We all know the scoop on this, Diana Ross got pregnant by Berry Gordy, then married Bob Silberstein in a hurry. First of all, what does that say about Berry Gordy that he knocked her up, and then didn't marry her? Secondly, if she had decided to just have the baby and be a single mother, do you think it would have harmed her career at all? And was her marriage to Bob because she feared what being an unwed mother would do to her career? This was a time when Women's liberation was at the forefront of the american political discourse, would she have been held up as an example of what a woman can do alone? We all know that Helen Reddy, burning bras, Gloria Steinem and all that was in full flower at the time, so do you think it wouldn't have mattered to her fans or her public? Being an unwed mother did still hold some stigma, at the time, on an episode of Mary Tyler Moore, Mary asked Rhoda if she ever wondered what kind of mother she'd be... and Rhoda replied, "I don't care, as long as it's not unwed!".
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