Louise Minchin was told to "find another job" by the BBC when she asked for more child-friendly hours.
Louise Minchin quit a job at the BBC when they refused to cut her hours
The 54-year-old presenter is married to investor David Minchin and has daughters Mia, 21, as well as 18-year-old Scarlett with him but claimed that whilst she was working on BBC Radio 5 Live shortly after the birth of eldest tried to ask the broadcaster to cut her hours but was told that would not be possible.
Soeaking on the 'Dirty Mother Pukka' podcast: “I was working on 5 Live, I was doing an evening shift, I was working on something called Sport on 5, I think I did it five days a week.
“I had to be in at 2pm or 4pm and I was working until midnight.
“My husband didn’t have a job at the time because he was setting up a company, I was the only person that was going to bring money.
“I went back, I may have still been breastfeeding ... I was just getting through, I was feeling very anxious and overwhelmed.
“I asked: ‘Could you maybe take my hours down a bit? Or could I maybe just do one day a week less?’
“They said: ‘No, you have to do that or you have to find another job.’”
The former BBC Breakfast host - who stepped down from the broadcaster's flagship morning programme in 2021 after 20 years on the sofa - went on to add that she walked out of the radio job because she felt the treatment was unacceptable and felt "brilliant" in doing so.
She added: "I did leave …. It felt brilliant. I thought this is not acceptable, and I’m not going to accept it."