Vanessa Feltz, 61, married orthopaedic surgeon Michael Kurer in 1983 and they share two daughters, Saskia, 34, and Allegra, 37. He left Vanessa unexpectedly in 2000 and she learned he had been unfaithful, leaving her heartbroken.
Reflecting on their time together, the TalkTV host said that attitudes from outsiders saw her as a “joke” as her career was not deemed to be as “serious” as Michael’s.
Vanessa told Express.co.uk: “I was married to a surgeon and he was considered to be the important one with the serious career.
“I was considered to be a sort of joke.
“[I was seen as] just kind of showing off on the radio and on the TV, just kind of trivial, ephemeral, a nothing really.
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Vanessa said one of her girls is a “tax lawyer and lecturer at the Royal College of Law” and the other is a child therapist “helping the children who have been badly affected by lockdown to make a recovery”.
The This Morning regular continued: “I am very pleased to see the shift, very, very pleased.
“I see with my daughters, I see the way they interact with their husbands and the way there is equality in terms of childcare, in terms of household chores.
“Both the husbands are absolutely rooting for my girls in the way that my girls are rooting for them and no idea that one is superior in terms of importance or the superior earner.
“There is this kind of pulling together and this kind of community effort in a way that I never saw in my marriage.”
It comes after Vanessa suffered heartbreak for a second time following the end of her 16-year relationship with Ben Ofoedu.
Laying out some of the qualities that she is looking for in “Mr Right”, the former BBC star candidly explained: “Someone kind, honest and truthful, that’s all I’m looking for, and with a healthy intellectual curiosity about the world.”