An Australian model has been slammed after sharing a list of more than 100 reasons why she doesn't want to have children.
Ellie Gonsalves shared the list last year, including nasty pregnancy symptoms, constant fatigue and significant financial costs.
Since then, she says she has been put in the "Cruella de Vil category," and has received intense backlash.
The 33-year-old, who has five million followers across Facebook and Instagram, uploaded the list of 118 points to her social media in November with the caption: "After years of being asked why I don't want children I compiled this as it always seemed a short reason was never good enough or understood."
"It's my own PERSONAL thoughts based on a lot of my own experiences or things very honest people have shared with me personally or online. Some people are made to be parents and that is amazing (I am so happy if you are happy!!!!) but that life is just not (for) me," the caption read.
The screenshots of the list, written on the notes app of her phone, point at controversial negatives of birth including having a "C section scar" and "body swelling".
Some of her points talk about the negatives of raising children, saying: "If you have kids and regret it, you're stuck with them."
"The food you cook your kids will usually not be eaten because kids are picky eaters," another point reads.
Gonsalves told Stellar that despite receiving backlash, she also received an outpouring of grateful messages from other women.
"It's like people get offended that I'm saying I don't want to live their life, and then go into this defence mode of trying to change my mind," she said.
However, Gonsalves said the backlash hasn't deterred her from speaking out.
"It's important for me to be a voice for those people. It also might give others a bit more empathy and understanding towards people who say that they don't want to have children."
She said she hopes people "choose their language a little bit more selectively next time".
"Why am I not given the same respect as women who say they want to be pregnant and have a child?"
Gonsalves said her and her husband, Ross Scutts, have been together for 15 years, and "have worked really, really hard for peace".
"Now we just don't care to disrupt that peace," she explained.
"Bringing another human into our dynamic would massively change that, and I don't want to play second banana to a baby."
