Nicola Sturgeon said that she and her husband could foster children after she leaves politics.
The First Minister, 51, and Peter Murrell, the SNP’s chief executive, 56, who do not have any children, spend time at Bute House but mostly live at their private home in Glasgow, where they tied the knot in 2010 after dating for seven years.
Nicola Sturgeon spoke out publicly in September 2016 about a miscarriage she suffered in 2011. She also shared the pain of losing a baby when she was 40.
“I’ve become really involved and passionate about improving opportunities for young people who were raised in care,” she said to Vogue. She then added that fostering children could be something she might consider in the future, post-politics. It’s something that my husband and i have only scratched at the surface of discussing.
Nicola Sturgeon (51), has said that her husband and she might consider fostering children in future, post-politics
The First Minister and Peter Murrell tied the knot in 2010 after dating for seven years. Pictured, after casting her vote at Broomhouse Community Hall polling station in Glasgow as Scotland goes to the polls in the Scottish Parliament election on May 5, 2016
The Scottish First Minister, who joined SNP as a 16-year-old, previously revealed how she had conceived at 40 and lost her baby in early stages of pregnancy.
When tragedy struck, she was preparing to tell her friends about the pregnancy with her husband.
Nicola, however, did not rest at home and continued her public engagements to mark the 40th anniversary the Ibrox football stadium collapse on January 3, 2011.
She spoke movingly about the miscarriage, telling Mandy Rhodes (author of a new book called Scottish National Party Leaders serialised in The Sunday Times): ‘If it hadn’t happened, would you be sitting here right now as First Minister?
Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon at their wedding at the Oran Mor in Glasgow on 16 July 2010
“It’s an unanswerable query, I just don’t know the answer. It’s something I’ve thought about, but I don’t have the answer. I would like to believe ‘yes’, because I could have shown that having children wasn’t a barrier to all of this, but in reality I don’t know.
In July 2015 Ms. Sturgeon was depicted as a childless’ female politician on the widely-criticized cover of a magazine. She called the New Statesman ‘crass” for depicting her and other childless lawmakers standing around a cot with an inside ballot box.
The First Minister of Scotland said that she had never discussed her miscarriage publicly before, as she didn’t want to be defined by it.
She is an extremely private person. She said that she is aware of the fact that some girls may see her as a role-model and believe that women must sacrifice a portion of their lives to climb up the career ladder.
She said that having a baby could have had such a profound impact on our lives that it would have taken a completely different path. However, if someone offered me the chance to go back 20 years in time and tell me that I can begin to think about this earlier and have children, that’d be something that I would do.
“But if the cost of that wasn’t doing what I’ve done, I wouldn’t accept it, no.