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There’s not a perfect mom in this world, not even those who appear to have it all, from luxuries and comforts through fame and recognition. To believe it, you just have to read what four of the six actresses who play the main roles in the upcoming movie Bad Moms, a comedy about family and motherhood, said recently.
Days ago, a group of bloggers had the chance to participate in an honest and fun conversation with Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, Christina Applegate, and Annie Mumolo. The actresses talked, without mincing words, about those times when they’ve been “bad" or "guiltless" moms, or about those times when they’ve lost their temper and why.
Of course Mila is the mom who has had less difficulties in regards to motherhood because her daughter Wyatt is only 21 months old, and her second offspring is on his way. (Check out the picture I took of her just when she was reaching for something sugary. Her belly is barely noticeable although she’s five months pregnant.)
But having been a mom for less than two years doesn’t mean she hasn’t made monumental mistakes, such as when she drove for a long stretch in a Los Angeles’ freeway without noticing she hadn't fastened her 8-month-old baby’s harness.
“I put her in the car. Like, I high five myself. I’m driving down the 101,”, Mila recalled. “And I was like oh, my God, I’m doing really good today. And she was being really quiet, and I was like, oh, let me look in the rear view mirror to make sure everything’s okay. And I look, and she’s happy as can be, but just not nearly strapped in.”
Mila’s face got white, she said, and she parked along the highway, jumped to the back seat, fastened the baby and continued driving. She had sworn not to tell to anybody, ever. But as soon as she reached her destination, where her husband, the actor Ashton Kutcher, was working, she burst into tears. She felt comforted when, weeks ago, the same happened to her husband.
“And I opened the car door, and she’s not strapped in whatsoever. And I was like, 'Thank God.' I was so excited. I wasn't alone."
Kathryn Hahn, who plays Carla in the movie, and has two kids, a 9- year-old boy and a 6-year- old girl, confessed that when her boy was about a year and a half, he started crying like crazy for no apparent reason.
“What’s the matter? What’s the matter?” she said.
“I was checking his fingers and toes. I didn't know what he wanted— it was like he wouldn’t eat. It was like a mess. Finally I changed his diaper, and one of my hairs had wrapped itself around his nuts like five times. I almost castrated my child.”
Christina Applegate, Gwendolyn in the movie, said that her real life is very different from that of her role in the film-- a hysterical woman, perfectionist, obsessive, controlling, and manipulative. She says she has to ask her daughter, Sadie, to brush her teeth like 20 times a day. And sometimes she has hard time in waking up in the morning.
“Waking up is real rough, and I’m trying to have a better attitude with it because sometimes she would come in, and she’d be like, ‘morning, mama,’ and I’d just be like ‘hi’. And I’m like, oh, my God, that’s horrible. That’s like the first thing she sees is me just, like, resenting the fact that she’s, like, waking me up 15 minutes before my alarm has gone off, like shoving a doll in my face, going, 'there’s a string, mom. Wake up! Mom, mom, there’s a string. You need to cut it.'"
Then, she tries to explain to her daughter, in the kindest way possible that she has a father too, that he’s over on the other side of the bed and he also knows where the scissors are.
“She's like, ‘oh, Okay.’ Next morning, 5:40, ‘Mom, I can’t find Cheetah. And you’re like [crying sound]. So, that’s my hardest part:starting the day. But, once I’m up, you know, I’m good,” the actress said.
For Annie Mumolo, Vicky in the film, the worst time for her is between 4:30 p.m. and bedtime.
“The dinner to the bath to the books to the 'brush your teeth,' to 'get in your pajamas' to the bed, that whole thing to me... I need breaks in the middle,” she said. “I go in my closet. I take a few minutes and breathe. There’s wine. There’s little mini breaks and checking out and then checking back in and then like regrouping and, okay, 'We've got to get to the bath. Oh, God. Oh, my God!'”
Bad Moms, in theaters on July 29, tells the story of Amy (Mila Kunis), a wife with an apparently perfect life who one day, tired of the thousands of responsibilities she has as a mother, explodes and does everything possible to free herself from her shackles. To do that, she has to confront the powerful leader of the PTA as well as this women's sidekicks.
The message of the film is, according to Christina, “give yourself some freedom [as mothers]”.
“And it’s okay to fail. It’s okay to fail in front of your kids,” she said. “It teaches them that that’s how life goes [...]. It’s about how you get back up and how you keep moving on. We’re all in this together. And we have to help each other. We’re mothers, at the end of the day.”
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Bad Moms celebrates “Bad Mother’s Day” on July 29 – the Mother’s Day you really want and deserve! Get tickets now: http://www.badmomstickets.com/
Victoria Infante was born in México and has lived in the U.S. for 20 years. She worked as a journalist for 16 years in La Opinión, the major Spanish newspaper in the country, and now freelances for various media outlets, among them BabyCenter Latino and Jaliscocina, a Mexican website devoted to food. She has two sons, Victor,5, and Jorge Mario, 3. In her blog, sermamalatina.com, she writes about children's books, travel, movies, museums and family friendly places in Los Angeles. Find her on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
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