Tess Daly: 'I threw cushions during pregnancy'

Tess Daly has revealed how she struggled with extreme mood swings during her first pregnancy.

The Strictly Come Dancing host felt "alone and insecure" when husband Vernon Kay was absent, and would cry easily while she was expecting elder daughter Phoebe.

"I'd never been a particularly confrontational person, but now that my hormones were all over the place I felt totally erratic... I was sad one minute, deliriously happy the next," she wrote in her pregnancy book The Baby Diaries, reported in the Daily Mirror.

When Vernon went to the US for work, Tess said: "It felt like he was a world away. I felt quite alone and insecure. I think I just wanted my hubby back and for someone to make me a cup of tea and tell me to put my feet up.

"When he was back and we had an argument about something and nothing, I would throw cushions around the house in unwarranted fits of anger, and then feel ridiculous, as I had to pick them back up."

Tess added: "I would cry at anything that involved children or small animals on the TV, so the news was out of bounds, as was daytime TV where the RSPCA seem to be big on advertising between Jeremy Kyle and Loose Women."

The Baby Diaries is out on February 18.