I abandoned my six young children for party life in Ayia Napa – I go clubbing in ‘slut dresses’ every night… men love it
MOST mums would be distraught if separated from their young kids.
But Amanda Moss reckons she sets a good example to her six children, after she left them and her husband to start a new life in Cyprus.
The 53-year-old now goes clubbing four nights a week, spends her days sunbathing.
And she tells The Sun why she doesn’t regret it for a second...
It's Midnight in Ayia Napa and wearing one of her “slut” dresses, as she calls it, Amanda Moss hits the dance floor at one of the party town’s many clubs.
The 53-year-old then spends the night flirting with a series of attractive men, before finally heading home to her maisonette at 2am, and crashing out.
Meanwhile, 2,000 miles away in Liverpool, her six children are asleep in bed at the family home.
It is five years since Amanda left her husband, four sons and two daughters — the youngest just six at the time — to live in sunny Cyprus and pursue a party lifestyle.
By day, the PR consultant earns £50,000 a year working on the beach from her laptop. By night, she goes clubbing.
She is unrepentant.
“I’ve always loved clubbing,” says Amanda. “I can dance all night and if I want to meet somebody, I can. I don’t give a s**t what anyone else thinks.”
Friends and family were horrified by her decision to leave her children — Saxon, now 24, Honey 23, Floyd, 21, Albany, 19, Darling, 16, and Ezme, 11.
“I had trolling on Facebook,” Amanda says.
“I lost all my friends, too. They didn’t say anything, they just stopped talking to me.
‘Sad and lonely’
“I haven’t spoken to my mum in 30 years and my dad left when I was three, so I didn’t get their opinion.”
But Amanda claims the person who has suffered most from her decision is . . . Amanda.
“It’s been really hard, especially for me,” she says.
“I did feel incredibly guilty about being away from my children. I was so scared they wouldn’t love me or understand me.
“Ezme was very young when I left, but I have never neglected my kids. I did this for me, but also for them, to set an example.”
Amanda isn’t the only one tempted by the lure of a new life overseas.
Two-thirds of Brits contemplate escaping the UK to live abroad, according to new research by banking app Bunq — with financial pressures and concerns over quality of life the main motivations.
Amanda quit Liverpool for Cyprus in 2020, after the breakdown of her 19-year marriage to husband Simon, 59, who has taken on the role of house husband.
“We hadn’t been talking,” says Amanda. “I was really lonely.”
But she had a Plan B. In 2008, she had bought a holiday home in the village of Liopetri, near Ayia Napa, where she would often retreat to get away from her unhappy marriage.
“I’d go to Cyprus for a week at a time and when I came back I’d be crying,” she says. “When I got to 48, I was like, ‘F*** this’.
“One of my older kids said, ‘Why don’t you stay in Cyprus?’
“That was all I needed to hear. ‘I may as well be sad and lonely in the sun,’ I told myself.
“Soon afterwards, Simon and I split up and I flew out to Cyprus for a few weeks for a break.”
In May 2020, Amanda — who owns and runs a lifestyle magazine — flew back to the Mediterranean island on a one-way repatriation flight because it was the height of the Covid-19 lockdowns and she had a home there.
Daughters Ezme and Darling were just six and ten, respectively.
Due to the pandemic and global travel restrictions, Amanda didn’t see her children for seven months.
But she insists: “We were on FaceTime every day.”
In November 2020, Amanda returned to Liverpool for three weeks.
She says: “My flight landed at 1am. The children all waited up for me and when I got in, they all rushed to hug me.”
The kids have learnt to cook and use the washing machine
Amanda Moss
Amanda flew back to Cyprus with Honey the following month and then, in February 2021, Darling and Ezme joined her.
The plan was for her two youngest daughters to live with her in Cyprus, but the girls missed their friends and three months later returned to Britain.
Living on her own, Amanda had the time to focus on herself.
“I got hair extensions and Botox, and I went to the gym,” she recalls.
“I’m 5ft 2in. I used to weigh 14½st and now I weigh 10½st. It took me about two years. I did it slowly and properly, eating less and exercising more.
“I was like a butterfly emerging from this fat, ugly body. Men started to take notice of me.”
She soon settled into a daily routine, waking at 6am to check emails before hitting the gym.
After lunch, she heads to the beach to soak up some sun.
“I do most of my business on the beach in a bikini,” she says.
Following a little rest in the evening, Amanda — who is also a body pump instructor — gets ready to hit her favourite clubs, Pirates and Castle.
“I wear what I call my ‘slut dresses’— very small, very tight — with trainers or flip-flops,” she says.
‘I have a ball’
“People say I look great and ask if I’ve had a boob job, but I haven’t.
“And I rarely drink, apart from the occasional vodka and Diet Coke.”
Amanda insists that, back home in Liverpool, her six children have adjusted to life without her.
“They’re really happy and well-adjusted,” she says.
“They’ve learnt to cook and use the washing machine.
“I call them daily and always say goodnight.”
About a year after Amanda arrived in Cyprus, she had what she calls a year-long “situationship” with her personal trainer.
“We met online, on my social media, and I invited him out to Cyprus.
He was the first man who had made me feel alive in 25 years,” she says. “I was feeling desirable — a sexy b***h. He was a fit guy.
“But I got completely heartbroken.”
Despite living overseas, Amanda says her family is taken care of financially. “I’m the main bread-winner,” she says. “I’m paying £2,600 on monthly bills in Liverpool.”
But she feels she is a victim of sexist double standards.
She says: “When the mother leaves, it is, ‘What a terrible mother you are, you’ve left the children’. But when the father leaves, nobody says anything.
“I’m a mother, but also Amanda.”
She says she flies back to Britain regularly to see her children and they often visit her in Cyprus.
“I try not to leave it more than eight weeks without seeing them,” she adds. “When the kids come out here, they love it. Honey, Albany and Floyd have been clubbing with me multiple times.
“When I’m back in Liverpool, I stay in the family home. Simon and I are still sort of friends. It’s an amicable split, because of the children. He is a good dad.”
Amanda says her children are supportive of her choices.
“I know they don’t hate me,” she says. “I know they love me. I will advise them and educate them, but that doesn’t mean I can’t have fun.”
FIND LOVE
Amanda, who is yet to finalise her divorce, hopes to one day find love again in Cyprus.
“I could pull a different man every night of the week if I wanted,” she says. “I’m just not interested at the moment. I haven’t had sex in over a year. I’m concentrating on myself, on being the best I can be. But I have hope I will fall in love.”
Amanda has written a self-help guide for women in their fifties, titled, You’re Going To Die So Do It Anyway, which she is self-publishing in the coming weeks.
She hopes it will inspire others to walk away from unhappy lives.
“It’s never too late to live the life you deserve,” she says. “I do what I want, I sleep with who I want — and I have a f***ing ball.”
Simon says: “I do work, I’ve had all sorts of jobs. I’m currently buying and selling at auctions. I’ve got used to all the nonsense, but it is true that Amanda’s the main contributor.
“My family didn’t troll Amanda on Facebook, that’s not true.
“Amanda does love the children, but what mother with six children leaves them?”
