Jennifer Connelly Says Family Over Career
Jennifer Connelly is in no rush to line up future projects. The ‘A Beautiful Mind’ actress - who raises sons Kai, 12, and Stellan, six, with husband Paul Bettany – is perfectly content staying home to raise her children after she wraps ‘What’s Wrong With Virginia?’.
“The biggest thing for me is wanting my kids to grow up safely and have happy lives. To me that’s enough. The family is the most important thing to me. I’m very blessed. I have gorgeous, healthy, funny kids and a good husband.
“Becoming a mother has made all the difference in terms of learning to take responsibility for my life. Parenthood changed the way I do everything.”
While both Jennifer and Paul have carved out successful acting careers, neither Kai – whose father is photographer David Dugan – nor Stellan want to follow in their footsteps. She added to Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper:
“Stellan was saying for a while that he want to be an actor. “But we just went on holiday where we did a lot of snorkeling and now he’s saying he wants to be a marine biologist. Weirdly, at exactly the same age, Kai said he wanted to be a marine biologist too.”
LOL. Right now, my daughter is in the "I want to be a princess" stage. I guess it all changes with age. I think at one point I was vying to be an astronaut... didn't quite turn out that way.
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yada yada yada...we know family is important, everything changes when you have a child. wish someone would say the opposite for once just to keep it intesting. lol
^^^HAHAHAHA LOL its cuz once you are a parent you just talk shit how about bad your life was before and how now you have so much to live for blah blah blah its all bullshit. You can be happy without kids this is just a pro kid website since Vera thinks that your not really a woman until you birth a child. This is not the site for single, childless women unfortunately.
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Then why frequent her site?
I have had PLENTY of women tell me they wished they never had kids or waited until they were older cuz they never got to do anything with their lives and once you hit 40 and have done NOTHING but raise children I think you find your self worth to be rather low. And at that point you think your too old for a career and you cant travel cuz raising kids spent all your money.
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I completely disagree. I had my son "too young" (I was 22) but I wouldn't go back and change it now. Sure, there were many things I should've done before I had him, but I'll be 40 when he goes to college, and that's a looooong way from "too old for a career and... travel." Absolutely ridiculous. It's never too late to become who you were meant to be. :)
Ask a truthful woman how she feels about raising kids. It will not be all rainbows and butterflies like these women try to make it out to be. And I have a feeling Jennifer isnt getting work cuz her acting has gone to sucksville.
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As a divorced mother of one I can honestly say that I've struggled on many levels: finances, career choices, parenting tactics, location, etc, etc. I had no idea how powerful love can really be until I laid eyes on my daughter for the first time or how protective I would be over her. My struggles have been well worth it and I don't regret a thing.
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Well stated!
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Well done. I can't imagine any (good, loving, "normal") parent actually regretting having their child(ren).
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You'd be surprised. People stun me at times.
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jennifer is in my fav movie (inventing the abbotts) love her.
I love this couple. They seem pretty grounded....for being actors that is.
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I love this couple. Just fantastic!
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Good for her. You only get one childhood and it lasts a lifetime.
I love this couple. Just fantastic!
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haha i wanted to be an astronaut too lol....that changed :p
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