01of 15ON HER DESIRE TO START A FAMILYRaymond Hall/GC Images"I’ve always wanted a big family. Oh, I’d love 30 [children] if I could."— toAllurein 2012
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ON HER DESIRE TO START A FAMILY
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“I’ve always wanted a big family. Oh, I’d love 30 [children] if I could.”
— toAllurein 2012
02of 15ON PUTTING FAMILY FIRSTAndrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty"All my eggs are in one basket, and that’s my family. That’s where my heart is. That’s where my everything is. That’s the thing that I feel most protective of and the thing that I feel is the most exposed when I feel exploited."— to Marie Claire in 2016
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ON PUTTING FAMILY FIRST
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“All my eggs are in one basket, and that’s my family. That’s where my heart is. That’s where my everything is. That’s the thing that I feel most protective of and the thing that I feel is the most exposed when I feel exploited.”
— to Marie Claire in 2016
03of 15ON HER ADVICE TO NEW MOMS WHO FEEL PRESSURED TO GET THEIR PRE-BABY BODIES BACKChristopher Polk/Getty Images for People’s Choice Awards"You don’t need to be Victoria’s Secret-ready right away because you just did the most incredible miracle that life has to offer. I mean you gave birth to a human being! So I would really like to see that celebrated."— on Sunrise in 2016
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ON HER ADVICE TO NEW MOMS WHO FEEL PRESSURED TO GET THEIR PRE-BABY BODIES BACK
Christopher Polk/Getty Images for People’s Choice Awards
“You don’t need to be Victoria’s Secret-ready right away because you just did the most incredible miracle that life has to offer. I mean you gave birth to a human being! So I would really like to see that celebrated.”
— on Sunrise in 2016
04of 15ON HER ‘MUCH, MUCH EASIER’ SECOND PREGNANCYBlair Raughley/Invision/AP/Shutterstock"It’s a lot faster. You get bigger faster, too, which has been nice to try to fit into clothing strategically."— onLive with Kelly in 2016
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ON HER ‘MUCH, MUCH EASIER’ SECOND PREGNANCY
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“It’s a lot faster. You get bigger faster, too, which has been nice to try to fit into clothing strategically.”
— onLive with Kelly in 2016
05of 15ON FOLLOWING A PERFECT MOM ON INSTAGRAMAndrew Toth/Getty"Her toddler is giving her reflexology massages. What?! My kid is like playing with explosive devices. I don’t know where she found them. She already knows how to drywall because she puts holes in the wall."— on Late Night with Seth Meyersin 2016
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ON FOLLOWING A PERFECT MOM ON INSTAGRAM
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“Her toddler is giving her reflexology massages. What?! My kid is like playing with explosive devices. I don’t know where she found them. She already knows how to drywall because she puts holes in the wall.”
— on Late Night with Seth Meyersin 2016
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ON HER DAUGHTERS' DIFFERENT SLEEP SCHEDULES
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— to PEOPLE in 2017
07of 15ON HER PARENTING STYLE"I think it’s hard to slap labels on any parents because it’s just so tricky. It’s like every moment you’re figuring out what the heck you’re doing. You think, ‘Ooh, should I be more strict, or should I be more I don’t know, emotional?’ Or whatever it is. If anybody knows how to be a parent, I feel like grandparents really know how to be parents. But parents, you just figure it out as you go. So, I wouldn’t put a label on it."— to PEOPLE in 2017
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ON HER PARENTING STYLE
“I think it’s hard to slap labels on any parents because it’s just so tricky. It’s like every moment you’re figuring out what the heck you’re doing. You think, ‘Ooh, should I be more strict, or should I be more I don’t know, emotional?’ Or whatever it is. If anybody knows how to be a parent, I feel like grandparents really know how to be parents. But parents, you just figure it out as you go. So, I wouldn’t put a label on it.”
08of 15ON RAISING HER KIDS OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHTJohn Lamparski/WireImage"Ryan [Reynolds] had a nice, normal upbringing, and we want our kids to have the same normal life that we had. We don’t ever want to rob them of what we had because then we’d feel really selfish."— to Marie Claire in 2016
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ON RAISING HER KIDS OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT
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“Ryan [Reynolds] had a nice, normal upbringing, and we want our kids to have the same normal life that we had. We don’t ever want to rob them of what we had because then we’d feel really selfish.”
09of 15ON HER DAUGHTER JAMES' CHANGING LOOKSKristina Bumphrey/Starpix/REX/Shutterstock"[She] looked like [Ryan’s] doppelgänger for the first six months … She has my clammy hands! And my heavy eyelids, my meaty eyelids."— to Marie Claire in 2016
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ON HER DAUGHTER JAMES' CHANGING LOOKS
Kristina Bumphrey/Starpix/REX/Shutterstock
“[She] looked like [Ryan’s] doppelgänger for the first six months … She has my clammy hands! And my heavy eyelids, my meaty eyelids.”
10of 15ON WANTING KIDSJames Devaney/GC Images"If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would."— toMarie Clairein 2014
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ON WANTING KIDS
“If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would.”
— toMarie Clairein 2014
11of 15ON COMING FROM A BIG FAMILYDimitrios Kambouris/Getty"I’m one of five kids. My husband is one of four, so we’re officially breeders. You can go on our website and we will give you some of our children."— onTodayin 2016
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ON COMING FROM A BIG FAMILY
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“I’m one of five kids. My husband is one of four, so we’re officially breeders. You can go on our website and we will give you some of our children.”
— onTodayin 2016
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ON DAUGHTER JAMES' BABYSITTING QUALIFICATIONS
13of 15ON HER ‘REASON FOR EVERYTHING’Rob Latour/Variety/REX/Shutterstock (7567188bl"My parents, my siblings, my daughter, my husband, my nieces and nephews — that’s where I get very mama bear. There are two ways to look at it. You could look at it as, ‘That’s what I’m vulnerable about.’ But also, ‘That’s the thing that excites me in the world.’ So I don’t really think about them as my vulnerability as much as I think about them as my reason for everything."— to Marie Claire in 2016
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ON HER ‘REASON FOR EVERYTHING’
Rob Latour/Variety/REX/Shutterstock (7567188bl
“My parents, my siblings, my daughter, my husband, my nieces and nephews — that’s where I get very mama bear. There are two ways to look at it. You could look at it as, ‘That’s what I’m vulnerable about.’ But also, ‘That’s the thing that excites me in the world.’ So I don’t really think about them as my vulnerability as much as I think about them as my reason for everything.”
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ON HER DAUGHTERS’ DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES
— onLive with Kelly and Ryanin 2017
15of 15ON WHY SHE CALLS DAUGHTER INEZ A ‘BABY VIKING’Andrew Toth/Getty"I made a Cookie Monster cake … and she just looked at it and reached for a steak … She was hand-fisting two steaks. Her sleeves were dripping in blood from steak."— onThe Tonight Showin 2017
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ON WHY SHE CALLS DAUGHTER INEZ A ‘BABY VIKING’
“I made a Cookie Monster cake … and she just looked at it and reached for a steak … She was hand-fisting two steaks. Her sleeves were dripping in blood from steak.”
— onThe Tonight Showin 2017
source: people.com
