Vintage photo of Brad McMath, Joni Mitchell's former boyfriend and father of her kidnapped daughter

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Looking to lose her virginity in art school, she slept with artist Brad MacMath because he was available – a decision that left her pregnant.

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In fall of 1964, Mitchell became pregnant by her ex-boyfriend Brad MacMath, and was forced to give her daughter up for adoption because she was too poor to raise her. Writing about her song , "Moon at the Window", Mitchell said, "My daughter's father left me three months pregnant in an attic room with no money and winter coming on and only a fireplace for heat. The spindles of the banister were gap-toothed fuel for last winter's occupants. He left behind a doodle of a pregnant woman seated at a window, looking at a crescent moon and on it he wrote, 'The thief left it behind, the moon at the window.' The song, other than this Zen saying, has nothing to do with that incident." Mitchell wasn’t the first to hit on this contradiction. Our modern understanding of the artist – one undoubtedly informed by the concept of Bohemia – is that their work emanates from a place of struggle. How, then, does an artist retain a sense of integrity once they’ve dragged themselves out of the gutter and is living comfortably?Born on the Canadian prairie in the far reaches of the province of Alberta in 1943, eight-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, 73, had no early dreams about being a singer. Mother and daughter reunited in 1997 when Kelly was 32 and Joni was 54. Kelly mentions that she met Joni for the first time in her kitchen and she hugged her and says it felt like ‘I had gone away on a trip for a couple months and I was coming home."