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Ankur Desai

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1395 total appearances

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Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

I would have done anything to get the medicine for Khalil.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

The child is directed on camera to plead for help.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

I want to be a normal kid.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

I want to go to school.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

They were going to upload it to social media.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

Millions of dollars pour in, but the families never receive the money.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

He told us it wasn't successful.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

As I understood it, the video just didn't make any money.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

World of Secrets, the child cancer scam from the BBC World Service.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

Listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

Even if you've never heard of London's Lindo Wing, you might well have seen a photo of it.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

It's the maternity ward where Kate Middleton and before her, Princess Diana and Princess Anne have given birth to royal babies.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

And hours later, tradition is they pose with their newborn on the steps.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

But that image of an immaculately presented mother and child is a world away from many women's experience of childbirth.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

Our reporter Will Chalk has been finding out about a piece of public art designed to address that imbalance.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

She's called Mother Verite.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

She's a seven foot tall sculpture made of bronze depicting a woman wearing only a pair of disposable postpartum underwear over a still swollen belly, cradling a newborn child to her breast.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

The bodies of more than 40 real new mothers were scanned to create the figure and the very first place she was put on display was here at the Lindo Wing.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

Her message isn't lost on the mothers I speak to.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

I love to see a real woman because we're not all skinny, flashing back to our own body as soon as we pop the baby out.