Niamh O’Reilly: I’d love to be a ‘three-hour-mum’ like Emma Grede – but your average mother does not have a chief of staff

Skims co-founder Emma Grede likes to go off and ‘fill her cup’ after spending just three hours with her kids at the weekend – made possible by a team of nannies, chefs, cleaners, plus even a chief of staff

Emma Grede says she doesn’t want to be wasting her time reading school emails. Photo: Jason Howard/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images

Emma Grede, co-founder of Kim Kardashian’s Skims, says she is “a max three-hour mum”. The fashion entrepreneur told the Wall Street Journal Magazine that after being with her four children from 9am to noon on weekends, “I am done with these four,” after which she goes off to “fill” her “cup”.

“Women are drained and exhausted,” added Grede, while promoting her new book, Start With Yourself. “And so, to put upon yourself that every waking minute is oriented around your kids is not a way to live,” she said, insisting, “we need more people to come out and be honest” about motherhood.