Do you get a bit twitchy when celebrities talk parenting, imagining all the help they have? Well these stars are brave enough to admit it.
Australian actress Rachel Griffiths, 45, is mum to Banjo, 10, Adelaide, 9, and Clementine, 5. She also has spent most of their lives working long hours in demanding TV series.
So the star admits that she has had a cook and a nanny to help her family since her babies were tiny.
“I guess you could say I outsourced a lot of the baby stuff” she said in an interview with Sunday Style.
“You’re learning tremendous amounts of dialogue for TV, so, yes you’ve got the weekend with your children but, you know, you’ve got 80 pages to learn for the next week and you want to be on top of that, otherwise you’re a bad actor. You can’t win” Rachel continued.
And following in Rachel’s footsteps is Dutch supermodel Lara Stone, 30, who has a 1-year old son, Alfred, with Little Britain star David Walliams. She admits that pregnancy and babyhood was tough on her career.
“Yes, I did worry about the impact [of motherhood on my modelling career], because my body is my job and my livelihood,” Lara told the UK’s Sunday Times Style magazine. “Also, I like working and I don’t like sitting around at home, so I really wanted to get back into things. It’s nice once the baby’s here, but then I was like, ‘I really want to do something again.'”
“My family doesn’t live near and my husband’s family lives a couple of hours away, and both of our jobs are so unpredictable,” she says. “Sometimes there is nothing you can do and you have to leave him with the nanny for a couple of days.”
