Frances Whiting

It was the day I came back to work and the woman behind the counter in the kitchen just looked at me and she said, now, listen, when are you going to have a baby?

And, you know, I just remember, I think I would have said something very noncommittal, like, oh, you know, hopefully one day words can hurt, right?

Yeah, and I remember interviewing Bindi Irwin sort of just when she was starting to talk about her endo.

And, you know, she had such trouble because of her endo.

And people were always asking that poor woman, you know, when she was going to have a child.

But, you know, I think the conversation has changed.

I may very well have asked somebody that myself 20 years ago.

But, you know, the good thing about getting older is we all learn.

So now I wouldn't in a million years.

I'd rather stick a poker in my eye.

But it's good that we're having better conversations.

So, yeah, my mum is 100 of us, Shirley.

I know I look too young to have a 101-year-old mother, but I do.

She's amazing.

She's very with it.

This is a big ad for reading.

She has read her whole life.

So she was taken out of school at 14 because she was a girl.

She didn't go to uni.

She became, it was like, do you want to be a secretary, a nurse or a nun?