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City Fund Manager pregnant with 8th baby

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speedymama · 17/01/2007 10:06

Just been reading about Helena Morrissey from a link a friend sent. At the age of 40, she earns a seven figure salary running a fund management company in charge of £32billion assets and she is pregnant with her eighth baby. I've tried linking the article but the story for some reason does not appear when I run preview so I have copied some of the article here.

"Mrs Morrissey is modest about her achievements, denying she is a superwoman and saying she feels 'lucky to have lots of children and a fulfilling career and not to have had to choose one or the other'. Then again, it's not every mum who has not only a nanny but also a husband who is a Buddhist monk and stays at home looking after their burgeoning brood aged between 18 months and 15 years.

'Although my maternity leaves are short, they are intense,' she said. 'Then it's a gradual handover to my husband - and we have a nanny - when I go back to work."

Well, imo, earning in excess of £1m per annum as well as having a SAHH plus a nanny really does help but at least she he fulfilling her need to work as well as procreate.

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maisym · 17/01/2007 23:12

women did this years ago - big families - except that - this mum has a well paid job & sahh & childcare - can't see what's so difficult for her or why it's thought 'news'.

MrsJohnCusack · 17/01/2007 23:54

oh i'm sorry - it's obviously not very interesting at all!

It IS unusual to have 8 children now for a start, I know they used to do it all the time but it's not the norm now and I am always interested to see how it works for people.
Frankly I'm more interested in the buddhist husband and the unusualness of the whole set up. I'm not actually jealous - I wouldn't like that life for myself - but I think lots of other people's lives are interesting and this life is not one you usually meet people leading. Not from the point of view of it being difficult or that she is superwoman, just that it is out of the ordinary.

And I like to read news that isn't depressing or about murders/violence - usually all we get in that line is farking celebrity 'news' which really is boring.

zookeeper · 17/01/2007 23:56

it is interesting and it is news - women who have 8 children are few and far between never mind one with a super-duper job

expatinscotland · 17/01/2007 23:58

Don't be jealous of her thinness. Just think about how her bits look after 8 children.

That'll cure ya!

NotAnOtter · 18/01/2007 00:08

get lost I have had five and I have a trim - quim

NotAnOtter · 18/01/2007 00:10

check out my babies please!!!!!

expatinscotland · 18/01/2007 00:12

Imagine the state of her beef flaps after that many.

zookeeper · 18/01/2007 00:13

oh dear I have three and my norks are gravitating towards my waist (or what was my waist)

expatinscotland · 18/01/2007 00:13

It's a good thing she's got the dosh for a designer vagina.

She's gonna need it and labiaplasty after that many sprogs.

MrsJohnCusack · 18/01/2007 00:15

gawd NotanOtter, I hope you're talking about your children there

zookeeper · 18/01/2007 00:19

aah! I thought it was some link I'd missed.

I've got a lot to learn

NotAnOtter · 18/01/2007 00:23

yes - sorry about any confusion

MrsJohnCusack · 18/01/2007 00:23

am guessing NotanOtter has set up a profile you can look at by clicking on her name - off to have a look...

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NotAnOtter · 18/01/2007 00:25

yes and i have looked at you Mrs JC and you are not a bitwhat i had expected...much prettier of course but great colouring...I think i had kind of envisaged Joan Cusack!

NotAnOtter · 18/01/2007 00:27

you should be able to see them

MrsJohnCusack · 18/01/2007 00:30

I have NO idea what anyone looks like
I am a tad pale in that photo - suffering from extremely low iron and No Make Up. I don't look like the undead really...

JanH · 18/01/2007 00:30

Oooh, MrsJC, Marjorie Morningstar! That was one of my favourites about 20 years ago

MrsJohnCusack · 18/01/2007 00:31

can't see it NAO - think you need to change your privacy settings to let everyone see it (or create a clique of mates)

MrsJohnCusack · 18/01/2007 00:33

oh I can't believe someone else has heard of that book JanH!
I read it every couple of years or so because it's really nostalgic for me and my mother.

JanH · 18/01/2007 00:49

I had a whole Herman Wouk thing going when we lived in the US - I haven't read MM for a long time now, must see if I can find it.

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