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Insiders say Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash are at loggerheads over how to juggle their hectic family life with her busy career
Juggling work commitments and managing a hectic household of five children while posting a stream of gorgeous home-hacks – it can sometimes seem like Stacey Solomon really is a super-mum. But last week, while Stacey, 34, revealed to fans on social media that she had attended several meetings before finally getting home at 9pm, the mum-of-five candidly confessed that she has been struggling, like so many women, with the idea of “having it all”.
“Trying to get the work/ family balance right but I don’t know if it’s working. Do you ever have those days where you just question everything?” Stacey said. “The juggle is real and everyone is trying their absolute freaking hardest to get it right… there’s no such thing as the right balance, there’s no such thing as the perfect home life balance… you’ve just go to wing it and take it as it comes.”
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However, a source tells Closer that Stacey’s husband, Joe Swash, disagrees. And after seeing how overwhelmed Stacey feels trying to keep their family, home and her career afloat, he’s begging her to slow down and accept help.
The insider says, “Joe gets frustrated with Stacey as she is literally packing her day too tight. Stacey is a workaholic and says it won’t be forever, but at the moment she has no free time at all. Some days Joe feels like Stacey will explode – there’s only so much one person can do... and then they row because she’s stressed to the max. Joe’s told her that of course he gets it when it feels like the wheels are falling off, but he’s told her that something’s got to give.”
Meanwhile, Stacey, who’s always been a dab hand at decluttering and cleaning – showing off her skills on her BBC show Sort Your Life Out – has frequently blasted Joe, 42, for his own domestic habits, claiming he “lives in a mess”. Posting on Instagram Stories last week about dog beds, the debate ended in Stacey quipping at Joe that he was “disgusting” and ordering him to do his own laundry.
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And this isn’t the first time the couple – who married in 2022 and share children Rex, four, Rose, two, and one-year-old Belle together as well as Joe’s son Harry, 16, and Stacey’s sons, Zachary, 15, and Leighton, 11 – have argued over the washing. Last January, Stacey was left furious after returning from a business trip to Paris to find that Joe had left all of the washing for her to put away – even claiming he washed all of their clothes for “her” benefit. Fuming about the laundry piles, alongside his beard hairs and toothpaste stains, Stacey said, “It’s not even the washing, the spit, the trimmings. It’s more the ‘for you’… I was
