INTERVIEW
Former TOWIE star and single mum Lydia Bright opens up about her plans to grow her family if she doesn’t meet her Mr Right
She’s thriving as a single mum to two-year-old daughter Loretta and Lydia Bright says that motherhood has been the making of her – so much so that she’d love to give her daughter some siblings.
In an exclusive chat with Closer, Lydia says, “I really want more children, probably three, whether that be by meeting someone or doing it by myself.”
She adds, “If it got to a point where love didn’t happen, I’d consider the non-conventional way, like adoption or the sperm donor route. For me, the number-one goal is to have more children. I’ve come from such a massive family – my parents have four biological children, two adopted children, and they foster many more. I’d want the same household as my parents. I love the busyness and the chaos!”
PRESSURE
Loretta’s dad is garage owner Lee Cronin, who Lydia met in 2017. They first split around a year after they began dating, but reconciled and then Lydia discovered she was just pregnant. They split again when Lydia was 11 weeks pregnant and, despite a series of reconciliations and break-ups, the pair ended things for good shortly after Loretta was born in 2020.
Now Lydia tells Closer she’s in no rush to meet anyone. She explains, “Dating isn’t at the forefront for me. I want more children, but meeting someone isn’t always the answer. I’d like to think I will meet someone in five years’ time. I wouldn’t want to put pressure on it, but I’d like it to happen organically.”
Lydia came into the spotlight in 2010 in the first series of ITV2 hit reality show TOWIE alongside her on/off boyfriend James “Arg” Argent and good friends Mark and Jess Wright and Lauren Goodger. And Lydia says she’s still close with many the original TOWIE cast, some of whom are now mums themselves.
She says, “Whoever I was friends with on the show, that was 100 per cent authentic. Mark, James, Jess, Lauren – we all grew up together. Me and Georgia [Kousoulou] have known each other since we were babies.”
She adds, “I’m always with Lucy Mecklenburgh. We met on the show but we became such close friends. Me, Georgia and Chloe Lewis, we all still hang out with our kids. The kids will all grow up together too – the new TOWIE generation!”
Lydia has fond memories of the show and believes it helped her to get to where she is today. She says, “Of course there’s some parts where I cringe. I’m like, ‘Oh my god, what was I saying? What was I wearing?’ I had so much make-up on, I think if you’d have hit the back of my head it w
