{"id":192225,"date":"2025-11-21T08:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/192225\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:19:11","slug":"im-uber-mum-now-its-mental-karen-koster-on-home-life-with-husband-john-xpose-and-why-she-stepped-back-from-full-time-tv-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/192225\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Uber-mum now \u2013 it\u2019s mental\u2019: Karen Koster on home life with husband John, Xpos\u00e9 and why she stepped back from full-time TV work"},"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\">\nKaren Koster tells Kirsty Blake Knox about stepping back from her busy career to spend more time with her family, the shock of her mother\u2028passing away, picking out her future husband after seeing him on television and supporting a charity close to her heart\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barretstown ambassador Karen Koster at the launch of Barretstown\u2019s Christmas appeal. Photo: Brian McEvoy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ifkaren1.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)\">Barretstown ambassador Karen Koster at the launch of Barretstown\u2019s Christmas appeal. Photo: Brian McEvoy<\/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)\">\u2018I\u2019m in the taxi phase of parenting. I am \u2018Uber mum\u2019,\u201d Karen Koster says. \u201cYou go from changing nappies and doing feeds and now I\u2019m like, \u2018Who needs to be where? Who\u2019s got tennis? Where are we going for music?\u2019. It is mental. The lifts are crazy.\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)\">The broadcaster and her husband, businessman John McGuire, have three children together \u2013 Finn (10), JJ (9) and Eve (7).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karen Koster tells Kirsty Blake Knox about stepping back from her busy career to spend more time with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,2119],"class_list":{"0":"post-192225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-kirsty-blake-knox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115586713079209904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}