Knocked Up Celebs

Hugh Grant is on the cover of the November 2009 issue of Parade magazine. With parenting and babies on his mind he talks to the magazine about his hopes. Here are the highlights:

On wanting to be a father: “Ten years ago, I wouldn’t have thought about having children at all. But now I have so many nephews and nieces and cousins and godchildren, I like the thought. But that’s on the basis that I can leave after 10 minutes. I don’t know what it would be like 24 hours a day. I think I’d have a lot of nannies.”

On if he would be a good dad: “Yes, I do rather. I find I’m not as bad with children as I used to be.”

On his approach on parenting: “I see a lot of children over-parented now, by my standards. Over-adored, over-spoiled. I quite like the children left alone to get on with it.”

On what he calls ‘love avoidance’: “If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy’s little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships. You want to repeat this smothering thing, and you are very adept at bringing people in to love you, love you, and as soon as they get close enough, you push them away. Then you bring them back and push them away again. You can go on torturing people like that for ages.”

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