Alexandra Burke on the motherhood penalty and separation anxiety

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

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Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This is a biggie. The brilliant singer who has dominated the charts since her rise to fame on X Factor opens up about the painful reality of sustaining a career in music while raising a baby. This beautifully open chat digs into the primal, visceral, maternal state we find ourselves in post-baby and how that, well, works alongside work.

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:10.0	Welcome to this episode of Dirty Motherpucker.
0:18.3	I'm your host, Anna Whitehouse, the founder of Motherpucker,
0:21.1	and it is Pea Dog, Holster. P-thang. I love that. Polly, the Paisalwood. In the house.
0:28.2	In the house. There we go. Um, how you doing? Good Lordy, Lordy. I am very tired today. I've had two
0:36.1	nights where I have woken up at 2.30 in the morning and have not been able to get back to sleep. And so do you know what I've started to do?
0:44.2	What? I just get up and, you know, go about my day. Like a night owl.
0:50.5	Well, coming up, we have the absolutely brilliant Alexandra Burke.
0:54.8	And honestly, when Polly was interviewing her, she's so tired.
0:57.8	She had to fix her face in a frozen position.
1:02.5	She was just gurning.
1:04.1	And she asked me afterwards, did you see that I was like trying to keep my face fixed?
1:08.5	I was like, yeah, everyone did.
1:09.9	You literally looked like a rabid dog. It's one of those things. You can't, I mean, I don keep my face fixed. I was like, yeah, everyone did. You literally looked like a rabid dog.
1:12.8	It's one of those things.
1:13.8	You can't, I mean, I don't, you know, I don't want to be rude.
1:16.6	No, but whatever you were doing was worse.
1:18.8	Worst.
1:19.5	Okay.
1:20.2	Anyway, we've got Alexandra Burke coming up,
1:21.9	and she is going to be talking about the pain of motherhood
1:27.0	and being a successful singer-songwriter.
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