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¹1 AM DEFINITELY A ONE-AND-DONE MUM'
WOMAN - UK
|December 25, 2023
Chloe Mountifield, 31, lives in Worthing with husband Josh, 30, and their daughter Willow, five.
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.
This story is from the December 25, 2023 edition of WOMAN - UK.
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