‘My anxiety came off the charts’: Ellie Goulding says cuddling with her 16-month-old son Arthur eases her crippling panic attacks after her fears escalate over the ‘current global climate’
Ellie Goulding soothes her crippling anxiety and panic attacks by snuggling up to her baby boy Arthur.
The singer, 35, shares her toddler, 16 months, with her husband Caspar Jopling, 30, an Eton and Oxford trained art dealer, and she says he helps calm the frantic states that have “ dictated much of my life and career. .
Pop star Ellie’s anxiety heightened when she became a mother and she says it was made more “intense” by “the current climate and what is going on in the world”.
Calming influence: Ellie Goulding, 35, soothes her crippling anxiety and panic attacks by snuggling up with her baby boy Arthur, 16 months (pictured in 2021)
She explained to the Mirror: “My anxiety just went off the board. It was as if she had reached new heights of panic and fear.
“If you haven’t had a panic attack, it’s so hard to describe and explain, but it’s so overwhelming…
It’s kind of a survival mechanism for you and your child. You want to survive as much as possible for them and you want them to survive as well, so you kind of fight for both of you. It’s a lot.
Issues: Ellie says it helps calm the frenzied states that have ‘dictated so much of my life and career’ (Ellie pictured in New York this month)
She added that giving her son “cuddles and spending time with him” alleviates his problems, saying the joy his offspring brings him is “out of this world”.
Ellie recently opened up about becoming a mother, admitting it has “taken over everything” in her life after giving birth in April 2021.
The notoriously private singer detailed the lifestyle change while chatting with Ferne Cotton ahead of an intimate performance at the Biltmore, Mayfair for the Hilton Secret Socials this summer.
Protector: Ellie said her panic attacks were ‘kind of a survival mechanism for you and your child’. You want to survive as much as possible for them and you also want them to survive’ (pictured in July this year)
“Motherhood took everything, it influenced everything,” she told Ferne.
Noting a few sleepless nights, Ellie continued, “Obviously the first thing is like you just want to be with your baby, all the time.
“And then it’s just this whole new world of emotions and insomnia, a combination of that,” she explained.
But despite the change in pace, the Starry Eyed singer said the new chapter gave her more inspiration for music.
“I’ve managed to write a whole bunch of songs, in fact, it seems to have come even more naturally,” Ellie detailed.
She and husband Caspar tied the knot in a lavish ceremony at York Minster in August 2019, a year after announcing their engagement, and have been together since 2017.
The couple were first set up on a blind date by their mutual friend Princess Eugenie, and the art dealer popped the question in their country home on a jigsaw puzzle.
Her husband was educated at Eton and Harvard, and is the son of an aristocratic Yorkshire landowner and nephew of art dealer Jay Joplin.
Happy couple: The singer shares her toddler with husband Caspar Jopling, 30, an Eton and Oxford trained art dealer (pictured August 2019)
Advertising