Thursday, 15 September 2016


Now then, as you may know if you read my column regularly, Jamie Oliver and I don’t always agree on things.

Whilst I wholeheartedly have gotten behind the removal of turkey twizzlers and the like from school menu’s so  that some children might have at least one healthy meal in their day, we did fall out slightly this year over his comment that breast feeding is easy despite the fact as far as I know he’s never actually lactated.

He has however since apologised for that statement and as a result my one woman comedy show “ the naked breast “ never got past it’s pilot episode .

So now, Master Oliver and I are back as bosom buddies once again, there was a slight slip when I suggested maybe he’d been indulging in a few too many of his slightly richer recipes when he appeared outside parliament in a fleecy hoodie that made him look chunkier than normal and implied he should practise what he preaches as after all ladies aren’t we forever being force-fed the fact that the best way to drop weight after the birth of a newborn is to breastfeed.

 However I was soon chastised for my fat shaming and we swiftly moved on with our lives which this week has seen Jamie and his lovely wife Jools welcome the fifth Oliver into their fold.

Baby boy, who has yet to be named but weighed in at the same amount as 16 packs of butter so we’re told, and mum are doing well and were allowed to go home that same afternoon but what has really got everyone talking is the fact that some of the younger members of the Oliver brood were allowed into the delivery room as he was being born.

Older sisters Poppy Honey and Daisy Boo aged 14 and 12 respectively, were granted entry towards the end of their mothers labour to cut their new baby brothers umbilical cord and now the world and its panel of amateur experts are up in arms about whether they should have been exposed to the “brutality of labour “in all its glory at all.

So I have to, controversially some might say, agree wholeheartedly that yes it was a good idea with the midwife’s consent for the girls to be quite so involved in the proceedings.

For maybe if more kids, girls as well as boys, were to witness firsthand the gory and bloody real life version of what pregnancy and having babies involves instead of the sugar coated Instagram filtered adaption some celebrity magazines and social media present to them as being their ideal dream to aim for then maybe it could achieve in getting through to them something that school sex education lessons have tried to do for years.

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