Juggling advice from the founder of JoJo Maman B?b?

[pebbles]

Belle - I saw Kirsty Allsopp being interviewed on BBC News the other morning and I thought it was so interesting. She was talking about them both working full time and the help - nanny, cleaner etc that they had - but then she also said that she was wearing the same dress as yesterday without any tights as she had her youngest in bed with her all night and therefore when she woke at 5am to get up for her interview she wasn't able to turn on the light and grabbed the first dress she could find but couldn't get any tights cos she couldn't see in the dark and she borrowed mascara from someone backstage. It really made me chuckle cos she is obviously very successful with what i can only imagine a nice salary but that doesn't mean her kids don't sleep with her in the middle of the night and she isn't as knackered as the next mother. I thought it was quite interesting

[womanofdulwich]

oohh pebbles, do you think that was the truth? or maybe a slightly edited version?;-)-

[pebbles]

womanofdulwich - don't burst my in awe bubble :))

ok yes, edited version, but she came across extremely believable (to me anyway!!) - and makeup did a good job making bags under her eyes ::o

[littleEDfamily]

Just caught up on this thread, and Belle, actually I read the Allsop interview in Good Housekeeping yesterday (I didn't buy it, ok, it was at the garden centre cafe!), and couldn't help but like her even more than I already did, not because I see her as some sort of role model necessarily, just because she doesn't seem as vain and boring as so many people in the public eye (ha - that's me being snarky now!)

Didn't hear see the interview you mention, Pebbles, but I think she/ you make a very valid point that you cannot pay your way out of many of the exhausting and highly unglamorous aspects of parenting. It must be nice to get out of the majority of them though!

I have to admit that despite 'sticking up' for the JoJo Maman founder (I'm sure she is inspirational to many and works her guts out) I wouldn't have tuned into her thinagme, as, like another poster, I find the whole 'wow it's a woman with a career and kids' thing a bit grating. I'd love, in my lifetime (or at least my daughters') for it to be no big deal to be a woman, a mother and a career in the same way it is for Dads.

[sb]

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