Lily Allen said WHAT about her babies?!

Yes, Lily Allen used the b-word – but it’s not what you think. In a new interview, the British singer and mother of two small girls said she came out of self-imposed retirement because she found life with her babies too boring.

“I didn’t get … I mean, I’m not bored by my children. Actually, I am, you know,” she told Hello! magazine. “The oldest one has only just started talking now. So it was really hard because you’re spending all day, every day, with two human beings that can’t communicate back to you.”

When she married builder Sam Cooper in June 2011 and had daughter Ethel that November, she changed her name to Lily Cooper and said she would be living the quiet life and focusing on her family. Daughter Marni arrived in January 2013.

However, she told Hello, “for someone like me, when my whole existence is about communicating and response and reaction, it was quite frustrating. I felt like I needed to get out and do something else with my time.” Hence the professional name change back to Lily Allen and a brand new album, Sheezus.

Getting the family she wanted had been a struggle for Allen, now 28, who suffered a miscarriage in 2008 when she was expecting a baby with Ed Simons of the Chemical Brothers. After she started dating Cooper she announced she was pregnant but at six months contracted a viral infection and gave birth to a stillborn boy.

At the time, all she wanted was to spend time at home with her kids. “I thought I’d be a really happy mum just sitting at home, playing with my kids, that was my dream,” she told France’s NRJ Radio.

“I love my children, but I’m a very impatient, busy person naturally so two babies, neither of them can talk, it was quite boring! Staying at home all day talking to people that can’t talk back.”

She’s always been outspoken but still it’s brave of her to say what a lot of mums sometimes think. Can you relate?

image of “Lily Allen” from Shutterstock

126 Comments

- - ChiWren said
  - 02 Jan 2024
    1:39 am
I can understand what she means. I was elated when my baby started smiling because I’d. Finally get some positive feedback. It will be great when he communicates further.

- - Ellen said
  - 24 Sep 2017
    3:56 am
We all need adult friends/partner and some good adult conversation in our life.
Personally I don’t think life with kids is boring. Even when they don’t talk, they sure communicate.

- - mom101628 said
  - 26 Jun 2017
    10:56 pm
Can certainly relate to this. We moved house and I was there with 4 children under 6 while hubby was still moving jobs for 3 months. No great adult conversation was just so hard to contend with. Had no radio or TV – just 4 littlies. Try it sometime and you’ll agree with Lily.

- - eviejude said
  - 15 Apr 2015
    11:12 pm
I can relate to some of her comments – it’s true babies don’t talk back – but I wouldn’t be bored staying at home to with two babies. Time goes so quickly, it won’t be long before they’re not babies anymore!

- - mom108638 said
  - 15 Apr 2015
    9:32 pm
Great mums know when they need time away…Lily Rocks.

- - GeoEllie said
  - 31 Jan 2015
    9:04 am
Totally get the sentiment, no shame in her game

- - queen bec said
  - 05 Jan 2015
    10:40 am
I do enjoy going to work myself now that my children are older because I like the interaction with people

- - mom94125 said
  - 03 Jan 2015
    5:14 am
no i would say that i got a little lonely when i only had the one baby and hubby was at work.

- - june11 said
  - 28 Dec 2014
    3:21 pm
She should have thought out a few things before she had kids

- - rachaelchara said
  - 16 Sep 2014
    1:21 pm
Honest and interesting. I like Lily Allen and her views.

- - Threelos said
  - 15 Aug 2014
    11:45 am
Love the way Lily Allen says what she thinks and doesn’t care what people think. Good on her, and she’ll probably be a better Mum doing what makes her happy.
- mom93821 replied
  
  03 Jan 2015 , 3:48 pm
  Love Lily Allen too! Brave to share her views too!
- - ginoula5 said
  - 12 Aug 2014
    7:11 pm
Lilly Allen is known to speak her mind, out loud and proud haha
- mom93821 replied
  
  13 Jan 2015 , 7:22 pm
  Absolutely; she is not afraid of sharing her thoughts!
- - nida saeed said
  - 30 Jun 2014
    7:30 pm
kids are brilliant at communicating. even without taking they give too many cues…my point of view

- - mom62532 said
  - 11 Jun 2014
    8:57 am
I think she is being really honest, and just because she gets bored occasionally, doesn’t mean she loves her kids any less. Now time spent with them will be more enjoyable for her, because her other interests and needs are met. It’s wonderful to hear a celebrity talk about life with kids in a real way.

- - christine_muller said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    1:53 pm
Good on her for being honest !! There truly isn’t any right or wrong with feeling this way !! I’ve realised everything all feeling good and bad are normal !! I wish more people to be so honest so people don’t have this false sense of parenthood being amazingly great all the time. It just isn’t !!

- - christial said
  - 31 May 2014
    8:57 pm
At least she’s being honest with how she feels..

- - mom57522 said
  - 30 May 2014
    9:15 pm
Only feel bored if we don’t get out and do something.

- - Gracelow said
  - 29 May 2014
    1:15 pm
I think it’s not a problem that she is honest about it. Very sorry to hear about the stillborn.

- - Happymum-2 said
  - 16 May 2014
    7:20 pm
great to hear that people can still be honest

- - twinmum2 said
  - 16 May 2014
    7:12 am
I feel sorry for Lily Allen. There are so many ways babies communicate before they can speak.
- trishoet replied
  
  29 Jun 2014 , 10:25 pm
  ^^ Couldn’t have said it better myself! I loved reading my daughters face and seeing her expressions to certain things. Plus I find baby language so cute but each to their own