Emma Grede has said her husband\u2019s wealth had nothing to do with her own success as a businesswoman.<\/p>\n
The Dragons\u2019 Den star, 43, who co-founded the denim brand Good American with Khloe Kardashian, is married to Swedish businessman Jens Grede, who launched the Skims clothing company with Kim Kardashian.<\/p>\n
Emma Grede, who has a net worth of approximately 400 million dollars (\u00a3297 million), insisted she would have been a success regardless of who she married.<\/p>\n
Speaking on BBC Radio 4\u2019s Desert Island Discs, she said: \u201cWhen someone says, \u2018She married well\u2019 or \u2018She took an elevator to the top\u2019, I absolutely won\u2019t have it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe definitely became successful in parallel to each other but there\u2019s no shortcut in this life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have been successful regardless of who I married, or if I ever married.\u201d<\/p>\n
The couple tied the knot in 2012 and are parents to Grey, 12, Lola, 11, and four-year-old twins Lake and Rafferty.<\/p>\n
Grede defended previously saying she is a \u201cthree-hour mum\u201d on the weekends, meaning she spends the rest of the time focusing on her own activities.<\/p>\n
The comments, made in 2016, attracted a significant amount of backlash.<\/p>\n
She told Desert Island Discs host Lauren Laverne: \u201cI love my children. I also didn\u2019t pop out kids and turn into some other version of myself.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t become me and then say, \u2018You know what, I want to stay at home and tradwife it\u2019. I don\u2019t. I love my kids but I don\u2019t love Legos.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I go out and work really hard and really love what I do, that doesn\u2019t mean that I\u2019m not equally a fantastic parent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grede said that she has \u201cloads of money\u201d and so has nannies who help out.<\/p>\n
The businesswoman said becoming wealthy was a priority for her from a young age.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cI had a fixation on, I didn\u2019t want to be poor. I had equated the fact that more money would mean more power for me, more decision-making, more freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grede also addressed the issue of asking the boss for a pay rise and said she never had difficulty attributing value to the work she did.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cWhen you\u2019re in a job where you see the money, meaning you bill, you see the flow of how it works, it becomes really obvious.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no problem attributing my value and my work into what was being made.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grede reflected on the criticism she has received for comments about working from home, explaining why visibility, proximity and opportunity were crucial to her career progression.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cWhat\u2019s worked for me is visibility, being in an office where people could see how I move.\u201d<\/p>\n
The full Desert Island Discs episode is on BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 4 from Sunday at 10am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Grede has said her husband\u2019s wealth had nothing to do with her own success as a businesswoman.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-581177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581177","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=581177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}