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Love & Passion Quote by Elle Macpherson

"If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time"

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Macpherson’s “Every time” is doing more work than the domestic preferences that precede it. Coming from a supermodel whose public identity was built on visibility, glamour, and being seen in the right rooms, the line functions as a deliberate rebranding: the woman once marketed as a nightlife-ready icon now claims authority in opting out. The repetition of “If I have a choice” frames her life as an ongoing series of forks in the road, and she’s careful to choose the path that reads as grounded, intimate, and self-directed.

The subtext isn’t just “I love my kids” or “I prefer home.” It’s a corrective to an industry narrative that assumes fame comes with compulsory availability: to photographers, to parties, to a social calendar that treats women’s time as communal property. “Putting my kids to bed” is also a coded flex of stability and competence, the kind of moral capital celebrity culture rewards when it wants to soften a high-gloss image with “real life.”

Her second comparison is sneakier: restaurant versus friends. That isn’t simply anti-elitist; it’s pro-control. Restaurants are public, performative, surveilled. Friends round is private, curated, safe. The sentence suggests a life engineered away from the camera’s demand for spectacle and toward chosen witness.

“Every time” closes the loopholes. No exceptions, no “when work allows,” no apology. It’s a boundary presented as taste, which is a savvy way to make self-protection look effortless rather than defensive.

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Macpherson, Elle. (2026, January 16). If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-i-have-a-choice-between-putting-my-kids-to-bed-95327/

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Macpherson, Elle. "If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-i-have-a-choice-between-putting-my-kids-to-bed-95327/.

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"If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-i-have-a-choice-between-putting-my-kids-to-bed-95327/. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.

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Elle Macpherson (born March 29, 1964) is a Model from Australia.

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