Why Kelly Osbourne Says Having Her Son Sidney “Saved” Her

"It's scary arsenic f--k due to the fact that you don't privation to marque a mistake," Kelly Osbourne told E! News successful September 2023 astir becoming a mom to lad Sidney with Slipknot DJ Sid Wilson.

"It's each these small tiny things and these mistakes that you yet marque due to the fact that you can't larn unless you marque a mistake," she explained. "It's conscionable unfortunate that you person to bash it with a baby."

Kelly was diagnosed with gestational diabetes "well into my 3rd trimester," she told People in September 2022, "so it wasn't similar I developed it arsenic immoderate radical get it from the get-go erstwhile they're pregnant. I got it successful my 3rd trimester and basically, I thought it was thing that I had done wrong."

Her lone gestation craving had been sugar, especially saccharine drinks, Kelly explained, and adjacent though she tried to temper it by drinking fresh-pressed juice, "it inactive had a batch much sweetener than I needed."

Once she made purposeful changes successful her diet, she continued, she suffered from a sugar-withdrawal headache for awhile but yet mislaid 10 pounds, stopped having to deterioration compression socks and her tegument cleared up.

"I privation I had this benignant of inducement anterior due to the fact that I've ne'er been capable to instrumentality to thing a 100 percent the mode that I person been doing this due to the fact that I'm not doing it for myself," Kelly said. "I'm doing it for my baby. But I person learned—I can't adjacent statesman to archer you the changes that it's made."

What ma doesn't look astatine her kid sometimes and marvel, Hey, look what I made?!

"No, I cannot judge I person a baby," Kelly said on TODAY successful May 2023, talking to Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager ahead of her archetypal Mother's Day.

"I person a beauteous small babe boy," she continued, "and helium is my crushed for living, my crushed for getting up successful the morning, my full beingness revolves astir him. And present I recognize what the connection 'purpose' truly means."

"I person a caller recovered respect for moving mothers," Kelly wrote connected Instagram successful February 2023. "I took my archetypal occupation since having a baby. Having to permission him this greeting was 1 of the hardest things I person ever done. This time can't spell by speedy capable for me. I can't privation to person him backmost successful my arms."

She solved that occupation the adjacent day: "I could not permission him again truthful it's bring your #BringYourBabyToWorkDay," she posted to Instagram Story.

Just due to the fact that she can wrangle immoderate unsocial time, really wanting it is different story.

"My mum is trying to get maine to not beryllium truthful attached to the babe close now, due to the fact that I don't bash thing unless it has thing to bash with my baby," Kelly told E!, "and she's like, 'You person to instrumentality immoderate clip retired for you.' But I effort and bash it, and the adjacent happening I know, I'm sneaking retired the backmost doorway to spell location to beryllium with my baby."

While immoderate celebs big a existent bumpfest connected societal media, flashing bare bellies close up to their owed dates, Kelly was admittedly self-conscious astir sharing her travel successful existent clip with millions of radical (after announcing that she was expecting with the assistance of a fewer sonogram snaps).

"There are nary pictures of me pregnant," she replied successful August to an Instagram commenter who asked if she'd utilized a surrogate to present Sidney, "because I hid for 9 months due to the fact that I did not privation to get abdominous shamed."

She besides couldn't assistance comparing herself to the ladies who leaned into their gestation silhouettes in public.

"You tin deterioration truthful galore things that weren't considered due earlier and then Rihanna changed it for everyone," Kelly said connected Dax Holt and Adam Glyn's Hollywood Raw podcast. "Also, it made maine bittersweet due to the fact that I didn't get to amusement disconnected my gestation belly due to the fact that I virtually was a f--king moose and it was embarrassing."

Kelly admittedly wanted to get backmost into warring signifier arsenic soon arsenic imaginable aft Sidney was born.

"I'm going to beryllium honest," she told E! successful September 2023, "I felt the unit of, aft having the baby, to suffer the babe weight. It became my mission. I was obsessed with it due to the fact that I didn't adjacent privation to get brought into the conversation, I conscionable wanted to beryllium near alone."

Getting it done was "miserable," albeit worthy it for her successful the end. "I was bare each the time," she shared, "but I'm truly blessed with the results."

However, astatine 1 constituent she decided she was overdoing it.

"I was like, 'Well, I mislaid each the babe weight. Let's spot however acold I tin spell with it,'" she told Scheana Shay on the Sept. 8 occurrence of her Scheananigans podcast, "and past went a small excessively far."

Having been candid successful the past about setbacks successful her recovery, Kelly marked a twelvemonth of sobriety on May 27, 2022, a fewer weeks aft announcing she was pregnant.

"What a quality a twelvemonth tin make!" she wrote connected Instagram. "If you would person told maine 365 days agone that I would beryllium sober, happy, and astir to beryllium a mumma I would person laughed successful your face. Life is genuinely astonishing erstwhile you bash the work. Thank you to everyone that has supported maine connected this journey. I emotion you each truthful much!!!!!!!""

Referencing "the biggest combat maine and my baby's begetter person ever, ever, ever had, and astir apt ever, ever, will," Kelly revealed successful February 2024 that she and Sid program to springiness their small 1 a double-barreled past name. 

"I wanted our lad to person some of our past names, and helium wouldn't fto me," she shared connected The Osbournes Podcast. We had a immense fight. I consciousness that I was forced into doing thing I didn't wanna do."

While she compromised, Kelly continued, "after tons of eye-opening conversations and immoderate couples therapy, helium has seen the light. We are going to legally alteration our son's sanction to person some of our past names."