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Lily Allen Can't Remember How Many Abortions She's Had
Back in 2022, Lily Allen won widespread praise when she posted that women should not have to 'justify' having an abortion if they simply don't want to have a baby. The British star spoke out after she joined Olivia Rodrigo on stage at Glastonbury festival to perform her 2009 hit 'Fuck You,' which Olivia dedicated to members of the US Supreme Court who had recently overturned the Roe v Wade ruling that had protected the constitutional right to have an abortion for almost 50 to her Instagram story after her iconic surprise performance with Olivia, Lily wrote: 'I wish people would stop posting examples of exceptional reasons for having abortions. Most people I know, myself included, just didn't want to have a fucking baby. And that is reason enough! We don't have to justify it.''It shouldn't have to be said, and I think all these examples just play into the hands of the baddies,' she added at the time. And on Monday's episode of her podcast, Miss Me?, Lily opened up some more about her experience with abortions — revealing that she can't even remember how many she had before getting an IUD, which is a form of contraception, at age 23. Speaking to her cohost and best friend, Miquita Oliver, Lily said: 'I have an IUD now, I think I'm on my third, maybe fourth, and I just remember, before that was a complete disaster area. I was just… Yeah, I'd get pregnant all the time.' Miquita was audibly surprised and admitted that she didn't know Lily had had an abortion in the past, and at this point, Lily jokingly started singing to the tune of Frank Sinatra's 'My Way': 'Abortions, I've had a few, but then again, I can't remember exactly how many.' She then burst into laughter, confirming: 'I can't remember, I think maybe, like… I want to say four or five.''I remember once getting pregnant and the man paying for my abortion and me thinking it was so romantic,' Lily revealed, giggling again. 'I'll tell you how romantic it was, I don't think he texted me after!'Miquita said that she has had 'about five' abortions too, and agreed that getting an IUD in the form of the coil 'really changed' her life as she 'stopped getting abortions.''The pattern would be: Unfortunately, get pregnant, like, not want to be, have an abortion, then while I was sedated in said abortion, they'd give me a coil,' Miquita explained, adding that she 'can't quite remember' why she ended up getting the coil taken out each time. Meanwhile, Miquita admitted on Thursday's episode of Miss Me? that she used to feel 'embarrassed' to say that she'd had more than one abortion. Speaking to Lily, she said: 'I have had a few abortions, and I think one of them was coming up to about three and a half months, and that was really terrifying, I had no idea.' 'I felt really embarrassed to even say that I had more than one abortion, why the fuck should I be ashamed? I have had a few,' she at this point, Lily reiterated her 2022 message, saying: 'It actually irritates me, and I've said it before on the record. I've seen memes going around sometimes, on Instagram from pro-abortion accounts or whatever, whenever this conversation comes up, and suddenly you start seeing people posting things about extraordinary reasons for having an abortion.''Like: 'My aunt had a kid that had this disability,' or whatever, 'if she went full term it was going to kill her, so we have to,'' Lily added. 'It's like, shut up! Just: 'I don't want a fucking baby right now.' Literally: 'Don't want a baby' is enough reason.''One of the abortions I had, I hated the guy and had absolutely no interest in having his fucking child,' Miquita agreed. 'I was like: 'Absolutely not,' and as you know, throughout my 20s and 30s, having a baby wasn't really very important to me, and I'd have hated if I didn't have the option and the freedom to do what I needed to do for my own life.' Lily, now 40, has since welcomed two daughters: 13-year-old Ethel, and 11-year-old Marnie, who she shares with her ex husband, Sam Cooper. Miquita, now 41, is currently child-free, and has been open on the podcast about not being sure if she wants to have children in the future. Personally, I find Lily and Miquita's candid conversation super refreshing — let me know your thoughts in the comments below!
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
This Week's Biggest Train Wreck: Representative Nancy Mace. Congratulations.
