| There sure are a lot of famous women having children these days. In Celebrity Soundbites you get insight into the thoughts and experiences of moms that juggle work, kids and the paparazzi. Excerpted from international media sources, this is the web's most comprehensive compilation of celebrity comments on managing the chaos of working outside the home while raising a family. |
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Kelly Ripa:
" I feel like women are a role model to me. I'm constantly meeting working moms in my audience who achieve so much in their lives that I feel encouraged and empowered by them. We're all going through the motions of working and raising our children and being good wives -- as best we can. ... I don't know if I [juggle family and career] particularly well. I try my hardest at work and at home. I'm very lucky in that I have the best hours a person could hope for; I get to pick my kids up every day from school and take them to all their activities. I'm able to devote the time that I think they need."
Cheryl Hines.:
"I feel like I will be the best mom I can be if I am a happy person. And for me, it makes me happy to go to work and do something, and [then] come home and be the mom. You keep your sanity first, and then save the baby." - Oprah: Moms Continue the Conversation
Julia Roberts:
"I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos-- so it's certainly nice to have that shape. Acting fulfills me in a creative way that has this myopic focus -- and it gives me something to talk about at dinner. That can't be underrated, really. A lot of the mom struggle in life is that everything happens within the four walls of the home, and it can lose its luster a little bit, maybe. You just have to bring it in from outside sometimes." - Allure, March
Reese Witherspoon:
"I am an "all kinds" of mom. I'm a working mom, so I definitely have those moments where I wish I could be home with the kids. But I'm lucky that my job isn't all day every day, so I do get to be there for the school fairs, plays, and volunteering in the classroom." - Parents, March 2009
Kate Winslet:
I [balance work with raising 2 kids] with great precision. I plan everything in advance: who's picking up. We have charts, maps and lists on the fridge, all over the house. I sometimes feel like I'm with the CIA."
People 2/23
Tina Fey:
"I know for sure that you can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at. I know for sure that a hard-boiled egg is two points on Weight Watchers. I know for sure that my kid needs my husband and me to be with her more." - From O Magazine 2/2009
Kelli Williams:
"It was nice to be away for a while, but I was ready.
I made a deal with myself that when my youngest went to kindergarten, I would go back to work full-time, and it worked. Knock on wood, it keeps going." -- People
Julianne Moore:
“I try to work in the summer, or shoot in New York City. I’ll try to come back every weekend, or schedule around school breaks. No one likes it, but you’re trying to make a living. People say, ‘Then don’t do it,’ but I do have a career. Every woman I know strives for flexibility, and I fortunately have a tremendous amount of it.”
Mira Sorvino:
"I think I find in my own life, it’s a terrible conflict, when you have children, to leave them for any length of time to go to work . . I never actually leave my children…They always come with me. But I still despair at walking away from them for a long day of work. I try and make their lives as educational and fun and as close to me as possible whenever I’m working. So it’s a real balancing act.”
Amy Poehler:
"Sleep is out for 2009. Tired is the new black." - OK 2/2/09
