Don't have kids if you've no time for them, says Dame Vivienne Westwood: Designer suggests women shouldn't work if they are committed to raising their children
- The fashion designer said: ‘If you don’t want children try not to have them’
- Suggested women stay at home if they are committed to raising children
- Despite her views, Miss Westwood, 75, had two sons herself while working
![Vivienne Westwood told working mothers: ‘If you don’t want children try not to have them’. Pictured at an event in London's St James' Church](http://web.archive.org./web/20161017003356im_/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/10/16/23/39640A8100000578-0-image-m-5_1476655907312.jpg)
Vivienne Westwood told working mothers: ‘If you don’t want children try not to have them’. Pictured at an event in London's St James' Church
Vivienne Westwood yesterday told working mothers who struggle to balance office and home life: ‘If you don’t want children try not to have them’.
The controversial fashion designer was discussing whether nursery provision was a good thing because it allows women to go back to work.
Speaking at Cheltenham Literary Festival, she suggested that women should stay at home and not work if they are committed to raising children - otherwise it’s better not to be a mother at all.
The mother-of-two said: ‘When I was young my mother didn’t go out to work. We were quite poor. She was a weaver, my father went round with a van for the greengrocery.
‘My mother made herself ill when I was about eight.
‘She decided to go out to work and she got asthma through worrying that she wasn’t looking after her children properly.
‘If you don’t want children and you don’t want to spent time with them, try not to have them.
‘The worst thing is everybody is having to go out to work. I think these things happen by public pressure.’
Despite her views, Miss Westwood, 75, had two sons herself while working as both a primary school teacher and a jewellery designer.
![The controversial fashion designer was discussing whether nursery provision was a good thing because it allows women to go back to work.](http://web.archive.org./web/20161017003356im_/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/10/16/23/09425BF000000514-0-image-a-6_1476655933500.jpg)
The controversial fashion designer was discussing whether nursery provision was a good thing because it allows women to go back to work.
Her eldest son, Ben, a photographer, was born in 1963, the year after her marriage to her first husband Derek Westwood.
Her younger son Joseph Corre, a businessman who founded the lingerie retalier Agent Provocateur, was born in 1967 out of her relationship with punk music mogul Malcolm Mclaren.
Miss Westwood offered views on a range of subjects during the hour-long event.
Despite being a staunch critic of Rupert Murdoch and comparing him to Chairman Mao, she said she did not resent friend Jerry Hall for wearing one of her wedding dresses to marry the media tycoon.
![She suggested that women should stay at home and not work if they are committed to raising children - otherwise it’s better not to be a mother at all](http://web.archive.org./web/20161017003356im_/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/10/16/23/39640BAF00000578-0-She_suggested_that_women_should_stay_at_home_and_not_work_if_the-m-11_1476656058809.jpg)
She suggested that women should stay at home and not work if they are committed to raising children - otherwise it’s better not to be a mother at all
She said: ‘We all supported her because we love her - she’s a very nice woman.
‘Apparently she’s really in love with Rupert Murdoch so we were all thinking, can we get Rupert Murdoch to put some money into something good and apparently we can’t.
‘I mentioned how much good Prince Charles has done- I can’t think of anyone more than Chairman Mao who has done so much harm as Rupert Murdoch.‘
Miss Westwood describes herself as anti-establishment but said she loves the Queen.
Speaking about American politics Miss Westwood also said she thought that Barack Obama was a killer.
She said: ‘Putin is a thug and so is Barack Obama, so are they all. We hear it all from one side but i wouldnt support Putin.
'Obama has done nothing, he can't do anything. Tell me what good he has done. He’s a killer.’
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