Cosmetic surgery, diet drugs, bad parenting… Some things are better left unsaid – until it’s too late to matter any more.
Already a subscriber?At 38, Lily Allen is not old by any stretch of the imagination. But she’s old enough to observe that you can’t have a happy family and a brilliant career. In a recent interview she said, jokingly, that having children “totally ruined” her music career: “I get really annoyed when people say you can have it all because quite frankly, you can’t.”
Welcome to women telling the truth about their circumstances and not worrying about offending anyone – because they feel old enough to risk it.You may say, yes, but we’ve been doing this for years, talking about gender inequality and pay inequality and women being called ruthlessly ambitious when they do the work men do, and difficult when they’re not compliant.
Here are some of the lies women routinely tell until they get old enough not to .There are plenty of women whose husbands don’t realise that their faces are not the result of a refreshing walking holiday in Turkey. These women might tell their best friend the truth but no men must know their secret and most will never talk unless forced into a U-turn by a dodgy filling incident .
As for not liking babies, owning up to that does not go down well at any age. You can say you don’t think you were cut out to be a mother , but you’re wise to dote on your nephews and nieces. Hating kids is still straight into the Cruella box.
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