17 Celebrities Speak Out About Being Child-Free by Choice
06.07.2022 - 21:19
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Bridget Jones' Baby, Renée Zellweger says being a mom isn't something she's ever strived for. “Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don’t think like that,” she told in 2004.
“I never have expectations like, ‘When I’m 19, I’m going to do this, and by the time I’ve hit 25, I’m going to do that.’ I just take things as they come, each day at a time, and if things happen, all well and good. I just want to be independent and be able to take care of myself. Anything else is just gravy.”While her friends were dreaming about having children, Oprah Winfrey was dreaming about becoming the next Martin Luther King Jr.
"If I had kids, my kids would hate me," she told in 2013. "They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me, because something [in my life] would have had to suffer, and it would've probably been them."The Grace and Frankie star revealed to Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show back in 1973 that she didn't want children—and Lily Tomlin still stands by her feelings. "Oh yeah, that’s perfectly fine for somebody who wants to.
But at that time I didn’t want to—and I’m glad I don’t—have any children," she told in 2006. "God only knows what I would have done with them, poor things. I really do like kids, but there wouldn’t have been room in my life to raise children.
I was so involved with my career, and I would have had to give up the career in large part because I could not possibly have shortchanged the child."By Bianca LondonBy Whitney Perry By Christopher RosaEllen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi seem like they'd be the two best celebrity moms ever, but DeGeneres admits she doesn't want to mess anything up. "Honestly, we’d probably be great parents. But it’s a human being, and unless you think
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