Robin Wright Penn Talks Being Single To Redbook
Robin Wright Penn is starting her life over as a single mom to her two kids Dylan, 18, and Hopper, 16. She separated with husband, Sean Penn, after 20 years. She is living life for herself and her children and that becomes about her career. Robin talked to Redbook in the November 2009 issue about her adjustments and how life is going now. Here are the highlights:
On putting her kids first: “I really wanted to be a mom. I didn’t want my kids to be raised by a nanny, which would have been the case if I were working two movies in a year, you know? And I would have been hospitalized with fatigue. So that’s where the no-brainer came in. I did what I wanted to do: I raised my kids.”
On role-model moms: “You are the model for them. And yet you’d better follow the model that you’re speaking. The experience is such a great teacher. Like that moment when your child’s voice comes back to you: ‘Well, why should I? You don’t, Mom.’ I was -texting the other day and almost veered into -oncoming traffic. My daughter said, ‘You’re out of your mind.’… [She] said, “I’m putting the phone in the trunk because you’re just relentless.”
On learning to let go of her daughter going to school: “It’s humanly impossible to take it all in at once. I mean, back to the concept of, who am I supposed to be in the safe place? I’m now in that thing where I’m not, “I should, you should, dot dot dot.” How about just, “I am. With all my flaws and foibles.” Just, “I am.” Looking at the world, it’s not so much the absolutism of “I want, I will be.” I look at what I’m not. I look out there and go, “I’m not that, I’m not that. Therefore I am.”"
On feeling new: New beginnings, definitely. For me, my career too. My kids are older now.
Photo Source: Cover Awards
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