“The more people fall over the column publicly (and put my words in a context that serves their boring story), the more people who need this will read it. Thanks dear!”, responds Lize, who has a relationship with presenter Tim Hofman, on social media on Sunday.
Among the critics is Yvonne Coldeweijer. She thinks that Lize talks about an abortion as if it were a ‘fashion’. “What you do with your own body is up to you, but talking about it as if abortion is something you order from the Wehkamp but send it back because it doesn’t work out, I think it’s really tone-deaf,” says Yvonne.
Maxime Meiland calls the column ‘foolishness at its best’. “It’s not a doll,” she adds.
In the column, Lize talks about the only family member who supported her, the judgmental reactions, the time to think about an abortion and the loneliness that the event entailed. “As numbing fluid flows into my veins through an IV, I apologize in my mind to the clump of cells in my uterus. ‘Sorry, I’m not ready for you, someday, but not yet,'” she wrote.
