Sophie Ellis-Bextor gets candid about motherhood exhaustion but admits she may have a SIXTH child

She’s a talented pop star who’s a doting mum to five sons. 

And in a new interview, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, 42, got candid about motherhood exhaustion but admitted that she may have a sixth child and gushed over ‘family chaos.’ 

The mother-of-five shares sons Sonny, 17, Kit, 12, Ray, nine, Jesse, five, and Mickey, two, with husband Richard Jones, 41, bassist in The Feeling.

Exhausted: Sophie Ellis-Bextor, 42, got candid about motherhood exhaustion, admitting: ‘I am so close to being dead with how tiring it is!’

Speaking on the Lockdown Parenting Hell podcast, Sophie explained: ‘If I hadn’t had five I think I would have just had one. It was all or nothing.’

Discussing raising five children, the Murder On The Dancefloor songstress confessed: ‘I think I am so close to being dead with how tiring it is.’

Asked if she plans on having more children, Sophie mused: ‘It is tricky. My youngest is nearly three. So I am at that point when they’d normally be another one.

‘But I am 42 so it’s probably time to just watch them grow up now. It’s hard though. Tricky. I am not one of those people who can form the sentence: “I am done” – I’ve never been able to form the sentence. It is like my mouth goes… [silent].’

Family: The singer admitted that she may have a sixth child and gushed over ‘family chaos’

Discussing how her husband feels about them having so many kids, Sophie said: ‘He is pretty chill… Rich. I don’t think he instigated many of the last few to be honest. He just kind of went… ok then.

‘When I was little I was an only child until I was 8. Then my brother Jackson was born and I was absolutely obsessed with him and I think that sowed the seed. 

‘He [Jackson] was a fresh start and that’s something that’s hardwired in me. That babies are good.

Family of seven: The mother-of-five shares sons Sonny, 17, Kit, 12, Ray, nine, Jesse, five, and Mickey, two, with husband Richard Jones, 41, bassist in The Feeling

‘Having a baby on the hip is something I’ve done my whole life since then because I’ve got two sisters and three brothers who are all younger than me.

‘That family chaos is something I really like.’

Pop star Sophie and musician Richard got married in Italy in 2005, three years after they first met.

Mum and dad: Pop star Sophie and musician Richard got married in Italy in 2005, three years after they first met