United Kingdom, March 29 -- Robyn thought it was too "risky" to have a child in her previous relationships so opted to become a lone parent.

The 46-year-old singer - who was previously engaged to director Max Vitali - always knew she wanted to have children but was worried having a family would mean having to put up with a "not great" relationship, and the idea of doing so was more "scary" than undergoing IVF alone to have her son Tyko, now three.

She told The Guardian newspaper: "I thought it would happen much sooner/ But then I think motherhood in a conventional heterosexual relationship, in my life at least, has been really hard to reconcile with what I think I would have to do to make that work."Definitely the split of labour, but a...