Lily Allen: “I love my children but they ruined my career”

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Lily Allen insists 'you can't have it all' after choosing motherhood over pop-stardom: 'I love my children but they ruined my career' https://t.co/tsiSAXazTt
- Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) March 12, 2024
After being considered one of London's it party girls, Allen has admitted her 2 daughters have ‘totally ruined’ her pop career because she

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I don’t know who I’d rage to. My daughter is my WORLD. But I’m her primary caregiver, and within a few years may be her only caregiver, without much of a support network where I live; my family all lives on the west coast and even friends I have around Chicago live like an hour away because of how large the city is and their location in the suburbs. That means I can’t participate in professional associations the way I used to since I’d need to bring her and then I’d have to wonder if people would look at me funny. I actually was going to bring her to a presentation at a conference a couple hours away, but they changed the topic and it wasn’t worth me going. I was annoyed because I wanted to make a statement. 😂

Once in 2017 I went to a two-day training and there was a woman there with her foster child. She was a single woman and it was her first infant placement. She’d only gotten the baby within the week before and called the organizers and they told her to come. So during the meetings, the baby slept in his stroller. She hired a nanny for a few hours in the city we were in (which quickly got expensive, thus why it was only a few hours). She held him and he slept. We held him in the after-hours get together or dinner so she could eat. And it worked beautifully. My kiddo is only eight months but since that time I. 2017, it’s made me angry how much of an anomaly that was. How even if women are able to get the job they’re held back in other ways (which are ways that could of course help them get the job, either through networking or skill building). I chaired a committee that held a week-long training intensive and really wanted to offer childcare but I knew it would be a non-starter for insurance or whatever other reason. (And I found out about and had to kick out a guy who had been sexually harassing women in attendance so I suppose they ended up being enough to deal with.) I know that pro associations that I’ve been with struggle to find people to be involved, and I wonder if they’d be more successful if they had some events that were kid friendly, be they networking, fun, or content-related. Especially in a female-dominated field.