The novel “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” may have been written in 2013, but its openness about disliking motherhood still feels shocking more than a decade later.
There is a scene near the beginning of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy in which Bridget has to talk her friend Jude down from “defrosting her eggs.” Jude, a successful businesswoman in Versace heels, is having a breakdown over the fact that someone she was dating has just announced he has become a father. “All these years I said I didn’t want children and everyone kept saying I’d change my mind. They were right,” she wails. “You made a choice,” Bridget tells her. “It’s a good choice for you.
A lot of Bridget’s attitude toward motherhood also comes down to her singleness. She fantasizes about what life would have been like if Mark were still alive. Undoubtedly, it would have been a lot easier, and of course, she wouldn’t then be faced by this third pull that she has—the desire to find a boyfriend. It is her dating life that frequently pushes Bridget over the edge, from worrying about giving her toy boy nits to struggling to find a babysitter so she can organize a shag.
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