London Daily

Focus on the big picture.
Thursday, Oct 30, 2025

To a Crowd of Fellow Moms, Sarah Hoover Talked All Things Motherhood

To a Crowd of Fellow Moms, Sarah Hoover Talked All Things Motherhood

Hoover delivered a lecture-more appropriately described as a lively, spirited complaint-on “the status quo of motherhood.”

Last Thursday, at the newly opened Creator House, curator and art historian Sarah Hoover delivered a lecture-more appropriately described as a lively, spirited complaint-on “the status quo of motherhood.” The talk covered the abysmal health statistics characteristic of maternal care worldwide (especially in the U.S.), but also the limited way we talk about motherhood. It was also a broad invitation to expand the narrative, particularly the way in which the ideal often fails to map onto women’s lived reality-Hoover’s postpartum experience was colored by disorientation, trauma, and what eventually was determined to be 11 months of postpartum depression.

Hoover’s lecture ranged widely, from Berthe Morisot’s Impressionist era painting The Cradle, in which a blissed-out mother gazes at her infant, to the gorgeously raw portraits of Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra, in which a postpartum woman stares, somewhat shell-shocked at the camera, her body, and psyche on full display. Dijkstra, Hoover notes, took these portraits because she was interested in taking images of people at a time “when they didn’t have everything under control,” and in doing so created a powerful emblem of the philosophy that there’s no correct or incorrect way to be a parent.

Hoover was later joined onstage by Christy Turlington, legendary model and Founder of Every Mother Counts, a non-profit dedicated to elevating the need for improved access to quality maternal care. Turlington discussed how she has tackled somewhat mundane measures, for instance, easier reimbursement of doulas, to the truly critical, like the maternal death that results from unsafe abortions. In a heartfelt moment, Turlington discussed her early modeling years, when she was around “a lot of scenarios that were not great” and how, indirectly, that has influenced her advocacy for greater respect-on all fronts.



Sarah Hoover, Emily Ratajkowski



Emily Ratajkowski



Christy Turlington Burns, Huma Abedin



Leigh Lezark



Coco Roatyn, Cynthia Rowley



Jane Keltner de Valle, Charlotte Groeneveld, Marina Larroude



Sarah Hoover, Noor Tagouri, Christy Turlington Burns



Lily Mortimer, Putri Tan, Kelsey Hall, Tom Sachs



Sarah Hoover



Christy Turlington Burns, Sarah Hoover



The scene at Creator House

Newsletter

Related Articles

0:00
0:00
Close
UK and Vietnam Sign Landmark Migration Deal to Fast-Track Returns of Irregular Arrivals
UK Drug-Pricing Overhaul Essential for Life-Sciences Ambition, Says GSK Chief
Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie Temporarily Leave the UK Amid Their Parents’ Royal Fallout
UK Weighs Early End to Oil and Gas Windfall Tax as Reeves Seeks Investment Commitments
UK Retail Inflation Slows as Shop Prices Fall for First Time Since Spring
Next Raises Full-Year Profit Guidance After Strong Third-Quarter Performance
Reform UK’s Lee Anderson Admits to 'Gaming' Benefits System While Advocating Crackdown
United States and South Korea Conclude Major Trade Accord Worth $350 Billion
Hurricane Melissa Strikes Cuba After Devastating Jamaica With Record Winds
Vice President Vance to Headline Turning Point USA Campus Event at Ole Miss
U.S. Targets Maritime Narco-Routes While Border Pressure to Mexico Remains Limited
Bill Gates at 70: “I Have a Real Fear of Artificial Intelligence – and Also Regret”
Elon Musk Unveils Grokipedia: An AI-Driven Alternative to Wikipedia
Saudi Arabia Unveils Vision for First-Ever "Sky Stadium" Suspended Over Desert Floor
Amazon Announces 14 000 Corporate Job Cuts as AI Investment Accelerates
UK Shop Prices Fall for First Time Since March, Food Leads the Decline
London Stock Exchange Group ADR (LNSTY) Earns Zacks Rank #1 Upgrade on Rising Earnings Outlook
Soap legend Tony Adams, long-time star of Crossroads, dies at 84
Rachel Reeves Signals Tax Increases Ahead of November Budget Amid £20-50 Billion Fiscal Gap
NatWest Past Gains of 314% Spotlight Opportunity — But Some Key Risks Remain
UK Launches ‘Golden Age’ of Nuclear with £38 Billion Sizewell C Approval
UK Announces £1.08 Billion Budget for Offshore Wind Auction to Boost 2030 Capacity
UK Seeks Steel Alliance with EU and US to Counter China’s Over-Capacity
UK Struggles to Balance China as Both Strategic Threat and Valued Trading Partner
Argentina’s Markets Surge as Milei’s Party Secures Major Win
British Journalist Sami Hamdi Detained by U.S. Authorities After Visa Revocation Amid Israel-Gaza Commentary
King Charles Unveils UK’s First LGBT+ Armed Forces Memorial at National Memorial Arboretum
At ninety-two and re-elected: Paul Biya secures eighth term in Cameroon amid unrest
Racist Incidents Against UK Nurses Surge by 55%
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves Cites Shared Concerns With Trump Administration as Foundation for Early US-UK Trade Deal
Essentra plc: A Closer Look at a UK ‘Penny Stock’ Opportunity Amid Market Weakness
U.S. and China Near Deal to Avert Rare-Earth Export Controls Ahead of Trump-Xi Summit
Justin time: Justin Herbert Shields Madison Beer with Impressive Reflex at Lakers Game
Russia’s President Putin Declares Burevestnik Nuclear Cruise Missile Ready for Deployment
Giuffre’s Memoir Alleges Maxwell Claimed Sexual Act with Clooney
House Republicans Move to Strip NYC Mayoral Front-Runner Zohran Mamdani of U.S. Citizenship
Record-High Spoiled Ballots Signal Voter Discontent in Ireland’s 2025 Presidential Election
Philippines’ Taal Volcano Erupts Overnight with 2.4 km Ash Plume
Albania’s Virtual AI 'Minister' Diella Set to 'Birth' Eighty-Three Digital Assistants for MPs
Tesla Unveils Vision for Optimus V3 as ‘Biggest Product of All Time’, Including Surgical Capabilities
Francis Ford Coppola Auctions Luxury Watches After Self-Financed Film Flop
Convicted Sex Offender Mistakenly Freed by UK Prison Service Arrested in London
United States and China Begin Constructive Trade Negotiations Ahead of Trump–Xi Summit
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro over Drug-Trafficking Allegations
Miss USA Crowns Nebraska’s Audrey Eckert Amid Leadership Overhaul
‘I Am Not Done’: Kamala Harris Signals Possible 2028 White House Run
NBA Faces Integrity Crisis After Mass Arrests in Gambling Scandal
Swift Heist at the Louvre Sees Eight French Crown Jewels Stolen in Under Seven Minutes
U.S. Halts Trade Talks with Canada After Ontario Ad Using Reagan Voice Triggers Diplomatic Fallout
Microsoft AI CEO: ‘We’re making an AI that you can trust your kids to use’ — but can Microsoft rebuild its own trust before fixing the industry’s?
×