Thursday was “take your toddler to work day”. Not literally, of course – nobody else had their toddler there, and it wasn’t one of those ridiculous national things like “national doughnut day” or “national look after your feet properly day” – but for me it was unavoidable. A necessary evil, though evil isn’t quite the right word, as there was actually something quite joyous about having a tiny pair of feet trotting about in the studio.
We were shooting new campaign material for the Colab dry shampoo brand, which is undergoing an amazing transformation over the course of the next few months. If you’ve followed me for a while then you’ll know that I’m one of the founders of the brand and have seen it grow from the very start, so it’s an exciting but nerve-wracking time at the moment, seeing all of the behind-the-scenes changes going on. Colab Active Dry Shampoo: The New Gym Bag Essential…
Which was why I couldn’t very well miss the shoot day, despite being approximately eighty-five years pregnant, weighing about seventy-thousand kilos and having an energetic toddler in tow. My role in the latest shoot was more on the creative directing side than the modelling one, though I did do a few beauty shots just to keep my hand in. Ha!

Anyway, I’ve digressed: I wanted to talk about taking your toddler to work and why – overall – it’s not that great an idea. Un...