So Lily Allen thinks her children are “boring”.

The one-time pop star has made a comeback because she found it “really hard” spending time with her children because “they can’t communicate”.

I often wish celebs would button their mouths – and this is one of those times.

One day her children, now aged one and two, are going to grow up and read this interview in Hello! magazine. She said: “I didn’t get... I mean, I’m not bored by my children. Actually, I am, you know,” she said. “The oldest one has only just started talking now. So it was really hard because you’re spending all day, every day, with two human beings that can’t communicate back to you.

“And for someone like me, when my whole existence is about communicating and response and reaction, it was quite frustrating. I felt like I needed to get out and do something else with my time.”

It’s surely a complete lack of maturity on the part of this self-centred 28-year-old that she simply can't bear to put her own needs, desires and ambitions to one side for a short period of her life and concentrate on her children's needs.

Having children means sacrifice, whether that sacrifice is your time, your money, your sleep, your energy, your attention – or all of them.

Of course babies are boring – but only for some of the time. They sleep a lot, they grizzle because they’re hungry or they need changing, and it can take ages to feed a baby by breast or by bottle and even longer to offer spoonful after spoonful of mush to a toddler.

But the compensation is their laughter, their joy at mastering a new human skill, their happy gurgling, the feel of their fingers grasping yours, their first step, the look of complete trust on their face as they gaze at you.

Lily is sorely mistaken when she said “they can't communicate back at you”. Babies communicate all the time with their voice, their eyes, their mouth, their movements.

It’s what makes them human, it’s what creates the bond between mother and child. If their mother can't or won’t communicate with them, as Lily clearly can’t or won’t, they don’t learn the next stage in communication – and that precious mother-child bond is in serious danger of being broken.

She said: “My whole existence is about communicating and response and reaction.”

But what she really means is communication on her terms, communication that interests her, that’s stimulating for her, that grabs her attention, and that's all she cares about.

I can't imagine what on earth Lily Allen expected from babies. Intellectual discussions? An analysis of climate change? Seriously, how can a grown woman, in this age of information overload, be taken unawares by the reality of having babies?

She appears not to be ready emotionally for the challenges of motherhood, and so I expect her children will now be cared for by nannies as she prepares for the release of her new album Sheezus on May 5.

I hope she thinks the sacrifice she’s forcing her children to make will be worth it. Otherwise, I predict sad and long-lasting consequences for her two daughters, who don’t seem to be worth as much to her as a few cheap pop songs.