“She knelt down and said, ‘It’s OK, you did your best,’ and I said, ‘That wasn’t my best, I’m much cooler than this’,” says Louise. “She stayed for 40 minutes while I was a loser.” Like every working mum, Louise admits struggling to juggle things. While seeing her books do well is amazing, the writing process generates “so much anguish” because of the time required “to do a good job” – a luxury the busy mum-of-two is severely lacking. Louise’s youngest daughter, Pearl, was born a year ago and appears in some vlogs alongside Darcy and Liam, Louise’s boyfriend of nearly three years – not forgetting their five cats. While some mumfluencers have been criticised for uploading content with their kids, Louise is very mindful about what she shares – and what she doesn’t. “If someone says, ‘you share everything’, I take that as a compliment because if you feel like I am, I’m doing it right. Actually, I’m not sharing a whole lot,” she says, confirming details including Darcy’s personal thoughts and hobbies, Liam’s surname, plus the intricacies of their relationship, are never featured. “I focus on the dayto-day aspects of motherhood, my job, my feelings and my personality because I’m making that choice to put myself out there. My children aren’t making that choice.” She says the biggest pressure of having a 2.4 million following is the impossible task of pleasing everybody. When Louise recently scaled back her daily vlogs to one a week, she received negative feedback from a disappointed few who accused her of becoming lazy. “I’m not as exciting as I was when I was 24, because I’m not 22 • happiful.com • June 2019
Even in your darkest days, don’t give up because you never know what might happen jumping around being silly any more,” concedes Louise. “I don’t want to share five days of my week. Sometimes I think: ‘This is a great time to enjoy in my brain.’” In March, Louise uploaded a vlog from Disney World in Florida titled ‘Disney World! Don’t Give Up!’, which finished with her answering fan questions from her hotel bathroom floor. In response to one, she referenced her turbulent past and urged her followers to keep going, however hard life may seem. “Even in your darkest days, don’t give up because you never know what might happen,” she echoes her poignant words as our interview draws to a close. “If I’d have given up when I was 15, I would never have had this career or two beautiful children, or burst open in front of Charles, or chatted to the Pope. I’ve got lovely dresses in my wardrobe and five cats. You never know what’s going to happen to you. It makes me cry to think how lucky I am.” Louise’s book, ‘Wilde About the Girl’, is available in paperback now (Zaffre, £7.99. Follow Louise on social media @louisepentland
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