Seeing Jennie Garth, 37, today, after she married with Peter Facinelli, has three beautiful daughter, Luca, 12, Lola, 6, and Fiona, 3, same as watching a transformation of young girl to loving mom.
She describes herself as “homebody” who like to scrubbing when she has her moment just for the sanity for her, “I really enjoy taking something, digging in, and cleaning it,” she says. “It’s weird, but it gives me sanity.” She uniquely calling her 20 years acting career as “right place, right time.”
Just like any mom, she thinks other mom is greater than herselfwhen she reads a profile of a fellow celebrity mom, “I think, This lady has all of this time to do amazing stuff. She has this amazing marriage. Everything in her life sounds perfect. My life is not like that. It’s almost like I have some kind of disorder—I don’t remember the good things … or the bad,” she laughs.
Played as a naive girl who turned to be lovable on Beverly Hills 90210, then 10 years later she plays the role that made her famous as Kelly Taylor as a guidance counselor at her alma mater high school. Indulging with new actors and actress who struggling with too thin, too famous and too soon trials of stardom. She compares to her experiences, when she had Luca with Peter Facinelli who is now is her husband.
“I had my share of screwups, but they weren’t memorialized for all to see,” she says. “I got off lucky. I see the girls on the show now, and I think, Enjoy it while you can, because this time is very fleeting. I had maybe three years to be free, completely oblivious, and self-indulgent. Then I had a child really young and a lot of responsibility.”
Garth was so lucky surrounded by such understanding people to worked with, back when she was pregnant for the first time while she filmed 90210.
“There weren’t many actresses willing to have kids, because they thought it would jeopardize their career or their desirability,” Garth says. “There was an actress on an Aaron Spelling soap opera who got sued for getting pregnant. I got pregnant right after her, while I was on an Aaron Spelling show. But I knew he’d be supportive; [90210 was such a hit] he couldn’t be anything but.”
Garth surrounded by twenty-something costars at the peak of their fame, went it alone. “I had a whole camp set up for Luca by my trailer with a fake yard, toys, a waterslide, and a baby pool,” she says. “The set designers built a little picket fence around my Baby Land. I joke that I moved out of Beverly Hills into my little trailer park in the back.”
None of these memories, she regret. Then 12 years from that moment, motherhood has becoming her priority. And like any working mom who is juggling between work and mom, she has the hard way to balance between her work (90210), her volunteer commitment (American Heart Association) and her full time mommy job.
“When you’re a full-time mom and you work a few days here and there, it’s hard to pace yourself,” she says. “I want to know what my kids are eating for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I want to know how much activity they’ve had in a day. It’s difficult to keep it all in order.”
And teaching about discipline to three children is not easy.
“I had to give my 6-year-old four time-outs two days ago,” Garth recalls. “She kept hitting. I don’t spank, though sometimes I think, These time-outs aren’t working! What’s next?” For now, she’s sticking with “consistency, and not making idle threats. They have to know there are consequences for violence, name-calling, and not doing household chores. They’re all in such different places, but all those places require boundaries.”
And Garth can manages it, somehow, even the girls are in three different school and she’s taking them to school, but being together is a must.
“We’re always together, maybe to a fault!” she laughs. “We like to be together, I think more than most child psychologists or even my mother would say is healthy. But there will come a time when they don’t want to be with me, so I’m reveling in it now.”
And there’s always a time for everyone to start or enjoying something. Peter Facinelli, her husband, is so busy with his movie Twilight as Carlisle Cullen and Nurse Jackie series. Garth also admits about her husband works, “He works like crazy,” but still Facinelli is a father of their three daughters, during his free time, he’s shuttling with girls to bowling alleys and ballgames.
“When he’s home and present, it’s great.” And as rough as his schedule has been on the family, “it’s good for him, because it’s what he’s always wanted,” she says. “[Early on,] all I wanted to do was work. Now all I want to do is not work. I’ve passed that stage of my life. I have to respect that we’re at different places. Hopefully it’ll balance out.”
Enjoy Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli have fun family bike on Halloween day around their Los Angeles neighborhood.
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Very amusing!
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