Lily Allen has admitted she became a mum because she was searching for unconditional love.
The Smile singer, who shares daughters Ethel, 13, and Marnie, 11, with ex-husband Sam Cooper, opened up about why she desperately wanted to become a mum, on her podcast, Miss Me?
“I think I had children for all the wrong reasons really because I was yearning for unconditional love, which I haven’t felt in my life since I was a child,” she said.
“Also my career was at such a high speed, you know high pressure and I’m a people pleaser and I felt like very overwhelmed by what was happening. I just didn’t get much respite and I felt like the one way to stop people hassling me, it’s not about me it’s about this other person that’s inside me.”
When her co-host Miquita Oliver asked if becoming a mum helped slow things down, she replied, “They did leave me alone, but I don’t think I really understood what I got myself into.”
Lily, 39, has previously spoken about the tumultuous relationship between her own parents. Her dad Keith Allen, left her mum Alison Owen when Lily was four years old. In 2021 Lily revealed she is no longer in close contact with her dad.
Since having her own children, she’s talked about how her career took a backseat once she became a parent.
“Some people choose their career over their children and that’s their prerogative, but my parents were quite absent when I was a kid. I feel like it left some nasty scars that I’m not willing to repeat on mine.,” she said.
Lily lives in New York with her second husband, David Harbour, 49. The pair married in 2020.
