In honor of her Zoe Saldana's birthday, we’ve rounded up 12 thoughtful quotes about parenthood from the actor.
The actress and her husband, Marco Perego-Saldana, have three sons ― twins Cy and Bowie and their little brother Zen. Since becoming a mom in 2014, she has spoken about her experience in a number of interviews, touching on gender stereotypes, work-life balance, the value of having support and more.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin via Getty Images‘Don’t you want a girl?’
The reality is our family is complete as it came, and we’re very happy and proud of them. We don’t feel like we’re missing anything. It’s funny because now that I have the three boys, I can’t really picture myself with anything else. It’s like, we have enough children. Our mission is to raise decent, amazing, compassionate men who will then pick partners ― whether they’re females or males ― that will pick partners, and hopefully I’ll get to have the daughters later .
. ... I don’t want to raise kids who put other people’s priorities first. They need to know how to put their priorities where they need to be. You show them how you fight for your dreams.”“I’m raising three boys as someone who has done three movies that have become franchises. My boys are obsessed with female superheroes. And we have to“Throughout the years that I’ve been in this business, women that hide in a cave and they don’t come out until they’re a size zero.
“As mommies sometimes we forget [to be nice]. We’re caught raising and teaching and disciplining and cooking and cleaning and not enough time to play. I think that when I’m being too boring. They go, ‘Mama, be nice, sit down and play with me.’ That’s what they’re teaching me.”“Their input has begun with their shoes. They just choose what they want to wear. So they have different pairs of glittery, bright pink trainers, and those are the shoes that they always choose. We get them their masculine ones. They don’t like those., the glitter bright pink ones, and we’re like, so be it. My husband and I, we don’t like to just stick to like the boys’ section.
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