Discover out what these celebrities needed to say about parenthood…

Earlier than Cameron Diaz tied the knot with Benji Madden, she didn’t assume youngsters have been in her future. Whereas reflecting on her life, Cameron shared that she had by no means been drawn to being a mom and being child-free had made her life simpler.

“It’s a lot extra work to have youngsters. To have lives apart from your individual that you’re liable for — I did not take that on. That did make issues simpler for me. A child — that’s all day, day by day for eighteen years,” Cameron informed Esquire.

She continued, “Not having a child may actually make issues simpler, however that does not make it a straightforward determination. I like defending folks, however I used to be by no means drawn to being a mom. I’ve it a lot simpler than any of them. That’s simply what it’s. Doesn’t imply life isn’t typically onerous. I’m simply what I’m. I work on what I’m. Proper now, I feel, issues are good for me. I’ve completed so much. And I do not care anymore.”

Cameron has since welcomed two youngsters with Benji: Raddix and Cardinal.

Jeff Goldblum by no means thought he was going to be a father however after beginning to date his now-wife Emilie, he started to rethink issues. The couple talked it over for just a few years earlier than deciding to tie the knot and welcome youngsters. They now share two children: Oceans and River.

“I by no means thought that I used to be going to do it. I had by no means been significantly passionate [about fatherhood] or envisioned it for myself — I don’t have any nieces or nephews, had by no means seen a start earlier than. Within the couple of pretty earlier marriages I had, there was some fantasy discuss it, however by no means any critical enterprise. And I all the time thought it was a very good factor that I didn’t have any drama with children and breaking apart,” he informed Radio Occasions.

George Clooney didn’t all the time have children on his thoughts. Earlier than he met his spouse Amal, he didn’t assume that he would at some point turn out to be a father. Again in 2006, he stated that he didn’t assume it was in his DNA to turn out to be a father.

“I feel it’s probably the most accountable factor you are able to do, to have children. It’s not one thing to be taken evenly. I don’t have that gene that individuals have to copy. However every thing in my life has modified over time,” George informed Individuals.

George and Amal have since welcomed twins: Ella and Alexander.

Rising up, Angelina Jolie by no means thought she was going to have youngsters. She says that as a result of she “was not a really steady youth,” she didn’t see herself as being anybody’s mother. However that modified earlier than she adopted her first little one in Cambodia — and she or he’s now the mother of six youngsters.

“It’s unusual, I by no means needed to have a child. I by no means needed to be pregnant. I by no means babysat. I by no means considered myself as a mom,” Angelina informed the Related Press. “After I first got here to Cambodia, it modified me. It modified my perspective. I noticed there was a lot about historical past that I had not been taught at school, and a lot about life that I wanted to know, and I used to be very humbled by it.”

Jeannie Mai by no means thought motherhood was in her future. Whereas she’s now the mother of a daughter named Monaco who she shares with ex Jeezy, she defined that “belief points” beforehand stored her from eager to turn out to be a mother. After she was sexually abused by a member of the family as a toddler, she says she feared she wouldn’t be able to defending her personal little one from an identical expertise.

“As a toddler, when you find yourself taken from issues that really feel good and entire and protected, it’s onerous to see something as reliable shifting ahead. I notice that the rationale I didn’t wish to have children is as a result of that feeling once I was a child was so actual and so damaging to the purpose that I’m 42 right now nonetheless coping with belief points and confidence,” Jeannie shared on her YouTube channel. “It nonetheless scares me whether or not or not I can hold a child protected from another person who may damage them.”

Jeannie added that after remedy, her coronary heart started to shift and she or he determined she needed to offer a child the childhood “we by no means had.”

As a younger girl, Diane Kruger thought she wasn’t going to have any youngsters and felt that she was “too egocentric” to turn out to be a mom. However as she obtained older, Diane admits she opened as much as the concept of getting a child. Diane and her companion Norman Reedus now share a daughter named Nova.

“I didn’t assume I needed youngsters for a very long time. I used to be too egocentric,” she shared with PORTER Edit. “However by the point I obtained to about 35, I assumed, sure, I in all probability do need one. However then it’s important to await the appropriate individual to return alongside. I’m glad I waited.”

Earlier than Amy Schumer met her husband Chris Fischer, she didn’t assume that getting married or having youngsters was one thing she’d ever do. Whereas she didn’t wish to have youngsters, being married to Chris fully modified her thoughts. The couple now share a son named Gene.

“I by no means needed to get married. I by no means needed to have children. I didn’t even give it some thought. Like children — like little ladies play weddings? I used to be, like, enjoying that I used to be a fortune teller, you understand?” she shared throughout Oprah Winfrey’s 2020 Imaginative and prescient: Your Life In Focus Tour. “However then I met this dude. And I used to be, like, I wish to companion up with you for all times. And I do wish to get the federal government concerned. And I would like you to signal. I wish to make a vow. Everybody right here heard you and now you’re mine.”

Eva Mendes didn’t have children on her thoughts till she met Ryan Gosling. Trying again, Eva says she was extremely targeted on work and wasn’t in the appropriate mindset to be a mom. However as soon as she met Ryan, she knew she needed to have a household with him.

“I used to be fortunate sufficient to work my bum off for 20 years. I by no means needed infants earlier than till I fell in love with Ryan, and it type of labored out to the place I used to be 40 and having my first child,” Eva defined on the Fitzy & Wippa radio present. “I feel I used to be 42 for the second, so it labored out in that method that I had a profession after which I modify my focus to my household.”

The couple now shared two little ladies: Esmeralda and Amada.

When Zooey Deschanel was in her early 30s, she didn’t see herself turning into a mother. Although her sister Emily had not too long ago turn out to be a mom, Zooey defined that it wasn’t one thing she noticed for herself.

“My sister was all the time very motherly, baby-sitting and stuff,” she informed Marie Claire. “I like children, and I like being round children – however it was by no means an ambition.”

A number of years later, Zooey and her then-husband Jacob Pechenik welcomed two children: Elsie and Charlie.

Simon Cowell as soon as was very set in his opinion that youngsters weren’t for him. Again in 2009, he admitted that he didn’t assume he may deal with youngsters and that on a regular basis you needed to dedicate to their care would drive him loopy.

“God, no. I couldn’t have youngsters,” he shared. “If I had them right here drawing on the partitions, I’d go nuts. You’ve obtained to be up at a sure time. Acquired to hear. When all you wish to do is sit in a nook considering.”

Over time, Simon’s opinion did change and he later welcomed his son Eric together with his companion  Lauren Silverman.