In her recently released memoir, 'Rough Draft,' Katy Tur pulls back the curtain on her often tumultuous, frequently inspiring childhood.
is not interested in inserting herself into"the story." But she is interested in honesty — for herself, her audience and her children.Tur, 38, pulls back the curtain on her often tumultuous, frequently inspiring childhood.
"In order to tell the story, to really understand it and to be honest about it, I had to tell the whole story," Tur told Craig Melvin on TODAY."You can't just tell the glossy parts.
"Being a mom has made me a better reporter," Tur said."The majority of the women in this country don't have paid leave at all, let alone five months. So when I came back I wanted to make a point that it's not extremes — it's difficult for everybody to have a kid. And paid parental leave is not just good for the baby, but the mother, the partner, the family, the baby, the town, the society and the country.
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