Posted on 03/15/2024 6:51:48 AM PDT by Morgana
Singer Lily Allen appeared on the Radio Times podcast this week, where she claimed that her children have stopped her from having a successful career.
“I never really had a strategy when it comes to career, but yes, my children ruined my career,” she told host Kelly-Anne Taylor. “I love them and they complete me, but in terms of pop-stardom, they totally ruined it.” Allen has two children from a previous marriage — daughters Ethel Mary, age 12, and Marnie Rose, age 11.
Allen is currently married to “Stranger Things” star David Harbour.
Allen went on to say that she stepped back from singing in order to focus on raising her children.
“It really annoys me when people say you can have it all because, quite frankly, you can’t,” she said. “Some people choose their career over their children, and that’s their prerogative. But my parents were quite absent when I was a kid, and I feel like that really left some nasty scars that I’m not willing to, you know, repeat on mine.”
While it’s laudable that she recognized that her children need their mother, it’s also tragic that she considers her role as a mother “ruined” anything. Her comments also underscore a more widespread problem in a society that views children as an inconvenience and makes it difficult for mothers who want to care for their children while following their dreams.
And it seems little has changed in the entertainment industry since the “old Hollywood” days of Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Jean Harlow, and Joan Crawford, who were discouraged from motherhood and even coerced into abortions for the sake of a studio’s profit, with parenthood ‘penalty clauses’ even written into stars’ contracts. The entertainment industry seems largely hostile to the idea of parenthood and children — painting them as a hindrance to career success, even today.
Allen’s comments were not the first time that she has indicated that her children are an inconvenience; she previously admitted having an abortion and has been an outspoken pro-abortion advocate. In 2017, she posted on Twitter: “God, having an abortion is such fun, think I might get pregnant and enjoy having one while I still can, just for old times sake.” This, of course, sarcastically implies that abortion is neither fun nor enjoyable… and yet, Allen still supports the idea of women having the ability to kill their own preborn children.
In an Instagram post from 2022, she advocated for abortion for any reason, saying women shouldn’t have to justify killing their preborn children.
“I wish people would stop posting examples of exceptional reasons for having abortions,” she wrote. “Most people i know, myself included, just didn’t want to have a f****** baby. AND THAT IS REASON ENOUGH! WE DON’T HAVE TO JUSTIFY IT.”
In 2022, following the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, she dedicated a performance of her song, “F*** You” at Britain’s Glastonbury Festival to the SCOTUS justices in protest of the decision.
Allen could have used her platform as an opportunity to advocate for mothers and praise motherhood. Instead, her disparaging comments mean that her daughters now run the risk of believing that because of them, their mother was unable to have the successful career she wanted.
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Its not that hard not to get pregnant until youre ready.
Jesus , these folks are the worst.
Two more kids get to spend the rest of their lives trying to find normal.
A least they didn’t go to day care from the moment of birth.
I know a woman who didn’t even have angry dementia as an excuse. She told her very beautiful and loving daughter, a friend of mine, that she wished she had aborted her. The daughter was in her late 20’s and a newlywed when her abusive mother told her this. Horrific!
Did she win the “mother of the year” award?
My wife was a fast-rising manager in Fortune 500 company, and was head-hunted a couple times by other large corporations for much more money each time. She had trained in a special technical skill and had good connections to some very large customers.
When we unexpectedly got pregnant, she continued to work, but left her job shortly thereafter. Her boss was pissed.
She simply said “I don’t want to leave my child and there’s nothing you could offer me to make me do so”
I was so proud of her.
And despite a “ruined” career she is rich and privileged.
ANY child is worth FAR more than any career!
If you have a child your first duty is to the child!
I remember the wonderful actress Julie Newmar pretty much abandoned her career to devote herself to caring for her disabled child... that’s what a good Mom does!
She sounds like a complete misery. Feel bad for her kids. And the hubby too, you know it’s really all his fault.
Just another performing monkey and airhead.
There was nothing to ruin b/c nobody knows who she is or what her "career" was.
Lots of people don’t get to have showbiz “careers.” And popstars’ careers don’t usually last long. If Lily Allen was still playing the bratty chick at 40 or 50 it wouldn’t go over well. So she would have to reinvent herself anyway as she grew older. Why not take care of the kids while she plans her reinvention?
I'm not so sure her career wasn't scuppered by her third nipple.
Or more to the point, the fact that she posted photographic evidence online to prove she has three nipples.
And her lack of talent. Lots of talentless people make a living singing, but not many also have a third nipple. There must be a message in there.
Interesting that you should use Cher and Madonna as examples because both of them screwed up their kids pretty well.
While the word "ruined" is not one I would use her point is taken. You can be a parent and involved in your kids lives or you can be a "Me FIRST" type of person devoted to your career but you can not be both at the same time.
I really wish more parents would realize that.
Sounds just like Sinatra!
Little wonder she didn’t hit it big with such talent🙄🙄🙄
Left wing women are too stupid to figure it out.
And then tell at us to “trust the science “.
There is some of the best advice Lily will ever receive....if she would just follow it. Being raised in a Christian family by parents who were “untalented” in the conventional sense; mom stayed home & raised us up “proper” never made us kids feel unwanted or unworthy & I think that’s how it should be.
I was very fortunate too having Christian parents- who waited and prayed patiently for me to become saved- wouldn’t trade my upbringing for anything-
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