Knocked Up Celebs

Jennie Garth has to be one of the luckiest women alive, being married to Peter Facinelli, being on the hit TV show 90210, and a mom to three girls. How does she do it all? She recently talked to Babble about her parenting advice, wanting more children and body image. Here are the highlights:

On her parenting philosophy: Consistency. Kids need routine — have a bedtime, stick to it, do your homework before you turn on the TV. I’m very old-fashioned.

On wanting to have another baby: I just want another baby. I love a big family. I’d love to have a little boy because I’d love to have a mini-Peter (laughs). I’d want to dress him in a little wife-beater like a little Italian boy, but who knows what will happen? One second [Peter’s] on board with it, and the next he’s like “maybe,” because three girls in one house is intense. There’s a lot of emotion in my house, which can be exhausting.

On how she explains body image to her kids: My weight goes up and down. I run the show, and Peter’s the main attraction. [My girls have] seen me thin, they’ve seen me heavy, but they don’t even notice because it’s not something we focus on. My first daughter, Luca, is twelve and an Amazon. She’s so athletic and fit in every sense of the word. Lola is seven, and I think she might be a little more affected by people’s perceptions of her. We focus on making her feel beautiful all the time. When she was younger, we put her on steroids to battle her juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, which affected her weight, so it’s something she thinks about. But I wouldn’t want my first-grader to think of herself as anything but beautiful or perfect.

On what shocked her the most about being a parent: How it’s so not about me anymore. I’m literally the last person on my list of people to deal with in the day. I actually have to remind myself at the end of the day to do things for myself. So it shocked me that I would be able to put someone else so far in front of my own needs — and love it.

On her biggest parenting challenge: I run the household so when I’m on the computer or in the kitchen, I may seem distracted to my kids. I’m RSVPing to birthday parties, making the grocery list, or scheduling the tennis lessons. I focus so much on orchestrating everything that sometimes I have to remind myself to step out of that and get down on the floor and play puzzles, or give hugs.

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