Did you take to parenthood like a duck takes to water? I did not and as everyone else realize that it's kind of a learn as you go thing.
Felicity Huffman is just like the rest of us, she says she, “ Did not enter into motherhood with any sense of equanimity or grace", and that “I’m surrounded by women who are much better mothers than I am, and they come to it much more naturally.”
Oh Felicity, they are just faking it. Parenthood is hard, motherhood is harder than anything I've ever done.
She was very candid about her journey into motherhood in an interview and I just have to share it with you.
She explained her trepidation about motherhood, “I felt unequal to the task, I felt like I was moving from mistake to mistake, sleep-deprived forever.” She loves being a mom to her two girls but, she realizes, “Happiness is {not} anything like finding the perfect pair of black pants and breakfast in bed.”
She also explained why she doesn't bring her girls to work with her, “I’m not good at that multi-tasking thing: kids, conversation, kids, work. I find that very difficult. Also there is sort of a rarefied air around a set, which is weird.”
If she has a message for other parents struggling to “do it all,” it is this: ”Know your story, the story you have told yourself about your past…the decisions you have made.” That way, Felicity says, “at least when you are inflicting your unconscious or your views, you are a little bit aware of it.” When one of the girls recently lamented to Felicity that she feels “so different” from everyone else, Felicity told her she could relate. ”I said, ‘I think it’s part of human nature that you would feel different and that you would feel like you don’t belong,’” she recalls. “You feel like you are the odd one out… It just feels like that — even if you are the center of everything.”
I love the real moms in Hollywood that, yes, rely on a nanny while they are working, but actually dive in headfirst, during their "off" time.
By the way, how cute is that picture?
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