I bond with my three children in a very unusual way, reveals Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain
BAKE Off winner Nadiya Hussain bonds with her three children by cleaning their feet.
The TV host and author, 37, accepts their offer of the same — even though she hates having hers pampered.
She told a podcast: “Every Sunday I sit down with a bucket of hot water and they watch telly and we chat and I clean.
“I love doing feet anyway, so it’s a thing that I started years ago.
“I get to touch a piece of their body that isn’t in any way invasive, it’s just their feet.
“And I look after it, and I moisturise and I exfoliate, and I file them down.
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“I make them really pretty.
“As much as they hate physical touch sometimes, doing that with them really makes us feel closer — to the point where they’re, ‘Mum can we do your feet for you, because you always do our feet’.
“I hate my feet being done but I let them because they want to connect with me.”
Nadiya, who has sons Musa, 16, and Dawud, 15, and daughter Maryam, 12, with hubby Abdal, added: “It’s amazing how you can have a bond without actually talking and it can be from just touch.
“It’s a big part of my staying close to them.”