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Around The Way Curls

Ep 13. For All the Baby's Mamas, Mamas Mamas, Mamas, Baby Mamas, Mamas

Around The Way Curls

Antoinette Lee & Shanti Mayers

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Education

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we talk about motherhood. Antoinette explores the idea of becoming a mother and discusses what her ideal family looks like, and simultaneously comes to terms with the possibility that she may, ten years from now find herself childless and everybody’s favorite Aunt. Shanti shares her experience with an unplanned pregnancy, discusses how she manages single motherhood, and opens up about the beauty and pain she birthed from choosing to be a mother. Join us. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Hey, yeah. Yeah. I see a girl shanty and it's a sphity,

0:14.0

and sphoohoo,

0:16.0

oh my God.

0:19.0

I see a girl shanty. And it's Ansonette and you are listening to

0:26.0

around the way curls we are two Philly bred best friends who strive to produce

0:31.4

content that is authentic,

0:33.3

unapologetic, and exulting of the magic

0:35.8

we see in ourselves and in you.

0:38.1

Join us as we oscillate between love and light

0:41.2

and money and dixicks because duality is a thing.

0:47.0

Hi, how you doing?

0:52.0

Hi, Shanti.

0:54.0

This is Shanti in Antoinette.

0:57.0

Today we are talking about motherhood.

1:02.0

Mm. talking about motherhood and motherhood is a heavy topic for me. I became a

1:10.4

mother at 23 years old.

1:13.7

It was not a planned pregnancy.

1:16.1

It came as a bit of a shock to myself and many people.

1:19.8

And the circumstances, the relationship, the time of my life, it was traumatic for me.

1:31.0

And I think motherhood is traumatic for a lot of women for a lot of different

1:36.7

reasons aside from just being in relationships and bringing children into the world when they're not planned.

1:47.0

I know plenty of women who have had planned, you know, planned babies, solid marriages, the whole conventional setup, and had very traumatic

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