Sienna Miller explains the "curse of motherhood:" Do you agree?

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Carolyn Robertson

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From a distance, it sometimes seems like celebrity moms have it all figured out. Well, looks can be deceiving.

Sure, they have hired help and enviable schedules, but when it comes right down to it, those rick and famous folks are trying to make sense of motherhood just like the rest of us.

Take Sienna Miller, for example. The British-born star, who split from actor Tom Sturridge earlier this year, is now a single mom to 3-year-old daughter Marlowe. In a new interview with Vogue magazine, she admits that she's definitely not "Super-Mom."

First of all, Sienna explains, she suffers from the utter exhaustion that comes from having kids: “Obviously when you have a baby it’s the most incredible experience but your life is also catapulted into this chaos and you are exhausted," she says. "I could literally get on this table and fall asleep."

Then there's what Sienna, 33, calls "the curse of motherhood."

"I’d like to be better at managing things; I’d like to be more super – although we’re never going to feel it, even if we are. That’s the curse of motherhood – we just run ourselves ragged. I’m just trying to get a sense of what that guilt is. I sometimes feel like it’s a totally invented emotion. It’s strange to be punishing ourselves this way. It’s not healthy.”

I'm tempted to roll my eyes at anyone including the words "curse" and "motherhood" in the same sentence, but after reading Sienna's description I must admit that I understand where she's coming from.

Between preschool and playdates, making meals and breaking up fights, just about every mom I know would be hard pressed to find 10 spare minutes in her day. Despite that, just about every mom I know also feels guilty about something. Whether it's going to work or staying at home, what their kids eat or where they sleep, how much screen time they get or who they spend their time with - we all seem to find plenty of things to stew over and worry about, plenty of reasons to wonder if we're doing things right.

I agree with Sienna that it's probably not healthy, and I worry (see? There it is again!) that it's not the best example to set for my kids. Is that guilt just an inevitable part of motherhood? Or have you found a way to ditch it for good?

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