If We Stopped Sugarcoating The Truth About Parenting, Maybe We’d All Feel Less Alone

Kate Hudson admitted sometimes she feels like a bad mum: “Some days I feel like I should win best mum award, and others I find myself doing strange things that don’t have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realise I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.”

And Adele, who suffered with postnatal depression after giving birth to her son Angelo in 2012, said: “It’s fucking hard. I thought it would be easy. ‘Everyone fucking does it, how hard can it be?’ Ohhhhh… I had no idea. It is hard but it’s phenomenal.”

And it is hard. Of course it’s hard. 

But if we just gave people more space to admit it, perhaps the pressure and expectation of having to be the ‘perfect Instagram parent’ would be eased.

And rather than jumping in and judging, we could let mums and dads tell the world that raising a baby – while gratifying in so many ways – is bloody difficult. Then maybe we’d all feel less alone.