Best-selling author and podcast supremo Elizabeth Day has helped lead important conversations about infertility and miscarriage and spoken candidly about her own experiences and her acceptance that she will not have children.
The journalist and broadcaster spoke about the strength it took for her to share her journey, as she features on The Independent’s Influence List this International Women’s Day.
Reflecting on 12 years of trying to have a baby, the broadcaster said she initially felt unable to speak about her experience.
“When I started out on that journey, I felt a great deal of shame around it. I didn't feel that I could share what I was going through,” the journalist said.
“The moment that I decided to take the risk of sharing… I felt less alone because connection is forged through vulnerability. I now feel part of a community of women and men who have walked similar paths, and there's so much strength and power that comes from that.”
Read The Independent’s influence list for International Women’s Day 2026 here.
