{"id":412906,"date":"2026-04-23T04:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412906\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:45:19","slug":"niamh-oreilly-id-love-to-be-a-three-hour-mum-like-emma-grede-but-your-average-mother-does-not-have-a-chief-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412906\/","title":{"rendered":"Niamh O\u2019Reilly: I\u2019d love to be a \u2018three-hour-mum\u2019 like Emma Grede \u2013 but your average mother does not have a chief of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Skims co-founder Emma Grede likes to go off and \u2018fill her cup\u2019 after spending just three hours with her kids at the weekend \u2013 made possible by a team of nannies, chefs, cleaners, plus even a chief of staff\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emma Grede says she doesn't want to be wasting her time reading school emails. Photo: Jason Howard\/Bauer-Griffin\/GC Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f7e88e18-81a4-4e0a-ae35-7c16e42e4d9f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Emma Grede says she doesn&#8217;t want to be wasting her time reading school emails. Photo: Jason Howard\/Bauer-Griffin\/GC Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Emma Grede, co-founder of Kim Kardashian\u2019s Skims, says she is \u201ca max three-hour mum\u201d. The fashion entrepreneur told the Wall Street Journal Magazine that after being with her four children from 9am to noon on weekends, \u201cI am done with these four,\u201d after which she goes off to \u201cfill\u201d her \u201ccup\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cWomen are drained and exhausted,\u201d added Grede, while promoting her new book, Start With Yourself. \u201cAnd so, to put upon yourself that every waking minute is oriented around your kids is not a way to live,\u201d she said, insisting, \u201cwe need more people to come out and be honest\u201d about motherhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skims co-founder Emma Grede likes to go off and \u2018fill her cup\u2019 after spending just three hours with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77748,93,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-412906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-daily-features","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}