By Caroline Picard and Selena Barrientos, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
These Hollywood starlets might be regulars on the red carpet, but their toddlers don’t care. Temper tantrums just come with the territory for these famous mothers, and they're not afraid to get real with some very relatable (and super funny) observations.
Ellie Kemper
"I didn’t fully wrap my head around the fact that there would be a person at the end of it. I read endlessly about pregnancy and what to eat and what not to eat. And then I sort of prepared not at all for the actual baby."
Shona Rhimes
"Twelve years later the memories of those nights, of that sleep deprivation, still make me rock back and forth a little bit. You want to torture someone? Hand them an adorable baby they love who doesn’t sleep."
Ali Wong
"I didn’t expect to be so comfortable handing my child off to a nanny without getting any of her information. As soon as she arrived at my house, I threw my baby in her arms and went to Target. She gave me her driver’s license a week after - she was like, ‘Uh, you should probably have my address, since you gave me the keys to your house and your child.’ And we were like, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s probably a good idea.’"
Kristen Bell
"Every day when you're raising kids, you feel like you could cry or crack up and just scream 'This is ridiculous!' because there's so much nonsense, whether it's what they're saying to you or the fact that there's avocado or poop on every surface.”
Emily Blunt
"After we got home from the hospital, I didn’t shower for a week, and then John and I were like, 'Let’s go out for dinner.’ I could last only about an hour because [I needed to breastfeed]. When the milk first comes in, it’s like a tsunami. But we went, just to prove to ourselves that we could feel normal for a second."
Tina Fey
"Ah, babies. They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts."
Reese Witherspoon
"I always say if you aren't yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them."
Anna Faris
"'I don't think so mommy!' is what my child said after, 'Can you please pick up the popcorn you threw all over?'"
Chrissy Teigen
"No one told me I would be coming home in diapers, too."
Julia Roberts
“Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty."
Amy Poehler
"Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I'm looking forward to investigating in the future."
Julie Bowen
"Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.”
Jennifer Garner
"You know how once you have kids you never ever pee by yourself again? At least one of them is always in there with you at all times."
Christina Applegate
"Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of her and I go, 'Ah, we accomplished this together.'"
Olivia Wilde
"If I wasn't at work, I just wanted to stay home and party with my little man - and by 'party' I mean, of course, endless rounds of 'Itsy Bitsy Spider.'"
Serena Williams
"I've conquered a lot of things ... blood clots in my lungs - twice ... knee and foot surgeries ... winning Grand Slams being down match point ... to name just a few, but I found out by far the hardest is figuring out a stroller!"
Mila Kunis
"Stop saying ‘we’re pregnant.’ You’re not pregnant. Do you have to squeeze a watermelon-sized person out of [you]? No."
Carrie Underwood
"The majority of my diet is made up of foods that my kid didn't finish."
Maya Rudolph
"[Having four kids is] endless stuff. It’s endless entertainment, it’s endless stress, endless responsibility. Everyone’s at different ages and levels, everyone’s into different stuff. But everyone is into slime."
Phyllis Diller
"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."
