EastEnders actress Jo Joyner has revealed that becoming a mother has given her an incentive to work harder. Jo, who plays Tanya Branning in the soap, admitted that she took a while to adjust after returning to work from maternity leave, but that she wants to work hard for her twins Freddie and Edie ,who are now 16 months old. "It's made it a bit harder to juggle," she said. "It takes a while, I kind of immersed myself in it for the first six months, I didn't really think about work at all. "Luckily my husband is incredibly hands-on so I got the chance to swap heads and find myself again. "I think that's the thing that most women would say. It's 15 months now and I feel like I'm only just coming out of some weird place that I'm in where you're remembering who you are and feeling ambitious again and thinking about what you want in life. "Actually I feel even more driven than I did before, but there's two little reasons to carry on." Tanya is about to marry her fiance Greg on the show, but Jo added that she hopes the character - who is already mum to Abi, Lauren and Oscar - is not planning to expand her brood. "I don't think I could face another year - I had a year of being pregnant on telly as Tanya, then in real life I was pregnant with twins, give me a break!" she said. "I don't think I could wear a bump, real or not, for another couple of years, surely."
