Louise Thompson has revealed she actively avoided social media over Christmas to allow herself to fully unwind after a painful year beset with health issues.
The 34-year-old Made In Chelsea star was in and out of hospital throughout 2024 as she battled health issues - leaving her at times apart from fiancé Ryan Libbey and their three-year-old son, Leo-Hunter. Taking to Instagram on New Year's Eve, Louise updated her followers to reveal she had delighted in taking time away from Instagram, Snapchat, X and more.
Sharing a batch of images of herself with her young family, the reality star wrote: "Gosh the best gift I gave myself this Christmas REALLY was to back the F off of social media for 7+ days…" Going into more details, she continued: "I took 7 days off social media for Christmas and it ended up being the greatest gift I gave to myself and my family. Here’s why…"
She then went on to list all the reasons she took time for herself - and the things she learned about herself, and activities that she enjoyed during the time she resisted uploading images and videos to her platforms. She typed: "I’ll admit it felt a little weird at first, which made me think even harder about the reasons why I needed to stick with it."
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Instagram / louise.thompson)Sharing adorable photographs of herself with her husband-to-be and son, she continued: "I cuddled my son for hours and hours and hours. We have had so many magical meaningful conversations together. I feel like I’ve taught him things too. I have had more patience to teach him lessons and a bit more about the game of life."
Explaining time to herself gave her mind space to breathe, she continued: "I want to love what I do again. When you’re doing something so much you lose the novelty. When I was recording the podcast a week ago I said to my team I’m freaking out because how can I possibly stay well informed and interesting and cultured and have anecdotes to add when I’m not consuming anything in between or taking time for myself to pause and come up with new material because I’m so damn busy working working working. Something I want to work on in the new year (or I’ll just talk about the struggle to find the balance honestly in the pod)."
And giving more insights into her cute family activities, she added: "We took photos on film - lol that we left our first film exposed in the light. Learning learning learning. We also got nice photographs printed out for albums and photo frames."
She then went on to list a wide range of activities that she undertook - including some of the more mundane household chores like polishing her silverware and hoovering. And share details of some charitable work, she added: "I gave loads of stuff to a much deserving children’s charity."
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