Knocked Up Celebs

Uma Thurman is a busy mom to kids, Maya, 11, and Levon, 7, and is now in a movie called Motherhood, which premiered on Friday. It is a movie that takes place in one day and is about … Motherhood.  Uma recently caught up with iVillage and talked about the movie, parenting and not always getting it right. Here are the highlights from the interview.

On what attracted her to the role of Eliza: [Writer-director] Katherine [Dieckmann] articulated an experience that I felt that I alone had: a time when your children are very young and you find yourself as a person, and find yourself as a mother. There is nothing in the world more healing than to realize that it’s a shared experience — the imperfections, the realness of the woman, the sincerity and the genuine love that she infuses mothering with. And, yet, it still includes the whole rest of it — the passions, the frustrations, and unmet needs and ego and struggle with self-control, all these issues that don’t go away when you become a parent.

On what has changed with her children being older: When the kids were very little, and all the labors and the hormonal thing, the labor of the pregnancy, I felt like I turned into a plant. I felt like the skin on my body no longer had salt on it. It’s slowly reemerging back and feeling the essence of being a woman independent of your responsibility of mothering, and still being a mother, and recognizing the fault line between you and your expectations and somehow forgiving yourself, which is really hard to do. I guess I should try it and see how hard it is! [laughs].

On how her perspective has changed: With my daughter, I have to remind myself that you’re raising them to be women, not little girls. Not to take away the child but you have to nurture their independence and see that they have survival skills so that they can go on with their lives. It’s the saddest thing to be left, to have your heart broken that way. But if that doesn’t happen, you’ve made a mistake because you’ve handicapped a person, not helped them along.

Be sure to catch her in her new movie. I know I can’t wait to see it!

[Images by WENN.com]

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