A few weeks ago I told my friend – a good friend – that I was considering having a third kid. The colour washed from her face, and before her filter could kick in she said: “Please don’t.” She corrected herself. “You don’t really want to, do you?” I realised she thought I was unhappy. She thought I regretted it all. She was wrong on both accounts, but I didn’t blame her for coming to such a stark conclusion.

That friend was not Chappell Roan. But the pop star is being pelted with the internet equivalent of soiled nappies for saying “all [her] friends who have kids are in hell” and “she doesn’t know anyone who’s happy with children at her age”.

The Pink Pony Club singer also said on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast that: “I literally have not met anyone [with young kids] who’s happy – anyone who has like light in their eyes, anyone who has slept.”

God, what has she done?

But I owe it to the one person besides Imogen Heap whose music can put my six-month-old to........

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