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¹1 AM DEFINITELY A ONE-AND-DONE MUM'

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December 25, 2023

Chloe Mountifield, 31, lives in Worthing with husband Josh, 30, and their daughter Willow, five. 

- KATE GRAHAM 

¹1 AM DEFINITELY A ONE-AND-DONE MUM'

One thought got me through the exhaustion of early motherhood – never having to go through this again. An only child, I didn’t grow up around young children, and by my teenage years, the only thing I saw in my future was adventure. At 16, I was studying childcare at college and working as a childminder, which I loved, but it only made me more sure a child of my own wasn’t for me.

In January 2013, aged 20, I was on a night out with friends when I bumped into Josh. We’d met at college two years before and started chatting. I was clear with Josh that I didn’t want children, and it didn’t bother him. He proposed in Paris in February 2016 and we married in July 2017.

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