Singer says children have “completely ruined” her music career

Lily Allen said her two children “complete her,” but the birth of their children “completely ruined” her music career.

The 38-year-old British singer has two daughters with her ex-husband Sam Cooper – eleven-year-old Ethel Mary and nine-year-old Marnie Rose.

When asked if she had to rethink her career after having her children, Allen joked, “Yes, my children ruined my career.”

“I love them and they make me complete, but in terms of my pop star status they have totally ruined it,” she added on the Radio Times podcast.

Allthe daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen, said she decided to step back from the spotlight to focus on raising her daughters after feeling her own parents were “quite absent” when she was growing up.

“It really annoys me when people say you can have it all, because honestly, you can’t,” she said.

“Some people put their careers before their children and that’s their right, but my parents were pretty absent when I was a child. I think that left some bad scars that I don’t want to repeat.

“I decided to take a step back and focus on them. I’m glad I did because I think they’re pretty versatile.”

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After quickly rising to fame in 2006 with the release of her single “Smile”, which reached number one in the UK charts, Allen took a break from music following the release of the album “Sheezus” in 2014 and released her latest album, “No Shame”, four years later.

She made headlines again in 2020 after news of her emerged Marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour Vegas

The singer, whose hits also include “LDN,” “The Fear” and “Not Fair,” has since turned to acting, appearing in the play “2:22 A Ghost Story” in London’s West End, for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award in 2022.

She later appeared in the black comedy The Pillowman and in 2023 played the role of Mel in Sky Atlantic’s comedy Dreamland about four sisters living in the coastal town of Margate in Kent.