Life is a matter of choices, isn’t it? Being at work with no one can be trusted to taking care the baby, make mostly mom decides to stay at home to be with the children. For Michelle Pfeiffer a mother of 2 children Claudia Rose and John Henry, says,
“When they were little, I would just throw them in a suitcase and we’d go everywhere, and once they got in school I didn’t feel that was fair to them. My daughter’s 16, and it really hit me how little time I have left with her, and my son, he’s 14, I only have four years left with him.”
The Cat Woman, shares her feelings when she had decided to left them at while she’s working.
“There are things only a mother notices,” she continues. “So you can’t be away for too long. I’ll leave, and people are there, and taking care of things, and they’re running great, and I come back, everybody’s happy, things are running smoothly, and I’m out of sync, you know? There’s this sort of rhythm that’s happening, and you’re not a part of it. It takes a while to fall back in.”
Today her child all grown up and have their own busy life, and wife of David E. Kelly is not sure about what she will be doing when the kids leave home. “I don’t know if I’ll direct, I don’t know if I’ll go back to school and do something else, I don’t know if I’ll act more, just do more movies. … It’ll be interesting. I know I’ll have serious empty-nest syndrome.”
Remembering her feeling while playing her role as Lea on her new movie Cheri, she admits a social dislocation when her first marriage with her first husband Peter Horton was broke up, whom she had married at age 23 in 1981.
“I remember when I was married the first time and we separated – ugh, you know? It never occurred to me, the sort of comfort level that I had, or the ease of being with someone – you take it for granted – of being with somebody for years who knows your body, who accepts all your imperfections, and you meet them at a certain age when you’re young. And 10 years later, or whatever, the idea of this new person, you know, seeing all your flaws, it makes you really vulnerable.And being single is a different lifestyle. It’s like functioning in a social situation. All of a sudden, now you’re single and it’s scary at first,” she continues. “I mean, for better or worse, unknowingly, you kind of take on a different role when you’re a married person. So I do think that is, um, really, it’s scary. Does that make sense?”
Today married with a television producer David E. Kelly, she is glad the marriage can be working for 15 years.
“I think it’s one of the things that makes my marriage work, that we’re both in the same business,” she says. “I’m really glad he’s not an actor, because as much as you might have an empathy for each other, that creates a whole other dynamic that’s kind of complicated. But you know, if you aren’t in our industry, you really don’t understand what it takes out of you. When I go to work, he even said to me, ‘There’s a little part of you that kinda goes away, that kinda disappears, we kinda lose you a little bit.’ And he tolerates that, you know? Because he knows I’ll be back.”
I admire her for growing wisely and beautifully on her age. Many celebrity that getting older could not accept the nature beauty they had. Different to Michelle Pfeiffer here, she even can accept that she won’t be asked to return to the role of Cat Woman. But instead she willing to teach a whipping lessons to the next Cat Woman.
