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When I announced to a friend that I was leaving my husband, 12 years ago, she was very concerned for me.
“But what about the status of being married,” she asked, worried my reputation was about to take a battering becoming the dreaded ‘single mum’.
I dismissed her concerns… but, secretly, a seed was planted in my mind – and in my 30s, sometimes I was self-conscious when I had to explain to people I was a single mum.
Thanks, society’s expectations and prioritisation of couples.
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In the controversial article, Dara-Lynn talked about her struggles with controlling Betty s weight, and how she halved the portions of her daughter s meals, banned desserts and cut out certain bad foods from her diet. Sometimes Bea’s after-school snack was a slice of pizza or a gyro from the snack vendor. Other days I forced her to choose a low-fat vegetable soup or a single hard-boiled egg, she writes in the article. Occasionally I’d give in to her pleas for a square of coffee cake, mainly because I wanted to eat half of it. When she was given access to cupcakes at a party, I alternated between saying, Let’s not eat that, it’s not good for you ; Okay, fine, go ahead, but just one ; and Bea, you have to stop eating crap like that, you’re getting too heavy, depending on my mood. Then I’d secretly eat two when she wasn’t looking.