Bibi Lynch (Part 1) - Hidden Homeless, Social Infertility, and the Right to Grieve Over Not Having Children

Today's guest is the delightful Bibi Lynch, a frequently requested guest from our listeners. I now know why. Bibi is pure truth.

Bibi is a journalist, writer and broadcaster. More accurately, she's a controversial journalist, writer and broadcaster. She presents a weekly show for BBC Radio Sussex and BBC Radio Surrey (she also co-hosted Sussex and Surrey’s ‘adult’ show After the Watershed and fronted their Bibi Lynch’s WHIPs series) and co-presents Good Sex Bad Sex — a podcast for metro.co.uk.

For ever 25 years, she's written for many titles and sites, including the Guardian, Stella, The Telegraph and Metro.  She’s a regular on TV, presented the What Men Want series for Living; co-wrote Graham Norton’s ITV late-night quiz Carnal Knowledge; and created Living’s hit series Dead Famous.

She’s also the "stupidly proud" creator of the acronym WHIPs (Women who are Hot, Intelligent and in their Prime – or Primark if times are tough), and was voted one of the HuffPost’s ‘50 Funniest Women on Twitter’.

In Part 1, listen as we discuss:

• Bibi's talent for discussing the taboo without reservation, heroically.
• Being a woman without children who wanted children and dealing with it.
• "Social infertility"
• The absurdity of people getting upset at things they hear.
• How she's been called a misogynist for grieving over not having children.
• Considering adoption and why it isn't always an option.
• Bibi's period being homeless for 10 years and moving 30 times.
• A take on regret, and why you'd probably make the same decision anyway.
• Recognizing the hidden homeless.

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