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In honor of Mother’s day on Sunday, USA Today has new quotes from some celebrity moms on how being a mother has changed their lives. I have a three and a half year old son, and some of these quotes really made me nod and others got me a little choked up. There is nothing that I’ve experienced in life that has changed me more than being a mother. I especially related to what Kate Hudson said about how you have to be careful how you influence your children because they’re so observant. Maybe it’s because we both have sons around the same age, but her thoughts really rang true to me. Most everyone said that being a mother has influenced them to try and be a better person.
Kate Hudson says Ryder, 4, has made her slow down and appreciate more
“I’m very impatient. I like to get things done. I move fast. Patience has been something he’s teaching me. Your children teach you so much. It’s a real mirror of yourself. You recognize the things you do directly affect your children. It hopefully allows you to be more conscious of them and yourself and your actions. When you have kids, it goes so fast. I felt like I was pregnant last weekend, but he’s 4 and he’s talking and he’s gathering his ideas and learning who he is. It’s so easy to step in and fix things and make everything right, but you have to let him figure things out on his own. That’s one of my favorite things to do, to watch how they treat other kids and how they observe other people. Your life becomes about your children. I wake up every morning and I hear his voice, and that’s my favorite thing in the world. There’s nothing like it.”
[From USA Today]
Helen Hunt says her daughter Melenka, 3, inspires her to be calm and relaxed
“It gives me real motivation to try and be the person I want to be. You tell them to be patient. But they’ll do what you do and not what to say. If I want her to be relaxed, I have to be relaxed. Or at least try as hard as I can to seem relaxed. If I want her to be patient, I have to be patient. If I want her to be kind, I have to be kind. I have a deep wish for her to be happy and serene, and it makes me want to do everything I can to be happy and serene.”
Thandie Newton says her daughters Ripley, 7, and Nico, 3, inspire her to be a better person
“I’ve learned the value of stripping it down to the basics: love, respect, compassion, stillness, to be interested, to be able to absorb the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My god. It was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment. And it was just dish to me. To actively attempt to be a good mother is basically attempting to be a good person. I never look at my kids and feel that they’re mine. I am their caretaker. They own the joint. It’s a privilege to be able to take care of them. With my first daughter, I remember waking up and thinking, ‘My god, I get to be her mum again today. Wow. It’s amazing.’ They just take my breath away. All I do is serve themselves back to themselves. My job is just to provide a secure environment where they can just be themselves. It’s the cycle that keeps going forward. You give to them, so they can give to their kids. You have to be delighted by that.”
Salma Hayek on how Valentina, 7 months, brought out a pure kind of love in her
“You learn so much. Listen to her. She’s in the background. Do you hear that strange noise she makes (like a purr, or a rolled r)? It’s the French in her. It’s hilarious. What I learned as a mother is that I have a strong love for things. But the quality of your love gets jaded over the years as you get beat up. What motherhood did to me, when she was born, the amount of love that started pouring out of me was completely pure. Anything anyone ever did to me was erased by this energy. I relearned how to love everything around me, too. My baby is the best thing that has happened to me in my life. It’s the most amazing thing.”
Kate Hudson and Ryder are shown out on 3/22/08 in Miami, thanks to Splash News.
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in Helen Hunt, Kate Hudson, Kids, Salma Hayek, Thandie Newton
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I love that cover up Kate is wearing which pisses me off because I know that sucker must cost more than my electric bill and I’m not likely to find it on the cheap anywhere.
Kate is a great mother and I think she loves her son very much but if she doesn’t realize how much he is observing when she brings different guys around to hang out with him, then she is dropping the ball. Here’s to hoping she will find someone who will stay in Ryder’s life.
I didn’t know Thandie had kids. I bet they are gorgeous!
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headache — I don’t think it’s fair to say Kate Hudson shouldn’t bring around different guys. How can you tell a woman not to date, whether she has a child or not? She has never seemed like the sleeping around type to the point where she’d be bringing home a different guy every night. She seems like she is dedicated to her child first and herself second.
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She is young and active so of course she should have an active dating life. I’m not saying anything against that at all.
It’s just easier on the child if you don’t introduce them to someone until you feel that the relationship is serious, committed and long term.
I can’t imagine anything more heartbreaking to a child then getting a new friend to look up to and have fun with only to have him disappear three or six months later. Doesn’t matter how you explain it to him. Poor thing already has niggling thoughts that he’s the reason mommy and daddy don’t live together any more. Now he’s wondering if maybe the guy didn’t like him or if he did something wrong.
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Why in gods name would you ever call your child Ryder.
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I think Kate Hudson is a wonderful lady. She’s young and should have fun. When you see her with her son, That’s all there is. She’s a wonderful mother. When she’s doing her own thing, her son isn’t around. Probably with the grandparents. Give her a break… she’s doing fine.
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im sorry, but her kid is ugly
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salma gave up being beautiful to be loved for more than a beautiful woman. and now she laughs at the woman she used to be.
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halle berry gave up the troubles of wealth and the lies of men claiming to love her for her beauty, when all she has ever needed was someone to have fun with and to love her for the ridiculous clown that she is.
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angelina jolie has given up strength and power to lose herself and marvel at how truly powerful and beautiful a fragile life can be.
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katherine holmes has given up being the sensual splendor that men chase after, and is enjoying the chase after her dream no matter how trivial and impossible it is to catch.
here kitty, kitty, kitty. pf. nothing but love.
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Herman B, STFU
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