Erika Kirk says 'boss babe' path would have cost her 'the most beautiful moments of my life' with Charlie, children, family

Erika Kirk has said that before she met her late husband Charlie Kirk, she was on a path where she would have missed out on the “most beautiful moments of [her] life,” including having children and marrying her husband.

Kirk, who has taken on the mantle of CEO of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) after her husband’s passing, told the New York Times in an interview at the DealBook Summit, “I was fully bought into the boss babe. I lived in Manhattan. Charlie essentially plucked me out of the New York City orbit. He was like, ‘Yeah, I have a healthier way of viewing things and looking at life and things like that,' and he was right. He was right. And I remember thinking, ‘If I would have stayed on that path I was on, I would have lost out on some of the most beautiful moments of my life.’” 

“Children, having a husband, being able to create and build something so incredible and again, yes, balance is an illusion. I bring my children to the office. I have them with me constantly. We have a phenomenal team. It doesn't just fall on my shoulders. Charlie was very good about creating and intentionally building a machine where it turns from founder-led to vision-led, and he shared everything with me. I knew his goals. I knew what his vision was for things.”

Expanding on this, Kirk also said that women, when they are solely pursuing their career, might "look to the government as a solution to put off having a family or a marriage because you're relying on the government to support you."

Kirk said in the interview that her husband understood that many of the issues facing young people at college today having to do with mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and others. 

"If you go on a campus and you ask a counselor, ‘What is the number one or number two thing that these students are facing?’ They will always say mental health, anxiety and depression, those are usually the top three. And what Charlie knew, and he was trying to explain to students on campus, was that you have to understand that brain health is so important. How you eat, how you take care of yourself, how you nourish yourself, how you rest. And to him, it was much deeper and more intricate, and what I've realized through all of this is that you can have individuals that will always resort to violence and what I'm afraid of is that we live in a day and age where they think violence is the solution to them not wanting to hear a different point of view.”

Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking to students at Utah Valley University campus on September 10 this year. Tyler Robinson has been charged for his murder and is being held in jail awaiting trial.