“My mam worked for 41 years. She was a single working mother. I think I always had that mentality of you can do everything. You can have your kid. You can be a good mother. You can work. She was very independent.”

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This note points to inherited resilience, and to the way one parent’s life can shape what a child believes is possible. Whitmore is reading her mother’s example as proof that care, work, and independence can coexist, even when life is demanding. It lands for anyone balancing parenting and a career, and needing permission to stop seeing those roles as mutually exclusive.

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About Laura Whitmore

Irish media personality, model, and actress

Laura Whitmore is an Irish media personality, model, and actress based in London. She first came to wider attention as an MTV video jockey in 2008, and later became known for presenting television programmes in the UK. Her work has included This Morning in 2014, Survival of the Fittest in 2018, and Love Island from 2020 to 2022. In 2020, she also became a team captain on Celebrity Juice. In 2023, she hosted Laura Whitmore's Breakfast Show and released the ITVX documentary series Laura Whitmore Investigates.

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