I’M A Celeb and Loose Women star Myleene Klass has slammed the notion her kids are nepo-babies – insisting they’ll make their own way in life.
, who has three , daughters Ava, 18, and Hero, 14, with ex-husband Graham Quinn and three-year-old son Apollo with fiancé is determined talent and hard graft will ensure they never live off her fame.
Myleene Klass with her eldest daughter Ava
Ava is a talented musician just like her mum
Myleene and her kids Ava (top right), Hero (botton left) and Apollo (bottom left)
The Hear’Say singer and musician recently revealed her eldest Ava got top marks at school this summer, and won a spot at the Royal Academy of Music.
Myleene said the satisfaction of those achievments won’t be diminished by the .
She said: “She (Ava) has 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.
“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.”
Hammering her point home, Myleene told MailOnline : “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.”
It’s not only her musical talent that she’s passed on to her daughters.
Myleene has made an effort to watch the way she talks about herself in front of her children, in a bid to instill confidence in them.
She previously said on the Walk to Wellbeing podcast: “I’m really trying to practise the idea of putting the oxygen mask on yourself first so they can see that self care isn’t a bad thing, it’s an essential.
“I found myself saying things like, ‘Oh my God that was so stupid’, or ‘What an idiot’, and I realised my kids were picking up on that.
“I realised I can’t expect my kids to feel confident in themselves if I’m talking about myself like that. You can manifest it and make it seem real. You can believe you’re stupid when you’re not.
“So I think it’s also about how I treat myself in front of my children. I’ll tell them if I’m going out with my friends, because I need time with the girls. Or I’ll talk about a stressful job.
“I don’t hide anything with them. From total elation, I’ll let them see me celebrate that, right through to feeling stressed and emotional. They know it’s OK to see or feel those things.”
Myleene with her partner Simon and kids Ava, Hero and Apollo
Her daughters are talented musicians just like their mum 
