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- TV presenter had baby Leo in January
- Returned to work in April
- Lifts lid on anxietes
Woods gave birth to her son, Leo, in January and returned to work, presenting the biggest games in football, in April. The 38-year-old, though, has now opened up on the anxiety she has felt since getting back in front of the camera.
Woods told the Telegraph: “I was very worried that I would be off the mark. I was worried that I would have lost some of my edge or sharpness.
“I kept forgetting names, which started during pregnancy. It’s a thing that everyone talks about. You don’t think you’re going to get it.
“You get a bit of ‘baby brain’ and it’s hard when you’re presenting because a lot of the time stuff is thrown at you and you don’t see it before it goes live.
“It’s live TV, so you have to react. You have to be sharp… I was nervous about getting little kind of brain drop-outs. But I surprised myself. I wasn’t awful.”
Woods admits she was also “nervous” about how she looked, but she insists that motherhood has changed her views.
She added: “You put on a lot of weight in pregnancy and you feel a little bit different.
“Of the things I used to worry about, my appearance probably would have been top of that list. But funnily enough that’s sort of taken a bit of a back step…
“When I came back I felt quite a level of acceptance of myself I don’t think I had before I had a baby.
“However you have your baby, however tricky or easy your pregnancy is, your body will change and you just accept it because you think there’s something much bigger going on. My body has done an amazing thing.”
Woods is currently leading ITV’s coverage of the Women’s European Championship. They will next air a quarter-final from the competition on Friday.
