I am no mother, and I won't be one.
As a woman of a certain age - and really, ever since I hit puberty and my baby-making parts were suddenly subject to public debate - I've been told over and over again that I will 'change my mind' about not wanting kids.
I know plenty of people who don't have children. And I also get a lot of people who say, 'Thank you for speaking out; my family don't understand why I don't want kids.'
Not all women want to have children.
I have chosen not to have children.
I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
I met older actresses who never married, never had children. That's not for me.
There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.
Stop baby shaming people to make us feel like there's something wrong with us if we don't want children.
I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.
I was that girl that was like, 'I don't want kids. I don't need kids.'
