Georgia Tennant, wife of actor David Tennant, has spoken candidly about the challenges of raising their six children, describing family dinners as a 'nightmare' due to their neurodiverse needs. The couple are parents to Georgia's son Ty, 23, who was adopted by David, as well as Olive, 14, Wilfred, 12, Doris, 10, and Birdie, five.
Appearing on the Five Brilliant Things podcast, Georgia explained that mealtimes are particularly difficult because some of the children prefer to eat alone and have different dietary requirements. 'We've got a lot of neurodiverse kids so a couple of them don't like eating around other people. They go and eat in separate rooms,' she said. 'Mealtime is like two and a half hours of me wandering around the house serving different people in different rooms.'
The 40-year-old added that the family rarely eats together, except at Christmas, and that dining out is especially stressful. 'Every now and again, we'll go to a pub and we'll all sit down and it's just a f****** nightmare. I just want to go home. They're crawling on the table, one's got headphones on. It's just like, no.'
Georgia, who had her first child at 16, said that positive early experience encouraged her to have a large family. 'That was obviously not planned, but it was actually so much easier when I was 16 because I didn't have any preconceived ideas about how difficult parenting was. He was really easy and lovely and great.'
She reflected on the diversity of her children's personalities, saying: 'I like how different they are. It seemed weird that two people can keep creating such a different smorgasbord of humans. And that's really fascinating.'
