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Is it easier to be a famous single mum like Fern Cotton, Lilly Allen or Kylie Jenner?

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GnomeDavid · 25/06/2025 07:26

I mean obviously in certain ways it is, they won’t lack babysitters or money.
But presumably they still will have dilemmas about when or if to introduce people, the worry about it going wrong or limited time? Surely they still dread going on holiday alone sometimes? Or think about if they will meet the one after two failed marriages?
Surely Kylie worries about whether Timothee will want his own biological children and how that will work with her existing children?
These are things which I guess money can’t solve.

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tilypu · 25/06/2025 07:31

It's definitely easier to be a rich single mum.

I don't think fame would make anything easier though.

Fratolish · 25/06/2025 07:34

Easier to be rich, harder to be famous I would have thought. I wouldn't want to bring my kids up in the public eye. Even if you manage to give them some privacy, everyone at their school etc will know who they are. How do you keep normality, have play dates, get to know other parents?

GnomeDavid · 25/06/2025 07:40

@Fratolishbut particularly around those very single parent specific issues of dating, being time poor, worrying about the impact on your children, feeling guilty needing time away from them to socialise, surely they are universal?

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Dangermoo · 25/06/2025 08:55

GnomeDavid · 25/06/2025 07:40

@Fratolishbut particularly around those very single parent specific issues of dating, being time poor, worrying about the impact on your children, feeling guilty needing time away from them to socialise, surely they are universal?

Would you want your parenting to be in the limelight, like theirs? They have different pressures.

Thepeopleversuswork · 25/06/2025 09:01

Not sure I understand your question: are you asking if its easier to be a rich single mum than a poor one? Yes obviously the answer is yes.

Are you asking whether its easier to be a rich single mum than a rich mum in a couple? Depends on your perspective.

Personally I far preferred parenting as a single mum to parenting in a marriage which was all about compromising with someone else who I didn't respect. But if you have a fantastic marriage where you're both totally aligned on parenting then probably being two rich people in a happy marriage is the optimal way to do it.

Very few people tick that box, but I guess that's the dream.

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