When Lydia Bright first walked into her beautiful Georgian house, she knew she had found her dream home.
She had been searching for a place to put down roots with daughter Loretta, who turns four in February, and this felt like another milestone for the tightknit pair.
A single parent since Loretta was born, influencer, entrepreneur and former reality TV star Lydia, 33, has had to balance motherhood with running her property business and social media career, as well as find time over the past year to become an author and lovingly renovate their 18th-century house in west Essex.
Inviting inside the property for this exclusive interview and photoshoot, Lydia tells us:
