E! Online’s TV expert, Kristin Dos Santos, interviewed Zooey Deschanel and Megan Fox on the set of New Girl, which is celebrating their 100th episode. The fifth season premieres on Fox on January 5th. Zooey took some time off the show have her baby, daughter Elsie Otter (that’s really the name, she loves otters), born in late July. She pretaped the first five episodes of this new season and then left for maternity leave. Mild New Girl spoilers – Zooey’s character, Jess, goes away on “jury duty” around episode six, where Megan Fox comes in as a sexy pharmaceutical rep to rent Jess’ room.
Kristen asked Zooey and Megan about mom stuff, as Zooey has her four month-old baby, with her new husband, producer Jacob Pechenik, and Megan has sons Noah, 3, and Bodhi, 2, with her ex, Brian Austin Green. In the video on E!, you can tell that Kristen was trying to make Zooey comfortable but that she wasn’t sure about at first about talking about her personal life. Megan Fox was pretty open and gave Kristen some crap about some of her questions, it was funny. Sidenote: I like Kristen Dos Santos and would like to put a word in with E! to expand her role to more red carpet coverage. Here’s some of what Zooey and Megan said, and you can watch the video on E!
Zooey on how it’s going at work again
Really good, I had a baby and it’s my first baby so it was really good for the baby to have a little time with her mom. Now it’s all good I’m happy to be back at work.Kristen to Zooey: I love [your daughter’s] name. Did you know all along that’s what you wanted [to name her]?
Zooey: We didn’t know if it was going to be a boy or a girl but we had names picked out for both.Kristen to Zooey: It feels empowering [coming back to work after having a baby]. Have you gone through that?
Zooey: When you’re holding your baby, you’re like, ‘I don’t wanna go to work—this is like the best thing ever. But it’s nice, you know, I think, having a little girl, she knows her mommy works and I think that’s a good thing.Kristen to Megan Fox: How has it been for you juggling everything with having the little ones at home?
Megan: It’s tough. You feel like a lot of mother’s guilt, having to leave [your child] all the time and then at a certain point, I had to just release that and go, ‘These are my kids, these souls came through me for a reason, they’re gonna be bonded to me no matter what and this is a part of life. I have a job, I have to have a job.’ So I’m doing better with it, but it’s hard because you feel like that’s where you’re supposed to be and you’re very torn, constantly.Kristen to Megan Fox: Kids are resilient, that’s what I always tell myself
Megan: Yes because none of us carry our traumas over from our parental interactions in childhood.
Kudos to Kristen for asking Zooey about her daughter’s name. She knows how to get good quotes. Megan also talked about how her boys fight. She said that they like each other are becoming friends, but that Noah will “clothesline” Bodhi and that “he’s like a little Bruce Lee he knows all these crazy monkey fighting styles and he’s just a little baby I don’t know how he learned that. So he’ll clothesline him or jab him in the windpipe and it’s really crazy and scary because Noah is just little. He takes the abuse, that’s the younger brother’s job.” I’ve never heard of a “clothesline” move, but I guess it’s a professional wrestling attach. Boys!
As for mom guilt, I work from home with flexible hours, I have only one kid and I still deal with this every day. It’s hard to keep a work and life balance, even with my awesome job. These are celebrities so they have a lot of help and in many cases can probably bring their children on set. I can’t imagine working 9 to 5, commuting on top of that, and then having to run a household and care for more than one child. It’s got to be exhausting for so many families and especially single parents. Some parents just don’t have the luxury to even feel guilty though because they’ve got to put food on the table. I like how Zooey explained that she’s setting an example for her daughter by working too. Some moms stay home for our kids and some of us go to work to support them.
This falls 100% in line with what I’ve heard from other working moms I know.
@sochan: it falls 100% in line with what all working moms & actresses have said one hundred million times before. Change the record. Is it just me, or does every new mom in the public eye sound like she’s the first person to ever have a kid?
Eh, they were specifically asked.
I love Megan Fox. I think she’s hilarious. My parents both worked full time, and I never held a grudge of thought my parents were doing something wrong. Not sure where this movement came from. It’s called life, I didn’t know one parent that was a stay at home one.
Kristen to Megan Fox: Kids are resilient, that’s what I always tell myself
Megan: Yes because none of us carry our traumas over from our parental interactions in childhood.
is Megan’s response sarcastic? like “yeah SURE, NOBODY carries their trauma over from having parents who aren’t around enough”
or am I just reading it as sarcastic? lol
Probably. Megan is pretty funny.
I don’t see how it could not be sarcastic.
Sometimes I feel guilty because I never really had mom guilt, and then I think, “Should I have been feeling guilty back when I went to work?” I’m fortunate enough to work from home now, but that wasn’t always the case. But thus far, my children seem to have turned out okay.
Don’t feel guilty!
Don’t feel guilty, I’m jealous!!! I feel guilty about everything (I STILL feel about about that time when I was 7 and thought the display candies at the grocery store were free and ate one) so going back to work was SO hard for me and I really wish I hadn’t been so tough on my self. You go, Glen Coco!!
I think she may have meant “clothesline” not “close line”. When someone’s running at you and you put your arm out straight, and they get hit in the face/throat and hit the ground, that’s a clothesline!
I’m an idiot I’ll fix it!
I was just discussing this with my friends earlier this week. I have so much mom guilt and it sucks. I hate it. Even though I know my kids are happy and healthy, even though I know I need to work to provide for them, even though I love my job I still feel like I should quit to stay at home with them. Plus I know that my life is easier when I don’t work. I wish I didn’t feel guilty at all.
I love Zooey’s answer to that. It’s a good example, for girls OR boys! Just keep reminding yourself that you’re doing something good for your kids.
Like for this!
Don’t feel guilty. I do SAH and I feel guilty for other reasons.
Megan is great. Starting to like her as she ages. She was a hard pill to swallow in her early 20’s. She is also extremely beautiful.
Looks like Megan’s face as settled.
Well, that one that’s written quite often about the ladies of HW.
And yet no mom guilt for the fact that Zooey gave her daughter the middle name “Otter”?
Megan’s breakup seems to be agreeing with her. I hope she leaves her face alone.
Megan’s face may have settled, but her skin looks Barbie-plastic. It’s… unnatural.
I saw a photo of her from years ago and she had a tan and all these cute freckles. I don’t know what she did to acquire the plastic skin tone, but she was so much prettier before.
God, I am so tired of all the mommy guilt and it’s so hard mommy complaining. Especially from HW types. And especially the kind that implies that mommies hold the corner on the market of having difficult things in life.
I think she meant mommy guilt as in not being there physically herself to interact with her children because she has to make money and support them. I don’t think it’s necessarily complaining even though HW types are more privileged. I give her kudos fro caring to want to be more present in her kids’ lives.
I think we’re talking about guilt that specifically relates to concerns of motherhood, not some special, unapproachable guilt that only mothers can feel. Everyone has it hard in different ways, they’re talking about how being away from your child as a working mother as hard. I don’t see why that would be any different for wealthy mothers who work.
It’s Megan’s Face a different face from last year?? Or is it the lip? Either way her catface is 100% ready for a Real Housewives of L.A. Show