Are you a new parent currently going through it? Changing diapers? Losing sleep? Well, Maya Rudolph has a message for you… it only gets harder!
The 52-year-old actress/comedian talked to Variety recently and revealed she just had to drop her 18-year-old daughter Pearl off at college.
It’s just really confusing. Why the f— do we let them go? I’m nowhere near understanding it yet. Why did they invent parenthood this way? It’s all painful. I’m okay, but I can’t lie — it’s hard. Changing diapers was so much easier!
The good news for Maya is that she still has kids back at home. In addition to 18-year-old Pearl, she also has Lucille, 14, Minnie, 11, as well as son Jack, 13. She shares all her kids with her husband, Paul Thomas Anderson. Talk about a power couple, right?
Earlier this year, Maya talked to Town & Country magazine, remembering the early days with Pearl and how chaotic life was…
I thought, ‘This is all going great!’ I’d always wanted to have kids. I’d always wanted to live in New York. I’d always wanted to be on Saturday Night Live. This little bald baby, listening to the musical guests warm up. I look back and I can’t believe I did that. It was crazy. I don’t think I slept for two years.
Now she’d probably do anything to go back to that moment.
