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Helen Skelton, Myleene Klass and Katie Piper led the stars in celebrating Mother's Day on Sunday, with loving posts toasting to motherhood.

Helen, 40, shared a hilarious post with a slew of photos with each of her three children climbing on top of her.

The presenter shares sons Ernie, nine, Louis, six, and two-year-old daughter Elsie with ex Richie Myler.

Taking to her Instagram, Helen posted selfies of her kids sleeping on her, wrapping their legs around her head and even squeezing inside her jumper.

Captioning the playful snaps, she quipped: 'Portraits of motherhood recently…. Personal space is overrated.'

Meanwhile, Myleene, 45, shouted out her mum on her Instagram Stories with a beaming selfie of the mother and daughter.

She wrote: 'Happy Mother's day Lola. We love you x'. 

Katie Piper also shared a tribute to her mum, with a string of adorable throwback photos from when she was a child.

In the caption she gushed: 'You made me the woman I am today, Happy Mother’s Day'.

The Loose Women star also shared a heartwarming quote about the hardships and importance of motherhood, saying: 'Oh mama'.

She added: 'She made me the woman I've become and I'm so grateful for her. Happy Mother's Day Mum.

'It's wild to look back on these and also see my own daughters in myself.'

Elsewhere Carol Vorderman took the opportunity to remember her late mother, Edwina 'Jean' Davies, who passed away in 2017 from cancer.

The TV personality, 63, shared several throwback photos together and reflected on how close her and her mother were after growing up poor.

Carol explained how her mum was the one that man launched her career on Countdown by forging her signature, to sign Carol up for the show behind her back.

She added that Jean had helped raise Carol's own kids and that she continues to live on through them.

Carol penned: Happy Mother’s Day ❤️❤️❤️ Some pics with my lovely Mum who died in 2017 surrounded by her family. The first photo is from Mother's Day 2017 just a week after she'd been diagnosed with terminal cancer. She died 2 months later.

'Mum and I were very close. She had to bring us up by herself in poverty and I was always her baby. My brother Anton and sister Trixie were older than me.

'When she remarried my “Dad” she separated from him a few times and would ran away (with me) a number of times, including once to Billy Smarts Circus when I was 9!!!

'Mum and I came as a team. When she left by "Dad" for good when I was 20, we were effectively homeless (I was in a BandB and she had a room in a house with students), so we moved north to Leeds where between us we could afford to live, and buy a little house in 1982 in Headingley.

'Three weeks later she saw an article about a new TV show being made In Leeds called Countdown and it was go out on a new TV channel called Channel 4....and they needed someone to answer the numbers game! She wrote to the producer as if she was me and then FORGED MY SIGNATURE!!!!  And that’s how I started on telly.'