David Mitchell’s wife Victoria Coren’s brutal child confession before baby at 51

David Mitchell’s presenter wife Victoria Coren Mitchell became a mother for the second when she was 51 and . The Only Connect host is married to David Mitchell and opened up saying she had no desire to have children in her younger years.

Back in November last year the now 52-year-old announced that she had given birth to June Violet Mitchell but had However, she first became a parent in 2015 when she had Barbara Elizabeth.

The television star has been open about her journey to motherhood and claimed that it was not always in her life plan. In 2012 she admitted that she had no desire to bring a child into her lifestyle.

Victoria who is a professional poker player confessed she never reached a point in her early to mid-twenties where she desperately yearned for kids. But did completely rule out the idea.

In an interview with the Standard, she said: I never had that point that a lot of my friends went through in their early to mid-twenties when they decided that they absolutely wanted children. But I am slightly obsessed with children,” she said.

However, she did say at the time: “I absolutely still might.”

The then-40-year-old also spoke candidly about how she would consider all her options when the time was right, and even considered adopting.

But she confessed that her job kept her busy which made it hard to start a family of her own, and involved “running around the world playing poker and staying out until five in the morning”.

In the brutally honest confession, she added that it was impossible to even “get a cat”.

However, she added that she didn’t mind being asked about reproducing, because “most women do want to be mothers, in a way that it isn’t the same with men”.

Victoria announced on and , which is formerly known as Twitter, last November to announce the arrival of baby June.

She was dressed in a long cloak which people assumed was a Halloween costume but instead, she donned the unusual look as nothing fitted her. Victoria explained: “Many people are assuming my tweet yesterday was a Halloween costume.

“Not at all; last week I had a baby and nothing currently fits me except cloaks. Luckily, Only Connect is a pre-record. Happy All Saints Day!”

The Times also shared the couple’s baby joy, with a statement that read: “On 26th October 2023 to Victoria and David, a daughter, June Violet sister to Barbara.”