Hello and

I Weigh with Jimmy Lajamil, a podcast against shame.

And good grief, do we deliver that this week?

I think this is the most candid episode, or at least one of the most candid

episodes that we've ever done and it was just such a breath of fresh air and

my guest was so so excellent her name is Ashley James she is a known and

love TV personality in the United Kingdom for anyone who isn't familiar with her work.

But up until recently, I don't think she's ever really been given the chance or the platform to be taken seriously for her thoughts and opinions because she's incredibly pretty and has been known more of her aesthetic than her massive beautiful brain and I've been noticing her lately as she debates on television

over huge subjects to do with the kind of culture wars and feminism and trans

issues and poverty and all kinds of different things and I think feminism and

I think she's just such a wonderful communicator and and very refreshing in that she's not trying to

humiliate anyone she just comes ready, organized with fact,

the way she delivers her information as a precision strike, she's incredibly well

informed, she's calm, she's composed, she's kind and I think a good example for what we need to see more of when we talk about these hugely sensitive issues.

And so I invited her on this podcast this week to talk about one of the things that she speaks most beautifully

alongside the other things she speaks about wonderfully, which is motherhood. She speaks

about motherhood in a way that is so candid it genuinely takes my breath away and I mean that in a way of in the form of awe because she speaks publicly the way that my friends who are mum speak privately to me.

And she carries no shame around the difficulty of motherhood,

the fears of regret, the feeling of having to mourn your previous life, the fact that it's not just

all fucking roses and daisies and teddy bears and joys and smiles, she really goes into the true journey of the hardship that some people experience.

Now that's not everyone's story, but it is a fucking lot of people's stories and I think a lot of

women don't feel like they're allowed to speak about it and that's a ridiculous given the fact that I think at

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