AN emotional interview between chat show host Oprah Winfrey and courageous mum Tobi Mills was broadcast to television viewers on Channel 5 today.

The interview was recorded in Chicago just weeks before Tobi, of Haldane Road, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, lost her battle against cancer.

The single mum, 43, hit the headlines after her ten-year-old twins Ashton and Lauren drafted an advertisement for a new mum.

During the interview Tobi admitted that preparing her children for her death was the "hardest job a mother can do".

She said: "I can prepare for me but I cannot prepare for them. We talk a lot, we laugh a lot, we cry sometimes too."

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