August 29th, 2009Jennifer appears in the new issue of “InStyle” magazine. Here’s what she had to say about motherhood to her 19-month-old twins Max and Emme.
“There’s nothing as huge as giving birth to another human being and having to be responsible for another life. There’s you before kids, and there’s you after kids — and they’re not the same you.”
“You don’t come first anymore. There’s somebody else you care more about than yourself.”
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Oh how true!! The words she said I certainly agree with.
I could never imagined I had a life before children!
My children and grandchildren mean everything to me.
I wouldn’t have it any other way!!
I wish I looked like her after my kids were born!
Love her comments. How right she is.
Boy, I can relate! I remember after giving birth to my first child, I felt so unbelievably proud and in love with this new tiny life! I felt as if I were the only person in the history of the world to have accomplished such an awesome thing as giving birth. Interestingly, a few months earlier I had overcome my fear of giving birth by coming to the realization that, although I had no direct evidence of it, it was quite possible that someone, at some point, had done something like this before. I call this kind of logic Bellavision.
Ciao, Bella
“Bellavision” — I like your term. And yes, I have a feeling it has been done before. I don’t know, just call it a hunch.
I was complaining to a co-worker once about all the things I couldn’t do anymore because I’m a mother now. She told me, “You’re not making a convincing case for motherhood. I’m not so sure I want to have kids now.” My response? “Here’s my case: given everything I now know about motherhood, if I had it to do all over again — I wouldn’t change a thing. I’d do it all again in a heartbeat.”