Word: motherhood
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...tell her. No no no, don't tell her." And they all shake their heads and they won't tell me it's about to get worse even though I'm in the thick of it. It was almost like this conspiracy. This initiation into motherhood. (See the best and worst moms of all time...
...pick up any motherhood dos and don'ts from your roles in movies like Mean Girls or Baby Mama? -Michelle Rotuno-Johnson, Cincinnati, Ohio I think I would be in real trouble if I learned mothering tips from either of those movies. There was a joke in Baby Mama where there was a stroller that, when it hit something, little air bags would come out. I do want one of those...
Somewhere Dan Quayle is clenching his fists. Two decades after the then Vice President bemoaned single motherhood - calling out the sitcom Murphy Brown for having its eponymous main character choose to have a child on her own - the latest data on U.S. births show that a full 40% of babies are now born to unmarried mothers. (Read about the Quayle/Murphy Brown controversy...
...unintentional vanishing acts or inspires unfortunate experiments with surgery. Roberts could toss aside her career--unless Bernie Madoff managed her money, she shouldn't need the paycheck--but she doesn't want to. Working, she has said, brings some form into the "shapeless blob of happy chaos" that is motherhood. I've already seen Duplicity, but I'd be willing to give her my $10 just for summing up the working mother's perspective so nicely...
...Motherhood, by the way, looks good on her. Onscreen, she's lush and full: any woman who has breast-fed will recognize the source of her Duplicity cleavage. Her Claire makes Owen's Ray even more swoon-worthy; we know he appreciates a real woman. If you're nostalgic for the pretty woman in pink-and-black spandex, too bad. Roberts isn't shoehorning herself back into a prostitute's work outfit. She's too sensible to even try. All the more reason to hope she's still a trendsetter...