Cool Mom Move: Julia Roberts’ Kids Have No Idea She’s Famous
In the April issue of Vanity Fair, Roberts, who stars in the upcoming comedy Mirror Mirror (based on Snow White), dishes on life as a celebrity mom. The best part is reading the story she shares about chatting with Meryl Streep‘s daughter, 25-year-old Grace Gummer, on growing up in a famous family. The actors appeared together in Larry Crowne, and Roberts recalls the following scenario:
“Grace comes up and goes, ‘Gosh, it’s so sweet seeing all your kids on the set. It reminds me of when I was little, and I would go see my mom at work.
I asked, ‘Were you happy?’ Suddenly, I thought, here is a source of information. I asked, ‘How old were you when you realized your mom was Meryl Streep?’
She said, ‘I think I was probably nine when I put that all together.’
“I said, ‘Were you cool with it?’
She said, ‘Yeah, it was fine. There was no trauma.’ So that was hopeful.”
In the April issue of Flare magazine, Nicole Richie shares a similar sentiment about her 4-year-old, Harlow Winter Kate. “She has no ideas that she has two [fashion] lines named after her I try and let her be a kid,” Richie explains (she’s also mom to a 2-year-old boy, Sparrow James Midnight).
I must say, kudos to Roberts and Richie for being so down-to-earth when it comes to their children. Granted, it should automatically be this way (i.e., famous parents protecting their children from the spotlight), but not everyone’s so grounded. Something tells me that Blue Ivy, for instance, will have a pretty good idea where she comes from by the time she’s the ripe old age of 18 months. Just sayin’…