Zack Sharf Digital News Director Gwyneth Paltrow said on a recent episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that her 1999 best actress Oscar win for “Shakespeare in Love” led to an unhealthy identity crisis. Paltrow was only 26 years old at the time when she won the Academy Award against the likes of Cate Blanchett (“Elizabeth”) and Meryl Streep (“One True King”). “Once I won the Oscar, it put me into a bit of an identity crisis, because if you win the biggest prize, like what are you supposed to do? And where are you supposed to go?” Paltrow said. “It was hard the amount of attention that you receive on a night like that and the weeks following, it’s so disorienting. And frankly, really unhealthy. I was like, ‘This is crazy. I don’t know what to do, I don’t know which way is up.’ It was a lot. Not that I would give it back or anything, it was an amazing experience, but it kind of called a lot of things into question for me.”
'I love being childfree but people treat me with outright contempt'
16.04.2023 - 10:03 / ok.co.uk
Where once it was commonly expected for women to become mothers at some point in their lives, over recent years things have started to change. At a time when first time parents are becoming older, with half of women in England and Wales being childfree by their 30th birthday, more and more women are removing the stigma from being ‘childless by choice’.
While every person’s decision to not have children is an extremely personal one, it’s something that author Ruby Warrington has spoken openly about. Here, she delves into the rise of being childfree by choice and the reasons behind the phenomenon… “According to a 2020 YouGov poll, 37% of Brits never want children.
And – this might have you choking on your coffee – seven out of 10 Gen Zers (those aged 11 to 26) say they’d rather have a pet than be a parent! Of course the vast majority (around 80%) of non-parents are what’s called “childless-by-circumstance”, meaning they always expected they’d become parents, but things just haven’t worked out. But for me, at the age of 46, I identify as “childless-by-choice”, having known from an early age that motherhood was not for me.
And it’s a decision that has been met with a mixture of disbelief, curiosity and outright contempt. As I discovered when researching my new book, Women Without Kids, changing attitudes are reflected in UK fertility rates, which have fallen by roughly 17% in the past decade.** It’s a similar picture in the US, where 50% of women aged 30 and over don’t have children; the first time the scales have tipped into the negative since records began in 1920.
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