Kyly Clarke reveals 'the hardest thing about being a parent'

Since welcoming her daughter back in November 2015, Kyly Clarke says she’s enjoyed embracing every facet of motherhood.

But the 37-year-old wife of cricket star Michael Clarke admits there’s always challenges, and has revealed what she believes is “the hardest thing about being a parent”.

Speaking to Be, Kyly admits her heart sinks every time her daughter is unwell, as she understandably fears the worst, a feeling many parents would relate to.

“The hardest thing for me is seeing Kelsey Lee be sick,” says the interior designer.

“Even if it’s the smallest cold or rushing her to hospital. When something random happens that you just don’t think is ever going to happen to you and you’re not sure if it really is that or if it’s something else, that’s when everything in life just stops.

“You just go, ‘none of it’s worth it if you don’t have your health’, especially when it’s the health of your own child.”

It was back in February when Kyly and Michael rushed their daughter to hospital.

“It’s not all rainbows and butterflies. One very sick little girl and one very worried Mumma,” Michael wrote on Instagram at the time.

While the couple didn’t divulge their daughter’s condition, they later confirmed she was doing okay.

“At the end of the day if we didn’t have them [kids] or something happened to them, we’d be nothing,” Kyly tells Be.

“We’d feel nothing. We’d want to do nothing. I think that’s the hardest thing about being a parent.”

It’s this sentiment that led to Kyly being involved with bedding brand Sealy’s Bed Art 4 Kids charity campaign in support of Ronald McDonald House Charities, which provide accommodation and support to sick children and their families.

“Michael and I have always loved to be involved in charities and support and have a voice wherever we can,” says Kyly.

“The children are our future. That is the next generation so I wanted to really support the Ronald McDonald House and everything they’ve done over the years.

“I know they continuously need to keep raising funds to be able to do what they do and help seriously ill children and also their families.”

Kyly is one of the celebrities who has designed her own unique mattress design which the public has the opportunity to take home by purchasing a raffle ticket here before September 30.

The other well-known personalities involved are Sam Wood, Scott Cam, Leisel Jones, Charlie Albone and Juliet Love.

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