Helen Thorn of the Scummy Mummies on reconnecting with her body after divorce

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Trigger warning: body image, heartbreak, betrayal

I don’t remember exactly when I heard of the Scummy Mummies, a comedy duo who aim to show motherhood in all its messy glory through their podcast and stand-up shows but I knew they were the antidote to the perfect instagram mumfluencers that have flooded the social media platform in recent years. The latter have the ability to put me off motherhood for life quite frankly so it’s refreshing to get a different perspective from less-than-perfect parents.

In the last year, one of my best friends shared an Instagram post from one of the pair. Helen Thorn had recently become divorced and had posted something about the joys of being single. I added her to my mental list of people to interview for this newsletter but was finally prompted to contact her PR when the same friend shared that she was bringing out a book entitled ‘Get Divorced, Be Happy: How becoming single turned out to be my happily ever after’. With a title like that I knew I had t…