Minnie Driver, a mother of a son, Henry Story Driver, 13 months old, always open about motherhood to anyone who’d like to find out about she’s mothering her son. On Parade, she told about her getting ready become a mother, since she is always surrounding by kids in her whole life, she says, “My sister has three children and it’s like I knew what it was like. But, honestly, my mind was just on the impending birth and the immediate future.”
It seems the Academy Award winner is walking on the way of motherhood with Henry as the object of love.
“Having a little baby is very different than dealing with your kids when they’re older. You’re not juggling school schedules and stuff. I’m sure that all will come, but the first year of Henry’s life has been just an insane earthquake for me.”
Realizing that she waited too long to has children since she put much attention on her work which she treated like her kid, “it (her career) required as much nurturing and as much attention.” After Henry come to her life, she has many loves to give and received the joy and the hilarity from him.
“Now, I’ve discovered there’s no amount of hassle that could ever be bigger than my love of Henry and the hilarity and joy that he’s brought into my life and continues to bring.”
We learn about mother’s love usually after having a child, and according to Driver “you can’t know until you have it, and it just blows your mind. It’s so extraordinary, she says to CinemaBlend.
The 39 years old actress admits that the love she feel for her son “just take” her “breath away.”
“My son’s face in the morning, or if I hear him ‘Mama, Mama, Mama’ and I go and he’s just sitting there in his crib, in the dark cause, you know, often he wakes up early it’s still dark outside. When I turn the lights on he’s like ‘Mama!’ And it’s just, it feels like Christmas.”
Played as pregnant mom in Motherhood with Uma Thurman, whereas she was expecting a baby. “They needed an actress to play pregnant, but I offered them the real thing. I was so pregnant in this film that I was in a kind of different world.” Driver experienced how to working while so pregnant, she advices, “You shouldn’t really be on a film set when you’re that pregnant, you need to be at home with your feet up. I wouldn’t do it again.”
But people on the set took care of her, “They took care of me. They were lovely and very sweet, but you should be getting ready for your baby to come and taking it easy, you shouldn’t be out making movies.”
Now, Diver is learning about raising her son on the set while she works, “it was incredibly challenging.”
“The first one I did, Betty Anne Waters with Hilary Swank, when Henry was five months old, was really hard. We were in Michigan in the middle of winter and it was ten below. I was like, ‘What am I doing?'”
And she would say “good luck!” to her son whether Henry someday pursuing a similar career path, she laughs, “Good luck and I’ll always cook for you when you’re totally broke.”
Driver set the priority to put her son first, it’s the reason about her put her singing career on postpone since she has “no time.”
“There’s no time. If he’s sleeping, I’m trying to sleep and when you’re breast feeding, you’re the milk machine. There’s no time to, like, pick up the guitar and write a song, much less go for a walk or have a beer. It’s like, ‘Good luck.’ But I’m going back in the studio and I’m just about to start another record.”
Got the support “from the site called ‘Mamapedia‘ that’s amazing, where you can ask questions and mommy across America from can answer” through internet, and it help her big but also could steal the time.
“But sitting down and reading about somebody else’s tough experiences of being a mother, you’re suddenly like, ‘My God, I’ve got a kid and I don’t have time to read about this. I’ve got to go do it.”
