For today's video I've put together a list of influential women who made the
choice to not be moms some were very outspoken on the subject while others
were more silent let's start with number 10 celebrity chef Rachel rate
I love eating and it's pretty much lunchtime and I haven't eaten yet so
that's why I'm starting with her first she says I work too much to be an
appropriate parent I feel like a bad mom to my dog somedays because I'm just not
here enough I just feel like I would do a bad job if I actually took the time to
literally give birth to a kid right now and then try and juggle everything I'm
doing oh and if you new to the channel welcome I'm Hannah the wife without kids
this channel is all about offering a supportive and non-judgmental community
for those who have made the choice to not have children
number nine author of Little Women Louisa May Alcott in her book Little
Women Alcott based the character of Joe around
herself now in the book Joe gets married but in real life Louisa never married or
had any biological children of her own but she did take care of her orphaned
niece in 1879 Alcott's younger sister Mae died a month after giving birth to
her daughter as she was dying Mae told her husband to send their daughter to
Louisa so Louisa took care of her niece for
several years number eight actress and comedian Betty White a very well-known
actress and comedian she has never looked back on her choice to not be a
mom well on my head I didn't choose to have children because I focused on my
career and I don't think as compulsive as I am I could manage both singer
Marian Anderson Marian Anderson displayed vocal talent as a young girl
and she is remembered for her contre alto voice she became the first African
American singer to perform at the White House and to sing with New York's
Metropolitan Opera she was married but never had children I wasn't able to find
any information online where she talked about why she made the choice to not
have kids number 6 actress Helen Mirren when asked about
why she's never had kids she says it was not my destiny I kept thinking it would
be waiting for it to happen but it never did and I didn't care what people
thought it was only boring old men who would ask me and whenever they went what
no children well you better get on with that old girl I'd say no go away
number 5 actress and political activist Ashley Judd in her 2011 memoir all that
is bitter and sweet she says I figured it was selfish for us to pour our
resources into making our own babies when those resources and energy could
not only help children already here but they could also transform the
world into a place where no child ever needs to be born into poverty and abuse
again my belief has not changed it is a big part of who I am Number Four French
artist Rosa bone heir Rosa was a painter and she focused most of her art on
animals she was one of the first female artists to reach international fame with
realistic paintings her first famous painting was called a horse fair and it
shows the Paris horse market and her second famous painting is this which I'm
not going to pronounce because my French is very shoddy and it depicts a farmer
plowing with oxen an interesting tidbit I found when I was researching about her
was that she actually preferred to wear pants when painting because she said it
was much more comfortable than a skirt which was very unheard of in her day she
actually got permission from the police department to be allowed to wear pants
Rosa was never married and never had any children she said it wasn't anyone's
business moving on to number three actress Tracee Ellis Ross she says I am
constantly asking myself are you making that decision for you or for someone
else the husband and the babies are the expectation of what's supposed to happen
at a certain point and people fall back on well that's the point of the human
species procreation and I'm like I think there are a lot of babies isn't that
part of what's going wrong here there are too many some people could be
working on making the world a better place or just being happy number two
journalists and social political activist Gloria Steinem
she had this to say about not having kids I am completely happy not having
kids I mean everyone does not have to live the same way and as somebody said
everybody with the womb doesn't have to have children any more than anybody with
vocal cords has to be an opera singer and this list would obviously not be
complete if we didn't have number-one actress Jennifer Aniston it turns out
that another wonderful photograph which I've had to sort of live with picture of
me with a bump and a circle around my stomach with an arrow pointing to it and
just the sort of disgustingly objectifying kind of way and I was just
fed up with it she says just because we all have the lady parts it's like get to
work as opposed to we use women do a lot of incredible things than just procreate
not that that is not great but we just get boxed in we have to stop listening
to this there are a lot of perks to not having kids and you can check out a
video about why right here and if you new to my channel check out this
playlist about why I don't want any kids thanks for watching and I'll see you
next time