
Amy Poehler sure is a busy mom, working and having two children, Archie, 2, and Abel, 6 months, with husband, Will Arnett. She recently talked to PopEater about the chaos that goes on in her family, the paparzzi and what she watches on TV. Here are the highlights:
On having her kids so close together: It’s the way it kind of happened. There’s a certain chaos that is kind of fun. Like when you already have one kid in diapers and all that stuff you might as well just keep it going. I feel very blessed and very lucky to even have kids. I kind of count each one as a straight up blessing. But yes, it’s total madness. You really, really learn the lesson of just living in the moment because you just can’t plan anything. Kids just really teach you to just enjoy this now because five minutes from now, you could be losing it.
On how the kids names start with the same letter: It’s funny, we call them our double A batteries. We didn’t plan it; it just came out that way.
On what she watches on TV: I barely watch any comedies, that’s not my idea of fun. I’m not joking. It’s not a vacation to watch comedy on TV. It’s probably the opposite of what happens to people who work on really dramatic shows. After a really long day of super comedy time with my friends, I just want to watch a show about hoarders or something.
On her favorite junk food: I just straight up love Doritos, with nothing else, with just my mouth and hands. It’s by far my worst junk food. It just feels like, come on, you know you can’t eat Doritos, but I love them so much. Unfortunately I’m also a Diet Coke person, and when you live out in LA where everybody’s going on hikes and drinking green juices and going on cleanses, Diet Coke doesn’t really flow.
On the paparazzi around her kids: It’s a bummer; it’s just not great to get your picture taken. If you’re just hanging out with your kid at a park, your kid can get a little scared, and that’s kind of stressful. I don’t like that thing of dressing up my kids and parading them around, so it’s not great, I don’t love it. In LA, the photographers just stand outside of a park. If it was New York, they’d get chased out. For some reason California puts up with it; it’s very strange.
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