Gold Coast woman Karina Irby has shared a stranger’s “in-your-face” reaction to her admitting she doesn’t plan to have children with her husband.
Ms. Irby, owner of the swimwear line Moana Bikini, opened up about the exchange in an interview. video upon tick tock More than 12,000 people have since watched it.
“I told a woman I wasn’t going to have children, and I wasn’t kidding, I could see the blood drain from her face,” the 33-year-old began.
“She didn’t understand why at all. We just started small talk – (she was) very friendly, (she was) a very nice lady – and then she said, “You seem to be married. How old are you?”
“When I told her my age, she said, ‘Oh, you’re fine.’ So you must have children.
“And I told her, ‘No, we don’t have kids.’ Actually, my husband and I don’t have kids.”
Irby said the woman leaned over and asked, “Hey, darling, what are you going to do with your life?”
“Of course nothing, because a woman without children has no life,” she jokingly says in the video.
“I say to her, ‘How much longer do you have?’
“Anyway, she was sipping her wine and looked at me and said, ‘Oh, okay. Don’t you think you’ll be disappointed later? Who’s going to take care of you when you get older?'”
“I would I never have I chose to have children so that they would take care of me when I was older. Also, just because you have kids doesn’t guarantee it. teeth By the way, when you get older, you will be taken care of.
“I just found it all very conflicting.”
Other childless women echoed the comments in Irby’s video, writing that their own choices often led to similar sentences.
“My husband doesn’t want kids either and getting all the weird looks and being asked the exact same questions is insane,” one person wrote.
“I get asked this all the time! How frustrated are you?” said another.
“Explaining to people that I don’t have kids is so exhausting!” a third commented.
“Even without children, we live full and happy lives! Continue to be your amazing selves.”
Irby responded as follows: Protecting yourself 24 hours a day, 365 days a year is more tiring than having a child. ”
The past 12 months have seen an increase in conversations about how society views motherhood, thanks in no small part to Elie Gonsalves’ efforts to dispel the stigma around women’s choice not to have children. is.
The Australian model and actor, who has five million followers on Facebook and Instagram, made headlines in November last year for comments she made. I posted a list Of all the reasons, 118 are why she doesn’t want a family.
We reflected on this list and the uproar it caused in an interview. Stella On Mother’s Day, Gonsalves said people are putting her in “the Cruella de Vil category and thinking I hate children.”
“But I’m so happy to be able to hug my nieces and nephews. I love cute kids. But there’s nothing that appeals to me about having children of my own. I don’t have anything,” the 33-year-old said.
“It’s like people get mad at me for saying I don’t want to live my life and go into defensive mode trying to change my mind.”
