Myleene Klass celebrated a major milestone over the weekend as her daughter Ava left for university.
The star posted an emotional tribute as she drove her eldest child, 18, to campus and explained how the milestone felt even more poignant because she has raised her as a single mum.
Myleene has parented Ava and her younger sister Hero, 14, by herself after splitting from their father, bodyguard Graham Quinn in 2013.
Breaking down in tears in her latest Instagram video, Myleene took a thinly veiled swipe at her ex.
‘We have been through so much together, in particular the single mum journey where I often wondered if I could get her to this point alone,’ the proud mum wrote in her Instagram caption.
‘I never should have worried, we smashed it. The village scooped us up and today, my beautiful, talented, super smart babygirl started Uni on her terms.’
Myleene Klass celebrated a milestone over the weekend as her daughter Ava left for university, with the moment made even more poignant because she has raised her as a single mum
Myleene has raised Ava and her younger sister Hero, 14, by herself after splitting from their father, bodyguard Graham Quinn in 2013
Myleene made headlines in July by claiming her and Graham’s breakup was because she caught him cheating on her with another, unnamed celebrity, which sent social media into a frenzy with fans trying to work out the guilty party.
Several female celebrities have been accused of being the culprit after Myleene teased that they are someone with a ‘family brand.’
Speaking on Paul Brunson’s podcast, Myleene said: ‘I walked in on him with a famous person on my birthday on a balcony.
‘I have made peace with that situation now but for a long time it was very difficult to see their life, not that I would wish that on a family, I don’t know I feel conflicted but my life literally broke apart very, very publicly and their life they have continued to build a family brand on it.’
And with the bodyguard being out of the picture while Ava and Hero were growing up, Myleene was keen to become a role model for her daughters.
Writing after she dropped Ava off on Saturday, Myleene was emotional as she ‘returned to an empty car.’
‘I know I had every mother with me on the drive there and the way back. What a day. My car went into the garage so @ryansmith_51 (thank you) scrambled one together for me. We loaded it up, Air fryer, air dryer and Ava’s electric guitar and set off to her Uni.’
‘I loaded her into her digs with the rain lashing down, ferrying boxes and bags up stairs before putting up her fairy lights and making her bed (I washed her new bedding especially with extra softener so it could smell like home) before racing off to grab last minute supplies.’
Myleene made headlines in July by claiming her and Graham’s breakup was because she caught him cheating on her with another, unnamed celebrity (pictured 2005)
Breaking down in tears in her Instagram video, Myleene took a thinly veiled swipe at her ex. ‘We have been through so much together, in particular the single mum journey’
Writing after she dropped Ava off on Saturday, Myleene was emotional as she ‘returned to an empty car’
‘The feeling of getting back in the car, finally stopping, taking stock, realising, where it was previously piled high with her worldly goods and looking round at the empty passenger seat where she was car DJ on the drive up reverberates through your entire soul but oddly, so does motherly joy, satisfaction and pride.’
‘To you who have followed, supported and cheered us to this pivotal point, thank you. Mama’s dropping off this week, I see you. I’m driving home with you. If we do our job right, they can go and we can sit back knowing we did it.’
‘Proud of us all x’
Myleene recently passionately defended her children from ‘nepo baby’ accusations, insisting her two teenage daughters earn their success.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, Myleene says their talents are born from hard work and believes Ava and Hero will never have to live off her name because ‘they will always make money’ – crediting herself for giving them the ‘tools’ to do so.
And the former Hear’Say singer, who is also a mother to son Apollo, six, with fiancé Simon Motson, has already encouraged them to work and made them aware they will not receive any handouts from her.
Last month, Ava received impressive A-Level results, ‘four points off perfection’ in her English exams, according to Myleene, who claimed her daughter’s old school will be ‘using her English paper as a teaching facility.’
And Myleene uses her daughters’ intelligence – and their musical prowess – to swipe away that dreaded ‘nepo baby’ tag and insists ‘you can’t catch talent.’
The star said: ‘She’s done the piano for eight hours a day, she went to the Royal Academy of Music, she had to audition, they didn’t just say ‘Myleene Klass’s daughter is showing up, give her a place’, she had to audition, and that’s the point.
‘You could call my children nepo babies all day long but they can play Rachmaninoff concertos like the best of them.
The former Hear’Say singer, who is also a mother to son Apollo, six, with fiancé Simon Motson
‘To what end are you going to decide that that’s a nepo baby when they have worked and been on the grind for their own money and their own talent.
‘Both of my daughters work at the weekends and some people have said ‘you’ve put them to work early’ but I’m a working mother, I want them to know the value of earning your own money and feel that gratification, I earned this and I’m going to decide when to spend it.
‘I know they will be okay in life because they will always be able to make money, they have those tools and that was my job to make them have that but I can’t play the piano for them.’
