Tina Fey Jokes That Daughter is "The Only Good Part" of Motherhood

Being a mom is tough, but for Tina Fey the reward at the end of the day — her 2 ½-year-old daughter Alice Zenobia — makes it all worthwhile, the 38-year-old actress says. In a recent interview Tina joked "the diapers are not great, the hours are dreadful…the baby is the only good part." She doesn’t take her ability to be a mom for granted, however. Says Tina,

I personally got very lucky. I got a baby under the wire – that’s how I like to say it. I was 35 and I know I’m very, very lucky.

Because she didn’t struggle with fertility issues Tina says she found it "hard to imagine" the emotions being experienced by her character in Baby Mama, who uses a surrogate to have a baby.  Still, she had some memories to draw on in preparing for the role. "I was able to remember the feelings of mid-30s baby lust that kind of overtakes you and surprises you, and then the fear that it’s not going to work out," she says.

Alice is Tina’s daughter with husband Jeff Richmond. 

Source: Metro; Photo by Bill Davila/Startraks

Comments

Thanks Tina–
For being so honest and fresh to your approach on motherhood. I love the fact that a hollywood mom can make the rest of us normal moms feel good.

- Elle C. on July 26th, 2008

Love love love her! She cracks me up. Once she was on a show talking about Alice and how she has started kissing and opened her mouth to Tina and she goes “woah Alice I dont like you like that” As if to say dont try and make out with me. Just the way she says things cracks me up, shes like a female version if Will Ferral I think.

- Bren on July 26th, 2008