Here’s what we know about Margot Robbie. She’s stunning, and she’s an incredibly talented actress.
But now we can add feisty to that list after she put an interviewer back in their place after being asked an inappropriate, presumptuous question.
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Being the hot-commodity she is, Margot Robbie hasn’t been a single woman for quite some time.
She and her beau, Tom Ackerley, a British film director, were married in 2016.
The two have a fairly private relationship, considering the industry they both work in.
Despite being in the public eye, Margot has managed to keep her and Tom’s relationship low-key for the most part.
Their small, intimate wedding ceremony nearly snuck by without showing up on anybody’s radar.
Margot and Tom’s wedding was top-secret, heavily guarded, with just 50 guests, and a no-phone rule implemented.
Evidently, Margot is a private person, especially when it comes to her marriage.
But apparently, it wasn’t clear to everyone— since an interviewer felt it was his duty to impose his 1800’s, misogynist views on what every woman’s mission should be post-marriage.
The interviewer was about to get the clap-back of a lifetime.
You simply don’t mess with Margot Robbie— she’s bad to the bone. It’s common knowledge.
“I got married and the first question in almost every interview is ‘Babies? When are you having one?’ I’m so angry that there’s this social contract. You’re married, now have a baby. Don’t presume. I’ll do what I’m going to do.” she told Radio Times .
Attention everyone: Don’t ask women about the status of their womb. It’s weird.
“How dare some old guy dictate what I can and can’t do when it comes to motherhood or my own body?” she added.
Preach!
Not to mention the fact that Margot is an Oscar-nominated actress, currently on a press tour for her latest movie, “Mary Queen of Scots”.
Perhaps interviewers should be asking her questions about that instead.
She also has some other big roles coming up that he could have inquired about instead.
She’s about to star in a live-action Barbie movie, as well as playing Sharon Tate in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood alongside Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio.
The interviewer has a ton of material to use, and yet, he resorted to asking a highly irrelevant, lazy question.
Let this be a lesson to all of you.
Asking a woman when she’s planning on having a baby? Not okay.
It’s 2019, people! Time to put those sexist inquires to rest, and realize that women are capable of doing more than just having babies.
Whether or not a woman wants to have children is really nobody’s concern but her own.
Let’s not assume that every woman’s end-game is getting married, and then starting a family. This unrealistic expectation needs to be nipped in the bud here and now.
While the miracle of life is all well and good for those that want to, it’s also perfectly normal in this day and age, to choose an alternative path.
There are some even more obvious reasons as to why you shouldn’t ask a woman when she’s going to have a baby.
Many women struggle with infertility, and reproductive health issues, far beyond their control.
So, asking about their plans to conceive is insensitive AF.
When’s the last time an interviewer asked a male celebrity when he plans on impregnating someone?
Never, right? Because that would be inappropriate — just as it is to ask any woman— celebrity, or otherwise.
There’s no doubt, Margot handled the situation perfectly.
By shutting down the interviewer and calling him out for asking such a ridiculous question, she made an example out of him and stood up for women everywhere.
Well played, Margot.
Margot isn’t the only female celeb that may not want to have children, and doesn’t think it’s anybody’s business.
Women have options now, outside of being a nurse, teacher, or stay-at-home-mom, and although there’s nothing wrong with taking the traditional route, there’s also nothing wrong with taking advantage of new-age opportunities.
Cameron Diaz.
“It’s so much more work to have children. To have lives besides your own that you are responsible for — I didn’t take that on. That did make things easier for me. A baby — that’s all day, every day for 18 years. Not having a baby might really make things easier, but that doesn’t make it an easy decision.” Cameron told Esquire .
Jennifer Aniston.
“I don’t have this sort of checklist of things that have to be done and if they’re not checked then I’ve failed some part of my feminism or my being a woman or my worth or my value as a woman…Y’know, I’ve birthed a lot of things. I feel like I’ve mothered many things. And I don’t think it’s fair to put that pressure on people,” Jen told The Today Show in 2014.
Sarah Silverman.
Sarah opened up back in 2010, explaining that she hasn’t ruled out having kids, but she is no rush to.
“I want to have kids when there’s nothing else I want more,”
Chelsea Handler.
“I definitely don’t want to have kids.” Chelsea told Amanda De Cadenet in an interview, adding: “I don’t want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don’t have the time to raise a child myself.”
Betty White.
“No, I’ve never regretted it. I’m so compulsive about stuff. I know that if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would’ve been my whole focus. But I didn’t choose to have children because I’m focused on my career” she told CBS .
Rachael Ray.
“For me personally, I would need more time to feel like I’d be a good mom to my own child. I feel like a borderline good mom to my dog. So I can’t imagine if it was a human baby….I feel like it would be unfair, not only to the child but to the people I work with.” she told Salon .
Dolly Parton.
Dolly shared that she doesn’t feel the need to have children, because she grew up with so many siblings who went on to have kids of their own, and she’s happy just being an aunt to them.
“I often think, it just wasn’t meant for me to have kids so everybody’s kids can be mine.”
Renée Zellweger.
“Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don’t think like that.” Renée told The London Times in 2008. Adding: “I don’t need kids to be happy.”
Not having children is becoming an increasingly more common route to take.
Therefore, it’s probably best to keep any old-school questions you may have to yourself.
You never know what someone is going through. They may not be able to have children, or they may simply not want to.
Whatever the case may be for Margot, she handled the situation better than I could have ever imagined.
This is the type of feminist empowerment I like to see!
