Cyndi Lauper's Doctor Shamed Her For Abortion: "You Should Have Kept Your Legs Crossed"

Cyndi Lauper's doctor told her she "should have kept her legs crossed" to avoid having an abortion.

The 'Time After Time' singer was in her early 20s when she found herself pregnant and claimed that when she decided to terminate the pregnancy, her doctor told her she should not have had sex in the first place.

Asked if she had ever had an abortion, Lauper, 69, told Vanity Fair: "I did. And the guy I got pregnant with didn’t even want the kid. You think I wanted to bring somebody into the world feeling they’re not wanted? I never felt I was wanted. I was 23 and I got so sick…and the doctor was such a d***, so awful, telling me, 'You should have kept your legs crossed.' I said, 'Well, are you teaching young men that they should be wearing some sort of contraception?'"

Lauper eventually went on to marry actor David Thornton — whom she met on the set of the comedy-thriller Off and Running — in 1991 and welcomed their son Declyn in 1997. 

The Grammy and Emmy-winning actress/singer was speaking to the outlet ahead of the premiere of her autobiographical documentary Let the Canary Sing at the 2023 Tribeca Festival on Wednesday (June 14). 

Elsewhere in the Vanity Fair interview, Lauper also weighed in on cancel culture.

"I think it’s bull****. You’re going to let fearmongers who want everybody to have braces on your brains and make everybody march the same way…? There are other countries for that. Not America. Although we have had a lot of that throughout history...the 1930s, ’40s, ’50s … Little girls don’t understand, but they will." — BANG SHOWBIZ

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