Lynsey Addario

I mean, I actually had to kind of like fact check the conversation the following morning with another woman who was there.

And I was like, was I hallucinating?

Did that conversation really take place?

And yeah, I mean, it's one thing to think that's happening.

And it's another thing to have an editor actually articulate that.

Yeah, but I think that we have to sort of set up the fact that I became a parent after I had been kidnapped twice.

I had been thrown out of a car on a highway in Pakistan.

I had been in a Taliban ambush, an ambush by Iraqi insurgents.

I mean, the list goes on and on.

And so naturally, I was coming to a point where I was trying to sort of

navigate how my career would look moving forward.

It was right after being held captive for a week in Libya by Gaddafi loyalists that I got pregnant.

And so there was sort of a lot going on.

I had this clear path.

I became a parent and suddenly I stopped, you know.

So I think for me, it was always about calculating the danger and what is the assignment.

And so, for example, the war in Syria was really kind of blowing up after I got pregnant and when I had Lucas.

And I made a decision not really to cover it because there was so much kidnapping of foreigners and

And at that point, I had been kidnapped twice already.

And so I just thought, I cannot do this to my loved ones.