Uma Thurman Tells Moms: 'Be Who You Are'
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When Ethan Hawke welcomed a baby with wife Ryan Shawhughes — former nanny to the actor’s two children Maya Ray, 11, and Levon Roan, 7 ½ — it raised eyebrows, but you won’t catch his ex-wife Uma Thurman casting any stones. Vowing to “be positive and move forward,” she tells the October issue of W magazine that “you kind of owe it to your children to not leave a lot of mess.”
“They didn’t ask for it, and they don’t need to hear about it.”
Revealing that she’ll never move from New York City — “we can’t live anywhere else because my children’s father lives here,” she explains — Uma admits that she’s also been reluctant to take acting jobs elsewhere for fear of being away from the kids. “I’ve been living at home for work for a long time,” the 39-year-old Kill Bill star notes. “If I don’t leave soon, I’m going to literally choke my career to death.”
Now that Maya and Levon are “getting more independent,” however, Uma says she’s “kind of maybe, slightly selfishly” thinking about working again.
“You know, I do care about my work, and it is part of me. And I am a mother, but I need to do what I’m good at doing. You really can’t let go of all of yourself…Even your kids need you to be who you are.”
Who she is — or was, as the case may be — will be on full display next month with the release of Motherhood, which chronicles the life of a New Yorker mom-of-two over the course of one day. The film “captures so much of the joy and frustration and the weird tension between your old self and your new self, and the loneliness of parenting too,” Uma says. “It was so real and so honest about how hard it is to be a mother and also a full person who’s true to herself.” She adds,
“It was like seeing five years of my life.”
Motherhood opens October 16.
Source: W; October issue
– Missy
