Saffron Aldridge Quotes

I took a long period off to be a mom.

I took 18 months away to have my son, Joseph, and it was the biggest break I'd ever had in my working life of nearly 20 years.

I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

There are plenty of models who have children.

I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

I'm like any working mom.

I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be doing my constituency work - just with another baby in tow.

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

As a mom, that's at the forefront of everything in my mind, so I'm always trying to balance, whether it's bringing Violet to work or, the second I am done working, getting home to her.

I had my little boy, and I took three years off to have him and be a mom.

One thing I always want to clear up was the notion that I 'took time off to have a baby.' A lot people leapt to that conclusion because becoming a parent happened to coincide with film roles tapering off.

Sure Start transformed my life as a mum and allowed me to get back to work.

I've been travelling, returning home for promotional appearances, and juggling it all with being the mother of a five-year-old.

I don't neglect my kids. They are my priority. They come on shoots.

I want to be a mom. It's something that when I do have kids, I think I will retire from making music for a while.

Being a working mother means that you are always disappointing somebody.

That's a journey I've been on for many years. I mean, being a working mother, realizing that I have to make and find my balance.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

I'm almost a full-time mom.

I've sort of made up my mind that I have to do my career and I have to be a mother. These are my two responsibilities; of course the baby comes first.

In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.