Lily Allen insists ‘you can’t have it all’ after choosing motherhood over pop-stardom: ‘I love my children but they ruined my career’
by Aggressive_Plates
Lily Allen insists ‘you can’t have it all’ after choosing motherhood over pop-stardom: ‘I love my children but they ruined my career’
by Aggressive_Plates
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Lol her fame fizzled out years before she became a mother, people got sick of her fake cockney accent.
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Classic type of narcissist comment that.
People had enough of her way before the kids, her attitude reeked as well. People don’t mind so much cocky artists as long as they are good at what they do, she was just lucky.
This is clearly the case when you consider some of her peers (being generous):
* Madonna – 6 kids
* Beyonce – 3 kids
* Gwen Stefani – 3 kids
* Celine Dion – 3 kids
* Mariah Carey – 2 kids
* Jennifer Lopez – 2 kids
* Shakira – 2 kids
* Christina Aguilera – 2 kids
* Kelly Clarkson – 2 kids
* Britney Spears – 2 kids
* Adele – 1 kid
* Katy Perry – 1 kid
There was also that time she was offered 200,000 bitcoin as payment to do a concert. Not unreasonable at the time (edit: to decline) but looking back at it knowing what we all know now … (!!!)
Of course Lily everyone knows you can’t have children and be a successful singer, that’s never happened. Nothing to do with the fact you’re shit.
Implying she worked! Everything has been granted to her on account of her father’s connections. The damn frigging cheek.
Now imagine you weren’t rich as fuck, Lily, and you had to work with kids like the rest of us.
This is one of the reasons the birth rate is so low in places like Japan they don’t want to ruin their work culture/career
These comments are fucking mental. Yes Lily Allen is a bit of a twat but she clearly states she wanted to play a prominent role in her children’s lives. I genuinely don’t know how they ‘famous’ folk , footballers, actors and musicians aren’t missing out on so much of their kids lives.
The millions probably help like.
What will her kids think when they grow up and see her blaming them for ruining her career?
I’m not a fan of her music but I quite liked seeing her on quiz shows and that she was quite talented even if it wasn’t my taste.
Well done to her saying that “you can’t have it all” I think we all lie when we think we can have it all but clearly we can’t and have to decide on a path to take. She wasn’t being negative about her choice but actually being positive.
Nepo baby might not have the most balanced view of her career.
Now she gets to stay at home watching Hopper from Stranger Things paint 40k minis.
Some people get all the fucking luck.
A poor attempt at making her relevent again, I guarantee she releases a new album this year.
What you’re telling me when you have kids you want to spend more time with them and your millions of dollars than work! I’m shocked I tell you, shocked.
Her career isn’t exactly ruined. She got plays of the back of it. She has millions of followers on social media. Every time she releases a book sex toy etc people buy it. She doesn’t appreciate what she has.
I don’t think she meant that with malice. She’s simply saying you can’t have your cake and eat it too. And she loves her kids, but it course pursuing a popstar career wasn’t really on the table, implying she focused on her kids instead.
Doesn’t mean she hates her kids or dislikes them, still said she loves them. But ofc Reddit is picky with any sentence.
Of course you can have it all. No one ever questions if men can have it all.
Can you be a stay at home parent, sacrificing yourself to your child’s every whim *and* have a career? Of course not.
But it is possible to be a good, active parent and have a career.
It just takes work.
Okay, so I want kids but I actually know I want my career in the arts more so I’m not sure if i’ll ever actually have them.
But I think you shouldn’t phrase the sentence like that, the kids didn’t ruin her career. The system is rigged against taking time away to have and care for them.
I thought the only reason a gender pay gap exists is due to sexism, and having kids doesn’t effect your career/s
I saw her on (IIRC Jonathan Ross) last year and she seemed so desperate to talk about how she used to be much more famous and how her kids realised she was famous. I can see why you’d feel like that if your career had somewhat fizzled out but it just seemed very sad.
Other popstars have kids and still have a career. Some people just have their moment and some people can have a career and keep reinventing. She had her moment and could always again but she would need some good music and not that stuff she was doing in her later years
She still gets to sing nursery rhymes tho, so not all bad.
What a lovely message to leave your children…..
She could have said “having children ruined my careers” instead of THEY ruined my career