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It takes a village to raise a child, butJenny Mollenwill be the first to tell you that said village doesn’t magically make parenthood a simple task.
The actress,Live Fast Die Hotauthor and mother of two opened up in herMinimagazinefall 2018 cover story about how she and husbandJason Biggswrangle their sonsLazlo, 1, andSid, 4½.
“My husband and my nanny help me juggle but at the end of the day, nothing makes it easy,” she said. “The guilt that comes with being a mom is there when you are with them and when you aren’t.”
“I don’t think there is ever one perfect balance,” Mollen added.
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The outlet couldn’t resist asking the star about thecreative, healthy school lunchesMollen puts together for her older son, which is a practice she took up after having “a live-in nanny for the first three years of Sid’s life” and not having spent much time doing it during that period.
“Then one day,I think when I was pregnantand nesting, I just found myself compelled to make the extra effort,” she recalled. “I was probably feeling guilty.”
“Now I think I do it because I’m making up for my own childhood deficit where I never had anyone doing that kind of thing for me,” Mollen admitted.
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As her boys grow up, theAngelalum wants to “raise men who do not see people in terms of their sex,” she toldMinimagazine,explaining,“Iwant sons who respect womenbut also value their voices and contributions as much as they do those of men.”
Mollen has a very specific idea of what shedoesn’twant her sons to become, too. “I’m also raising kids in Manhattan so I am very conscious of not letting them turn into little privileged, white,coke heads,” she joked.
source: people.com
