MUM KNOWS BEST
Who is Maura Higgins’ mum Sharon?
Maura has previously praised her mum as the 'strongest woman' in her life
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MAURA Higgins has cemented herself as the queen of reality TV, after proving to be a huge hit on Love Island.
Now the model is heading into the jungle for I'm A Celebrity. Here we take a look at her family and the life of her beloved mum, Sharon.
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Maura Higgins is a famous reality star who is the daughter of mum Sharon and dad Seamus Higgins.
Her parents are no longer together, and the I'm Celebrity star was raised by her mother.
Maura has two sisters - Becki and Louise - and a brother.
Fans first met Sharon when her daughter was on Love Island and she came into the villa as part of the "meet the parents" episode.
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Maura has previously hailed
Posting a picture on Instagram of herself and her mum, she wrote: "I am a strong woman, because a strong womumman raised me."
Close bond
Maura and Sharon are extremely close, and share a tight bond.
In fact, the model loves her mother so much that at Christmas she splashed out on a £38k Mercedes Benz as a present for her.
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Maura shared the emotional video of her mum breaking down in tears after she gifted her the expensive car.
Sharon also rushed to her daughter's defence when fans accused her of having cosmetic surgery.
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Speaking in 2019, the protective mum told : "She never got plastic surgery ever.
"The only thing she ever got done - and she never hid it, she had it up on her own Instagram - was she got some lip filler.
"Because she had quite thin lips."
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Maura opens up
In October 2024, ahead of going into the I'm A Celebrity jungle, Maura opened up her parents break-up when she was a child.
In an interview with Married At First Sight relationship expert Paul C Brunson's podcast We Need To Talk, she talked about a moment her mum collapsed at the family home, following her split with her dad.
Maura candidly said: "It was a very nasty break-up and a lot went on, like, things I would never want to talk about because I wouldn't want to be saying things about my mum or dad."
She added: "But now I don't have a relationship with my dad.
"When the break-up happened, my mum was trying to keep a roof over four kids and herself and we were all in school, it was very, very hard and I remember seeing my mum struggle, a lot."
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Maura continued: "She had a nervous breakdown, she collapsed in the kitchen in front of all of us and only for my older sister, she was a lot older at the time, she knew to like put her on her side and call the ambulance.
"I don't know why I remember this, but I remember, mammy has a rare blood type and my older sister knew to say that to the paramedics."
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