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Sarah Jessica Parker Is Supermom
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Sarah Jessica Parker must be gunning for a Mother of the Year Award. The actress, who recently had twins via surrogate with husband Matthew Broderick, told Elle magazine this month, “I love the smell of diapers.” Not stopping there, Parker added, “I even like them when they’re wet and you smell them all warm like a baked good.” Steel yourself for her next perfume launch. The mother of 7-year-old James Wilkie also said of the new arrivals, “I have a fear that they’re not going to like me.” But they’ll probably manage: “The only tragedy would be if [the twins’] feet are bigger than mine,” she said with an eye to her coveted collection of designer shoes.
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crymeariver
Supermom? Give me a freaking break. Of course she has all the energy in the world. She out-sourced her pregnancy and doesn't have to worry about recovering from 9 months of carrying twins in her womb, post-delivery pains, breast-feeding or post-partum depression. In addition to having nannies to do most of the childcare.
Call up the average mom who had to go through 9 months of backpain, G.I. upset, swollen ankles and a swollen belly in addition to the trauma of child birth. The average mom who has to take care of twins by herself, breast-feed or pump and worry about the cost of diapers.
This article is pretty insulting to the REAL supermoms out there.
LynDale
Dear CryMeARiver - I think it was a joke - like, um, sarcasm - I'm pretty sure "Supermom" is exactly the opposite of what the author was thinking - Just a thought, though
Lilli917
Yawn.......please tell us more.
Granite
This must have been written by a childless person. All moms love the smell of their kids poop and can tell the difference between their kid's pooh and a strange baby's pooh.
Every mom feels overwhelmed--especially with newborn twins. It amazing how much you forget about how hard it was to have newborns when you haven't had a newborn in the house for a couple years. Bad memories fade fast!
@ bitch-up-a-storm--I mean crymeariver--I don't why she outsourced, but the logical explanation is infertility. I consider myself lucky to have gone through the agony of pregnancy. I suspect you are childless. Every mom knows that it is a miraculous gift and hell on every aspect of your being.
Learn this life lesson: Big sacrifices equal big rewards.
crymeariver
Granite-
you are an idiot. Have a 5-year old re-read my post to you since you obviously didn't get it. It doesn't matter WHY she got a surrogate. The point is you can't call someone a supermom who didn't have to go through pregnancy, child-birth, breast-feeding, and sole-responsibility for child care. Parker is a super rich celebrity with money, time, and nannies.
Like LynDale said, the author IS probably being sarcastic since Parker is anything BUT the definition of a supermom.
sarabh
crymeariver, you obviously do not know any adoptive Moms. As an adopted child of an unbelievable woman who could not bear her own children - I find it INCREDIBLY insulting to say "You can't call someone a supermom who didn't have to go through pregnancy..." My mom was devastated to not "have to go through pregnancy," but she became the SUPERmom of four adopted kids becuase she want to be a mother above all. I hope you don't have children to impart this type of ignorance and bias to....
MaeQueen
Of course she loves the smell - she doesn't have to change them! I always get a kick out of the new crop of movie stars who try to act like they're just "regular folk", you know, doing the shopping and taking care of the kiddies...but the interesting thing is - there's always a photographer around to snap them working so hard at being parents!
I love the era when movie stars gloried in their fame and fortune - honestly and openly - because they had earned it. I have little respect for stars who pander to us masses on such a phoney level.
Demsdisorder
I don't understand why Mrs Parker who is capable of giving life would chose to not. then came to love smelly diapers. AaA... GROSS................. and people think we have problems
tolatetocry
Babies are "must have" accessory for today's Cosmo woman!
Housebird
What wonderfully exciting news !!!!
The lovely couple instead of their planned divorce.are planning more years of "torture".
The World needs more solutions like this one ---- NOT.
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MaliciousDisorder
This, the chick that can't even have her own kids for her professional sake. I'll bet the nanny is the only mom the kids know. Kids to her are just another acting job.
nortonclybourn
Is misogyny the nature of your malicious disorder? You seem a bit touchy on the subject of Moms. Hmmm.
Ankhorite
It's nobody's business why SJP used a surrogate. Period.
Although, being gossipy, it's hard not to speculate -- is she too thin for fertility? etc. -- but we should recognize that all we are doing is gossiping and that we have no right to get smarmy about whatever we imagine her reasons to be.
She has two kids, who will be supported all their lives and never a burden on the public. Your tax dollars aren't paying for their diapers, so why the nastiness?
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