Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.
It's funny to be playing a mom. I mean, I'm not a mom in real life. I don't even have a dog.
I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.
And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.
As a mom, you have all these situations you go through, and you're like, 'What is going on? Is this normal? Is this a phase? Or what is this?' and then you feel silly for asking questions because you think, 'I'm a mom - I'm supposed to know these things,' but you don't.
It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'
I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
I know plenty of people who don't have children. And I also get a lot of people who say, 'Thank you for speaking out; my family don't understand why I don't want kids.'
I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.
As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being.