Paloma Faith: Outspoken women, fertility, and MILFs
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Is the world ready for free women? Paloma Faith feels society grooms girls and women to make themselves smaller, to take up less space, and to dismiss their own needs... and she’s calling bullshit on it.
In this chat Fearne and Paloma discuss the exhaustion that can come with being a nurturer – whether you’ve got children or not. They also talk about how over-achievers are often preoccupied with being seen as everything – smart, funny, caring, sexy, independent – and why it’s too much for one person to take on. How can we learn to ask for and accept help from others?
Paloma opens up about why she chose to carry on working while miscarrying, and the pressure that miscarriage put on her relationship.
Plus, why does Paloma really hate the expression “you’ve got this”?
Paloma’s book – MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love, and F*ckery – is published by Happy Place Books, and is out now.
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains frank chat about miscarriage, so do take care while listening.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello it's Fern here popping in quickly before the show because I really want to hear from you. |
| 0:06.0 | I am forever grateful to you every single time you press play on an episode of Happy Place |
| 0:11.2 | and this show really is for you. So in the interest of doing |
| 0:16.3 | more stuff that you love and less of the stuff you're not bothered by, I would love |
| 0:20.6 | it if you took a couple of minutes to fill out a little survey for me. |
| 0:24.8 | The link will be in the show notes. |
| 0:27.2 | Your input on the content and the format and the guests and all those types of things is so important to help me and the Happy Place team |
| 0:35.6 | shape the future of Happy Place. So just click on the link in the show notes to |
| 0:40.6 | share all your thoughts and musings. I appreciate you loads. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, the show that critiques the |
| 0:50.3 | social constructs are expected to follow. |
| 0:53.0 | Today I'm chatting to Paloma Faith. |
| 0:55.0 | We were sort of sold this dream of like the feminist dream. |
| 0:59.0 | You can have it all and the realities you can't have it all |
| 1:02.0 | and you're sort of around like a heter normative guy who thinks that just |
| 1:07.1 | contributing to finances is as much as what you're doing and it isn't because |
| 1:11.7 | knowing what it's like to contribute to all the finances in my case and also the silent emotional load of what you're doing to be a parent is overwhelming and too demanding and I just |
| 1:25.8 | think that society's very complacent and takes its mothers for granted. |
| 1:31.3 | Paloma was raised by a single mom who made sure she knew that her gender should never inhibit |
| 1:37.2 | her ambition. |
| 1:38.7 | And she really ran with that advice. |
| 1:41.1 | Paloma is the ultimate overachieveriever she's got a multitude of qualifications |
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