Lily Allen considered quitting music and studying to be a lawyer after giving birth to her children.
The ‘Smile’ singer, who has two daughters, Ethel, 12, and Marnie, 11, with ex-husband Sam Cooper, admitted she felt “embarrassed” about leaving school with no qualifications and had considered changing careers at various times in her life.
“Whenever people start talking about where they went to college and stuff like that, it sends me into a spiral of self-loathing, because I’m uneducated,” she said on her podcast, Miss Me?.
“I left school at 15, I don’t have a single GCSE, I don’t have a single qualification and I’m embarrassed. I’m embarrassed.”
When her friend and co-star Mikita Oliver asked what it would mean to her if she qualified, she said: “I really don’t know.”
“I think if I had a degree, after I had kids, I might not have thought about going back into music or entertainment. I might have thought, ‘I’m going to be a lawyer.'”
Lily, who is married to Stranger Things actor David Harbour, previously admitted she thought having children was the end of her music career.
“My kids ruined my career,” she laughed as she told the Radio Times Podcast.
“I mean, I love them and they complete me, but in terms of my pop stardom, it’s totally ruined me.”
She also said she dislikes people using the phrase mothers can “have it all” when it comes to juggling work and family life.
Lily added: “It really pisses me off when people say you can have it all because, quite frankly, you can’t have it all.”
“Some people choose work over their children and that is their right.
“But my parents were hardly ever home when I was a kid. I feel like that left a deep scar on me. I don’t want to go through that again.”
“So I chose to take a step back and focus on them, and I’m glad I did, because I think they’re very well-rounded people.”
Lily Allen considered a career change after giving birth to her daughter
