As we celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday, let’s take a moment to recognize that although it’s been a tough year on everyone, it’s especially been challenging for moms! Navigating a global pandemic while also being there for your children has proven to be an unusual challenge. Celebrity moms have been candid and vulnerable about their struggles, their triumphs, and the lessons they’ve learned while raising their kids in a pandemic.
From Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, opening up about her heartbreaking miscarriage to Amy Schumer keeping it real about her less-than-glamorous quarantine, these stars haven’t sugarcoated the good, the bad, or the ugly.
Here’s what some of your favorite celebrity moms had to say:
Ashley Graham
The model and her husband, Justin Ervin, welcomed their first child together, son Isaac, last January, just before America went into lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“I got an extended maternity leave that I never thought I would get, so that was really the silver lining in all of it,” Graham told ET in February. “I had eight months straight with him, that me and Justin got to spend with him, so that was so beautiful.”
Graham talked about the struggles she’s faced so far.
“Being a parent, a lot of it is trial and error,” she shared. “Looking for help, building up confidence along the way and just having enough confidence in yourself that Mom and Dad know what’s best for the baby. And forgiving yourself along the way.”
She also told ET that she’s trying to help eliminate any stigma around breastfeeding in public and on social media.
“To me, breastfeeding, whether you do it or don’t do it as a mother, like, it should just be normalized,” she continued. “Just like anything else when it comes to being a parent. Everybody parents differently, everybody treats their body differently. So to post yourself breastfeeding should be normalized just as much as giving your child a bottle.”
Drew Barrymore
The talk show host and actress got real about parenting amid the pandemic during her appearance on the Today show last April. While talking about balancing her work and educating her two daughters — Olive, 8, and Frankie, 6 — Barrymore admitted that she “cried every day.”
“I don’t know if there are good days and bad days. I think there are good hours and bad hours… I cried every day, all day long,” she confessed. “It was like every church and state. It was the messiest plate I’ve ever held in my life to be the teacher, the parent, the disciplinarian, the caretaker.”
“I didn’t think I needed to respect and appreciate teachers any more than I did,” she added. “Then you start to get some systems and you see people on social media making lists and you’re like, ‘Aaarghh!’ You find your way. You’re resilient.”
ET recently spoke with Barrymore and she talked about her meaningful bedtime routine with her daughters.
“I have been making a gratitude list at night,” she shared. “This is a new thing for me, but my daughters are involved and we clock things and people and names to put on the list,” The Drew Barrymore Show host shared
