“I had my oldest in 2009, it’s game-changing,” Kelis says. “I have friends who were always broody and I wasn’t that person. My life was everything I wanted it to be: I was travelling, I was single, I was like, ‘This is great!’ I didn’t have that moment where I was like, ‘I want to have a child’ so when I had him I was always very clear about the type of parent I didn’t want to be.”

Explaining her concerns about how having a child would affect her career, she adds: “I loved my life so much and I felt like all the chicks who had kids changed so much that there was always some sort of ‘should have, would have’… I didn’t want that.

“So I packed that little sucker up and he’s been on tour with [me] ever since. Literally, nothing stopped. I shot a video three months after he was born, I went on tour all over the world and I didn’t stop. It made me so proud and so grateful. It made me realise what strength we have as women: it’s such a farce that we’ve been told anything else. I didn’t realise how strong I was until I had time. I didn’t realise how genuinely, truly powerful I was and how monumental we are as women in general. We model and build the word and somehow we’ve allowed people to tell us that’s not the case which is outrageous.”

Kelis describes the confusing reality of changing your mind about having kids