Listen, there's a lot to keep up with in America right now, it is mostly embarrassing, and self-care dictates that we be judicious with where we focus our attention. I get it. But South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace is really on one this week, and if you've got a taste for trainwrecks, this is the one to watch. As you've probably seen by now, a constituent apparently confronted Mace last weekend in a South Carolina Ulta Beauty, asking her when she would be holding a town hall. This exchange of ideas did not go great. Now, in my experience, the first one to the 'fuck you' is never the winner of the argument. One does not produce a 'fuck you' from a place of confidence, there is no triumphant 'fuck you.' As much fun as it is to sing along to 'Fuck You' by Cee-Lo Green, you know the woman he's singing to isn't thinking about him at all. It's just not a great look, and to go there at an Ulta Beauty, whose mission statement is 'to be the most loved beauty destination of our guests,' is simply unacceptable. Also, 'You got Mace'd' is right there. Do I have to do everything for these people? It got worse pretty much immediately. Mace posted the exchange to her own X account, with this caption: 'Some unhinged lunatic, a man, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store, got in my face today. Dems are nuts. So I went off – and I won't be backing down. I hold the line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Try me.' Her calendar math checks out, but everything else here is incorrect. You saw the video. The guy comes off pretty well hinged. He maintains a steady five-foot distance from her face. Daisy dukes are denim by definition and much shorter than the seven-inch inseam we see here. But perhaps most critically, Ulta Beauty is so much more than 'a makeup store.' It's skin care, it's hair care, it's wellness. We're not going to be shady to Ulta Beauty. Not today. Can I be shady about Ulta Beauty real quick though? One opened up near my house a couple of years ago, and I popped in to pick up some oil cleanser. The woman behind the counter rang me up and asked if I wanted to become an Ulta Beauty Ultamate Rewards Club member. I said yes, and she asked my first name. 'Dave,' I said. She paused, looked up from her keyboard, confused. 'Say that again?' 'Dave.' 'Dib?' 'Dave.' 'Can you spell it?' 'Sure! D' 'Yes.' 'A.' 'E?' 'A. V.' 'B?' 'V. E.' She typed it in, shook her head. 'Huh. I've just never heard that name before.' I swear to God. And then she took all the rest of my information without difficulty, and now about twice a week I get promotional emails that say things like 'Daib, Here's 20% Off Your Qualifying Purchase.' ANYWAY. So on Monday night Nancy Mace hosted a town hall at the University of South Carolina. It was sponsored by Turning Point USA, the group that has those big conventions where the stage looks like WWE Royal Rumble and they dim the lights and the Jock Jams start playing and the pyrotechnics go off and the announcer tells the crowd to get! on! their! feeeeet! for, like, Reince Priebus. This was a lower-key affair, the stage dressing consisting of one fern, and Mace began it by requesting a moment of silence for Americans who have been killed by undocumented immigrants. A constituent asked if a moment of silence could also be observed for Pope Francis, who had died earlier that day. This also went Mace lays the whole game out: 'undocumented' is the same as 'illegal,' and 'illegal' is the same as 'murderous.' It's worth pointing out that the two people she mentions by name as people who were killed by 'murderous illegal aliens' were killed in automobile accidents with undocumented immigrants, and that the mother of Nathanial Baker said—at her own son's funeral— that she acknowledges the incident was an accident and that she's praying for the driver, irrespective of his immigration status. Mace is not Catholic, but I don't think you have to be to know this: what she says here is an inversion of the philosophy of Pope Francis in the exact same way that 'a minute of angry talking' is the opposite of 'a moment of silence.' You are correct in guessing that it gets worse from there. Mace's antipathy toward transgender people is well-known by this point. Last year, she authored a bill requiring transgender people to use the Capitol building restroom corresponding to their sex at birth, a bill that was aimed at exactly one person: Sarah McBride, the first transgender member of Congress. Mace regularly tweets out messages like 'Real women don't have Adam's apples,' and 'If you have to compete against women to feel like a man, you're not one,' the rare sentence that makes less sense the more times you read it. But what she does here is somehow more pathetic. She is told that a word she has used is derogatory, so she uses it again. Over and over. Taunting, like a fifth-grade bully. Vice signaling. And then posting it, as she has posted all of these videos, on her own verified social media accounts, as though they were wins. Here's the thing about selling your soul: after the transaction is completed, you're still alive. Bad things happen when you try to live as a human being without a soul. Football trophies wither at your touch. The Pope calls you out with his dying breath. Your own purse peaces out on you. Or you flip your wig at an Ulta Beauty, and then you share the video yourself. Souls are kind of important for successful living, it turns out. If you're going to sell yours, you should hold out for a price high enough so that you don't still have to spend your days putting on daily productions of The Ignorance Show for Twitter likes. The coffee cup of liberal tears has been bone dry for some time now. Say what you will about the transgender woman in that last video, but at least she got a fern out of the deal. Anyway, last night, Mace held a private town hall in a Beaufort, SC gated community, taking only pre-screened questions that were asked by a moderator. But if you were concerned that this highly-choreographed format may rob her of the opportunity for empty performative pettiness, well, you got Mace'd. What a jerk. Nancy Mace is having a rough week, and here's the worst part: it's only Thursday. You Might Also Like Kid Cudi Is All Right 16 Best Shoe Organizers For Storing and Displaying Your Kicks
