows of their relationship that started on Made In Chelsea
Millie has been candid about her struggles with addiction, revealing in her 2025 book Bad Drunk that she first turned to alcohol in her teens to cope with being bullied at school, a sexual assault, and social anxiety.
She also admitted to hiding her use of anti-anxiety medication Xanax from Hugo during their marriage, saying she took it ‘to deal with the hangovers… which also meant I could drink more’.
The reality star said she reached her ‘burnout moment’ two years ago, describing it as potentially ‘a breakdown’ where she would ‘lie on the floor crying’ as soon as she got home.
Since getting sober, Millie has become deeply invested in health and wellness – a passion sources say Hugo never fully shared, contributing to them being ‘on very different paths’.
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