Paloma Faith: ‘If anyone can do it, it’s me’

Despite the balancing act - home schooling, a second baby, a fifth album and a nationwide tour - Paloma Faith always comes out fighting... and full of stories

Here's a nice little exclusive for you," Paloma Faith leans into my voice recorder generously, grinning, and you'll like this because it's about lactation!" We are huddled outside a cafe on a day that promised sun but delivered rain, and she pulls her jacket around her a bit tighter - on the back, in big letters it reads: IT'S ALL BOLLOCKS.

So, she says, a week ago she put a post on Instagram about her second baby's aversion to breastfeeding, and minutes later got a call. Don't bin the milk!' they said. Six months of milk, I'd been pumping since my baby was born, and a lactation consultant called and told me she'd pick it up, give it to a new mother who couldn't breastfeed and was beside herself with worry. It was all marked, dated, so I put it in a freezer bag stuffed with ice packs and sent it off." Does the woman know... That it's pop star milk? Nope!"