{"id":74462,"date":"2025-08-16T16:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74462\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:25:10","slug":"laura-whitmore-for-my-own-mental-health-its-good-to-have-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74462\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Whitmore: \u2018For my own mental health, it\u2019s good to have boundaries\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFrom live TV to treading the boards on the West End, the Wicklow presenter\u2019s career pivot has taken critics by surprise. Here, she talks about parenthood, boundaries and how a new generation of women are changing celebrity culture\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Laura Whitmore. Photo: Alexandra Cameron \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/x Alexandra Cameron.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Laura Whitmore. Photo: Alexandra Cameron <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">After completing her last play 2:22 A Ghost Story, Laura Whitmore was determined to take a break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The TV presenter and actor had been in the West-End staging, and then switched roles when the production went on tour to Ireland. It was a demanding and busy period. \u201cAnd then I did a play in London again and I said I am not doing any more plays for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From live TV to treading the boards on the West End, the Wicklow presenter\u2019s career pivot has taken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,45923,45922,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-74462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-kirsty-blake-knox","12":"tag-laura-whitmore","13":"tag-mental-health","14":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}