The first, last, and only arbiter of your reproductive choices, The Hunger Games actress Elizabeth Banks, says you’re a big fat phony if you’ve only ever pushed one baby out of you. Because f**k your life choices, that’s why, Banks said this in a recent interview with People Magazine: ‘Two [kids] is very different from one. When you have one kid, you feel like you can jet set around and you can throw him on the hip and you get your life done. You don’t realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I’m really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious… I am responsible for two people now.’
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“Now I’m really a mom!” (after two kids) Probably one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard. I challenge Ms. Banks to live like REAL moms all over the country do. You know, the moms who don’t have millions of dollars and moms who actually have to work all day, every day, all year round. As an only child I am offended that this snot who is younger than I am thinks she is someone more of a mother than my own was. I guess its a good thing there isn’t an IQ test for Hollywood. This ditz has no common sense.
No where in this paragraph does it mention that Elizabeth Banks used a surrogate twice and didn’t carry or deliver her own children, so for her to throw shade at people who only have one kid is silly.
I’m not saying that carrying your child makes you more or less of a mother, but she doesn’t have a lot of room to judge.
I have one because she had heart surgery and my pregnancy was terrible. I may not be a real mom Ms Banks but I’ve carried my child inside me, and I spend everyday with her instead of jet setting… Oh wait, I am a real mom!
i think people are overreacting. she was saying SHE didn’t feel like a real mom until she had her second child. and that it didn’t set in until she had two children.
no need to throw shade at her for using surrogates, she had fertility problems, she didn’t do it for no reason.
I have one child, it is simply impossible to love that kid anymore than we do, but the original “plan” was to have 3-4. I had never heard of Secondary Infertility, but no amount of fertility drugs, specialists etc. changed that diagnosis for me, we probably could have gone further, in vitro for example, but when you have month after month of devastating disappointment for a couple years you just get tired.
I would have moved heaven and earth to have more than “Just One”, but Elizabeth Banks’ ignorant remark is pretty common. People always make ridiculous statements right to my face about how I don’t know what it’s reaaally like. Oh? you just have one? So you can’t understand what parenting reaaally is… What?
I don’t think they realize how rude and hurtful it is. It’s like they are subconsiously trying to pat themselves on the back because they are clearly superior. I mean what does one do when one kid has hockey practice and the other has to be at a birthday party AT THE SAME TIME?
I was prepared to be slightly annoyed when I clicked on this article, because I am a mother of one, but having read Elizabeth Banks’ comment, I think wat is completely correct: Banks was speaking for herself. She wasn’t extending this feeling to other women. In addition, the way you have your child (birth, surrogacy, adoption) is irrelevant – it’s how much you love and care for your child that matters.