{"id":34660,"date":"2020-10-03T09:43:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T08:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=34660"},"modified":"2020-10-05T10:27:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T09:27:58","slug":"express-new-toyah-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/express-new-toyah-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Express: New Toyah Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-34683 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/express20a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"98\" \/>Toyah is interviewed in the print edition of today&#8217;s <em>Daily Express<\/em>. Here is some of the interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I suffered ageism in my 30s but at 62 I&#8217;m treated like a Goddess<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never had any maternal instinct and it&#8217;s always baffled me why I was expected to have children,&#8221; she confesses. &#8220;I believe you&#8217;re born knowing if you want to have kids and I knew that would not be happening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only time I&#8217;ve ever experienced ageism was in my 30s, which was a very, very difficult decade. Back then if you were 30 and a woman, you were expected to have babies. But I had a successful career and never intended to have children and I couldn&#8217;t get anyone to hear that. People would say to me &#8216;Well, why are you married?&#8217; and I would say, &#8216;er, because I love my husband!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was too much of a bohemian to have children and anything that ties me down into one place is a challenge for me. But now I&#8217;m treated like a 62-year old goddess. I can say to women, &#8216;it does get better&#8217; because people see you as having a wisdom they can tap into&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah is interviewed in the print edition of today&#8217;s Daily Express. Here is some of the interview. I suffered ageism in my 30s but at 62 I&#8217;m treated like a Goddess &#8220;I&#8217;ve never had any maternal instinct and it&#8217;s always baffled me why I was expected to have children,&#8221; she confesses. &#8220;I believe you&#8217;re born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,27],"tags":[2575,556,2354],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34660"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34685,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660\/revisions\/34685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}