Raising a child is never easy, even forKeira Knightley.
The actress, who shares 3-year-old daughterEdiewith husbandJames Righton, is opening up about how hard motherhood can be — despite her ability to afford childcare.
“I don’t think we give women enough credit for the physical and emotional marathon they go through when becoming a mother,” theColettestar, 33, says in a new interview withBalancemagazine.
“I come from a place of amazing privilege. I have an incredible support system; I’ve been unbelievably lucky in my career; I can afford good childcare, and yet I still find it really f— difficult,” she says, before explaining that statement “doesn’t mean I don’t love my kid.”
“It’s okay to say that,” she adds. “It’s just meadmitting that the sleep deprivation, the hormonal changes, the shift in relationship with my partner, are all things that make me feel as if I’m failing on a daily basis.”
The actress goes on to share with the magazine that she has “to remind myself that I haven’t failed, I’m just doing what I can do, but it’s not easy.”
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Knightley has long been outspoken about theinjustices women have to deal with, including the unrealistic expectations surrounding how new mothers are supposed to present themselves to the world.
In an essay titled “The Weaker Sex,” which appears in the collectionFeminists Don’t Wear Pink (And Other Lies), the actress wrote about how women are supposed to always “look beautiful,” citing the public fascination withKate Middleton‘s polished publicappearances just hours after giving birth.
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She continued, “Hide. Hide our pain, our bodies splitting, our breasts leaking, our hormones raging. Look beautiful. Look stylish, don’t show your battleground, Kate. Seven hours afteryour fight with life and death, seven hours after your body breaks open, and bloody, screaming life comes out.”
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Knightley went on to clarify that shedid not mean to slam Middleton, 37, but rather the fact that we live in a culture “that silences women’s truths and forces us all to hide.”
“I absolutely did not shame anybody in any way, in fact quite the opposite,” she said at the 2018 BFI London Film Festival in October, according toE! News.
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Ever the proud mama, in anexclusive interview with PEOPLElast October, Knightley raved about her daughter, calling her “phenomenal.”
“She’s great in every way,” the actress said. “She’s obviously a genius and obviously the best child in the entire world. And very well made. But yeah, I’m very lucky. She’s great. She’s totally great.”
However, just because Knightley is a movie star doesn’t mean her daughter will follow in her footsteps. “She wanted to be a dentist, and now apparently she’sbeen to the zoo and wantsto be a gorilla. So we’ll see,” Knightley remarked. “I’m hoping for a dentist. It might be a bit tricky if she wanted to be a gorilla when she grew up.”
source: people.com
