Stacey Dooley took her baby to a brothel in Nevada
Stacey Dooley has revealed she took her eight-month-old baby to a brothel in Nevada while making a documentary about prostitution in the United States.
The broadcaster, 38, recalled the story in an interview about balancing motherhood and professional life at the Hay literary festival in Powys, south Wales, alongside fellow journalist Emma Barnett.
Dooley, whose book Dear Minnie: Conversations with Remarkable Mothers was published in March, said: 'There's nowhere that child hasn't been.
'When she was eight months', Dooley said, 'we had this gig in the diary to go to the States to make a documentary about this legal brothel in Nevada.
'I'd sort of signed the contract and was like: oh, she'll be eight months, that'll be fine. I'll be fine to go to a legal brothel in Nevada!
'Anyway, the trip comes, and I'm nowhere near comfortable leaving her so I take my eight-month-old child to this brothel in Nevada.
'I have to ask the sheriff for special permission, because she's under 18. It sounds like a comedy sketch, but it's legit!
'I have to then rent a trailer to put [my child] in. Her dad stays in this trailer with Minnie looking out the window while I'm filming and then going back to the trailer to breastfeed Minnie, and all the girls [working at the brothel] are like: 'Morning Miss Minnie!'
'I'm like: she'll be open minded if nothing else!'
Campaigner for gender equality
Nevada is the only US state that allows legal prostitution in the form of regulated brothels.
Dooley has been a campaigner for gender equality since she began her career as a documentary filmmaker with the BBC.
She chose to focus one of her first films, in 2010, on sex slavery in Cambodia.
Dooley has been in a relationship with dancer Kevin Clifton since 2019 after the two were paired up on Strictly Come Dancing in 2018, where she was the winning contestant.
Asked for her views on the shifting language around motherhood, such as terms like 'chestfeeding', Ms Dooley said: 'For me, I suppose I always try and prioritise other people's feelings.
'And I've also had to be aware that even when having these kinds of conversations, I don't want to ever equate motherhood to womanhood. That's something I'm really clear about.
'I don't think becoming a mum means you're any more of a woman or any less of a woman.
'So for me, it's all about trying to be aware of people's opinions, and you know what their preferences would be while talking about my experiences.'
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