Kelly Brook, 45, 'really happy' about baby decision after gran's 'biggest regret' comment

Kelly Brook has shared that a shocking piece of advice from her maternal grandma helped cement her decision to not have any children. The actress and model, who turned 45 in November, is loving her jet set lifestyle with her husband Jeremy Parisi.

The couple tied the knot in 2022 and are now living in London after Kelly sold her 15th-century Kent country house she bought in her early twenties. In an exclusive chat with the Mirror's Notebook magazine, Kelly revealed it's in part because of some incredibly frank words from someone special in her family.

“When I asked my grandma if she regretted anything in life, because that’s what you ask octogenarians, she said - very honestly - that her biggest regret was having children,” she says."

“I wasn’t expecting it, but she definitely said it! I think she felt that having children had taken up a lot of her life. I thought, ‘What an absolutely honest, incredible answer,’ and I think I needed to hear it. I was about 36 at the time and thinking, ‘God, am I ever going to have children? If so, maybe I should just get on with it now?’

"Then I thought, ‘Actually, I don’t think I want them,’ and hearing that somebody had regrets, and that I might not regret not having children, made me feel really happy about my choice.”

Her grandma’s honesty, she says, almost gave her permission to accept that being a woman without children doesn’t mean a life full of regret — in fact, it can mean the opposite. “You can change most things in life, can’t you?

"You can change where you live, you can change your relationships, you can get divorced, you can move on, things can change a lot. What doesn’t change is having children, because that’s the one constant thing — once you have children, you can’t