Motherhood is tough, and these celebrities who’ve been there and are still doing that know best.
These hard truths of motherhood are painfully funny – but also funnily painful in all its truthfulness.
So your kid enters the world…
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“Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.” — Carol Burnett
…And it comes with lots of baggage in the years to come as well.
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“Becoming a mom to me means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse. [Mine] is always filled with stuff I didn’t put there, from leftover Tootsie Rolls to wet wipes that got squished to the bottom.” — Nia Vardalos
Sleep becomes but a dream.
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“Now that I have kids, I’m up at 5:30 a.m. no matter what. Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I’m looking forward to investigating in the future.” — Amy Poehler
You begin to question whether any mum really knows what they’re doing…
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“I don’t really have one strong [parenting] philosophy. Maybe “Live in the moment?” … In more trying times, I suppose my parenting philosophy is “Try not to lose your shit.”” — Rachel Dratch
… Apparently not.
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“We spend the first 12 months of our children’s lives teaching them how to walk and talk and the next 12 telling them to sit down and shut up.” — Phyllis Diller
But at the end of the day, it all pays off.
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“I’m really clear about my priority in life — it’s being a mom … I love doing films, but I wouldn’t like to do that more than I’d like to be my daughter’s mother.” — Teri Hatcher
And there’s nothing more important than your child.
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“Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it’s just as important to sit down and ask my son how he’s feeling or talk to him about life.” — Angelina Jolie
By Pinky Chng, May 2016
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