Kevin Bacon says he's proud to be a father and a 'househusband'
We recently reported on how actress Kyra Sedgwick finds balance with her family and her career. Her husband and fellow actor Kevin Bacon, 48, shares his perspective on their busy life — and talks about how they keep it all together.
With his acting and music careers, he jokes that he doesn’t have time for vacations and is proud to be a ‘househusband.’
I’ve never played golf in my life. I just wear an apron, scrub the toilets.
With Kyra’s recent success as the star of the TNT drama The Closer, she lives in Los Angeles while the show is in production, and Kevin lives in New York City with their kids, Travis, 18, and Sosie, 15. Kevin says that he has been more than happy to take care of them:
In the first year, I stayed home more so the kids would have someone there. It actually affected her more than me. She was feeling so concerned about leaving them. I think it would have been really difficult for her if I hadn’t stayed. Knowing I was home, she could really throw herself into the show.
Kevin and Kyra’s son Travis is a rising star in his own right; his punk-rock band toured 30 cities this summer. Kevin says that Travis is "smart, he’s compassionate and he’s well-adjusted. And he’s going off to college."
As for Sosie, while she may be interested in becoming an actor like her parents, Kevin says it’s still up in the air.
She enjoys acting, but we don’t encourage any kind of professional life until 18. I don’t want to push her into being a child actor.
Kevin’s latest film Death Sentence opened on August 31st. He also runs a charity web site, SixDegrees.org.
Sources: OC Register and Monsters and Critics
