By Meghan Keneally New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's wife has told how being a mother did not come naturally to her when she first had children. Chirlane McCray has made a startlingly honest confession about how she had trouble adapting when her daughter Chiara was born 19 years ago. 'The truth is, I could not spend every day with her. I didn’t want to do that. I looked for all kinds of reason not to do it,' she told New York Magazine. Opening up: Chirlane McCray has described how, as someone who had worked since she was 14-years-old, she found it difficult to give up when she had her first child at the age of 40
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Chirlane McCray told how it took her a while to adjust to not working and raising her children instead
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'It took a long time for me to get into "I'm taking care of kids" and what that means,' she said in a new interview
Opening up: McCray spoke to New York Magazine about her life as @placeholder's first lady