She Never Wanted Kids

I watched something the other day on the Today show about a lady who left her children ages 5 and 3 and her husband of 20 years to pursue her career. I litterally watched this segment with my mouth open in amazement. Thinking how selfish this woman is. What she specifically said was "I never wanted children" The question that kept coming to my mind was "Then why did you have them?"
After I saw my sister go through labor with her first child I SWORE I would never give birth to a child. The pain that I saw come with that was just something I did not want to participate in. I wanted a child but I knew I could not endure that pain and luckily it so happened that I got the benefit of being a mom without having to go through all that nonsense. But to say "I never wanted kids" and then you have them anyway baffles me.
There are plenty of people who say the same thing that "they never want children" and that is perfectly fine. To some parenthood is just not something they want, but typically they don't go and get pregnant knowing this-they take measures to not have them.  I guess my big question to this lady is, why would you not discuss this with your husband BEFORE you get married to see if that is the same thing he wants as well? If he wants children and you do not, then chances are you do not need to marry this person.

She also stated that her children are fine and not traumatized. Really? Maybe they are not- maybe they have worked through this through counseling or talking about it but I cannot see how these children would not have some issues with this especially when their mom is going around on TV basically saying to them "I never wanted you".  I don't know, I just don't understand.