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Article: Girls 'can't have it all'; Bridget Jones author warns of the perils of mixing a family and a career.(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2009
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Byline: Simon Cable Showbusiness Reporter
SHE has been credited with helping spawn a generation of thirtysomething singletons.
Now Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding has criticised women who aspire to 'have it all'.
Miss Fielding, whose novels ridicule some women's obsession with lifestyle magazines and self-help books, has also claimed that endless self-improvement has become a 'modern disease'.
The Yorkshire-born mother of two has made more than [pounds sterling]20million from her four Bridget Jones books, two of which have been made into films.
They focus on a 32-year-old who keeps a diary about her repeated attempts to ...