Commenting on former Olympian Victoria Pendleton, who says she won’t be pressured into marriage or family, Emma Palmer explains in the London
Telegraph why it can be the hardest thing to admit, saying: “Like Victoria Pendleton, I know how hard it is to trust your instincts and choose not to have children.”
She says that as a “fellow child-free woman”, she knows how hard it is to be honest with oneself, to follow one’s “gut instinct to not have children” — and “that, of course, is without the enormous pressure of being a public figure and one of the UK’s most successful female Olympians”.