THERE’S the pounding beat of Oasis track, Live Forever, in the background as Kimberly Wyatt dances around the kitchen with her four-month-old daughter Willow in her arms.

“I think she instinctively loves music and rhythm because it’s so familiar to her. After all, she experienced it all the time she was inside me,” says the former star of girl band Pussycat Dolls and former judge on Sky’s Got To Dance. She even danced in the competition’s semi-finals last summer when six months pregnant.

For someone who started dancing aged seven, the glamorous, blonde 33-year-old - once dubbed the ‘flexi-cat’ in the globally famous Dolls because of her ability to raise her leg so high it went behind her ear – is still brimming with energy although her life has changed dramatically since she married model Max Rogers last February and gave birth to their daughter in December.

“Motherhood’s flipped my life upside down, but in such a great way. This is a new adventure and I love every minute of it. I am different now because having Willow’s made me feel really grown-up in a way I’ve never felt before,” she says.

Today, Wyatt’s in a reflective mood at her home in London and readily opens up about everything from her determination to create a “fairy tale” family life and give her daughter a childhood experience far removed from her own, to how TV presenter, Davina McCall is a “mother figure”.

“Although I realised marriage was the foundation of making a life together with another person, having a child takes things to a whole new level. It’s a completion I never knew existed and I fell in love with Willow straight away,” says Wyatt who was raised in Missouri, America and left home aged only 14 after winning a scholarship for a New York dance academy.

“All my life, I’ve constantly travelled the world and when I found my Englishman, I decided to settle here and work at family in just the same way I’ve worked at my career. I’m aiming to juggle the two - I’ll never give up dancing and singing - but Max and Willow are now my priority. It’ so lovely now she’s interacting with me and I want to bring her up as a little English girl, so I want her to call me ‘mum’ not the American ‘mom’.”

Her fulfilment in parenting is equalled by a commitment to move on from the pain of her past by providing a happy, secure environment. She’s previously spoken movingly of being molested at the age of three and being the victim of an attempted rape aged 17 when, following graduation, she worked as a dancer on cruise ships.

“I am determined to become a great mum because I had a difficult upbringing, now I get a chance to change that cycle,. That’s something I’ve thought about a lot,” she says.

“I think me and my mom were kind of unfortunate in a way because she didn’t have a mother when she was growing up and then she became a mother to me when she was very young and at a stage in her life when she probably didn’t really know how to be one.

I know it can be done because my mom made some really positive changes in her life for me and I’m hoping to make positive changes for my little one. Mom’s flown over and was thrilled to meet her granddaughter and we have a lovely relationship nowadays