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🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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This week we have journalist and broadcasting legend Victoria Derbyshire in the studio!
Victoria tells Gi all about life as a mum of two teenage boys, blending motherhood with a hugely successful career, and how her 2015 breast cancer diagnosis inspired her to marry her partner of 17 years.
Plus Victoria speaks about the domestic abuse she faced in her childhood growing up with a violent father.
Trigger warning: this episode contains discussions about domestic abuse. If you feel this may be a difficult listen, please choose another episode.
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0:00.0 | Coming up on Happy Mom, Happy Baby |
0:05.0 | I absolutely pay so much credit to my mom who loved us unconditionally and did her absolute best to make up the fact that there was |
0:16.0 | another parent he wasn't good. |
0:18.3 | You actually ran to the police at one point? |
0:21.4 | I did. |
0:22.4 | I got into the delivery room at 3.15 and Joe was born at 326. It was so painful, it was so painful, it was so fast. It was |
0:32.0 | blumming hard. I wrote each of them like a goodbye letter. That was the |
0:38.4 | thing that was making most nervous. It wasn't losing a breast. That was fine, get the |
0:42.4 | cancer out. |
0:43.0 | Like what if I don't see my boys again? |
0:46.0 | This episode is sponsored by British Gas. |
0:50.0 | If you have no heating or no hot water this winter, British gas will be there the same day. |
0:55.9 | All you need to do is contact them by 11 a.m. |
0:59.6 | Bathtime, it's a sacred time of day, especially if like me you've got three boys or any children, |
1:06.0 | and they've been rolling in the winter mud all day long. |
1:10.0 | But then, we've all been there, the boiler's packed in. |
1:13.6 | What now? |
1:14.8 | I mean, let me paint this picture for you because I know it's going to be one that's so common for all of us. |
1:20.0 | It's been an exciting day and he managed to wrangle the kids away from their activities. |
1:24.7 | Everyone's agreed to have a bath. They're all in the bathroom. They're ready. The bath toys are |
1:29.2 | ready. The soap's ready. The warm towels are ready. It's looking great. You run the bath. Oh, it was a bit cold. |
1:36.0 | I'll give it a few seconds. You put your hand in again. Oh, it's still a bit cold. |
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