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Teri Hatcher On What Pushed Her to Cross the Triathlon Finish Line

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She may have trained long and hard for her first triathlon, but what eventually got Teri Hatcher across the finish line was motherhood.

Finishing the race at a respectable two hours and eleven minutes, the Desperate Housewives actress tells Good Morning America that she actually surprised herself. “I didn’t care about the time,” she admits.

“My goal was to do the half-mile ocean swim, to do the bike, to do the run and not stop and not have to go to the bathroom.”

The same couldn’t be said for her daughter Emerson Rose, 12, however! “She was like, ‘Mom, win!’” she says with a laugh. “I was like, ‘Really? I wasn’t even thinking of winning!’”

And while she may consider being “more competitive” next year, the experience taught Teri a lesson far more important than winning. “I think what I realized — and my hat is always off to moms, I think there’s nothing harder than for women to juggle all the things we do: working, wives, motherhood, we kind of do it all — as I was training for the triathlon is the biggest thing is the psychology in it all,” she muses.

Likening the race to motherhood, Teri elaborates,

“The drive of it, I’m not going to stop, I’m just going to get up and keep going is the same as a mom. I’m tired this morning, but I still got to drive to school and I still got to make the lunches. It’s that same things that moms have and I really noticed that mental comparison and I think that’s what got me across the finish line.”

Emerson is Teri’s only child with ex-husband Jon Tenney.

Source: Good Morning America

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Amy Grant and Vince Gill Say Daughter 'Provided a Sense of Glue'

Courtesy Good Housekeeping

In the February issue of Good Housekeeping magazine, singers Amy Grant and Vince Gill open up about life as a blended family of seven.

Both entered their 2000 nuptials as parents — Amy to Matthew, 22, Millie, 20 and Sarah, 17; Vince to Jennifer, 27 — but it is their only child together, 8 ½-year-old Corinna, that has united the extended brood.

“[Corinna's birth was] a great blessing for us,” Vince says.

“All of a sudden, we all had something in common. And we didn’t know it at the time, but it really provided a sense of glue.”

The timing of their union raised eyebrows, especially amongst Amy’s Christian fan base, but the 49-year-old songstress says she had bigger priorities.

“I don’t mean this in a flippant way, but I was so unconcerned by what somebody who I would never meet wrote in a rag,” she explains. “I felt like I had flipped a car over three medians and I was trying to figure out if my children — if we all — still had a pulse.”

And while Matthew, Millie, Sarah and Jennifer were all breathing, it couldn’t be said that they were doing well, either. “There have been a lot of hands-down, pivotal turning points, with a lot of words and tons of emotions,” Amy admits before adding,

“It was a long haul to feel like a family again. The parents have made a choice, but none of the kids have made the choice. And wherever it’s going to wind up, you’re not going to get there quickly. You just have to give people their space.”

Similarly, the couple make it a point to acknowledge the importance of their respective pasts. “The one thing we never tried to do is to say that life began for us the moment that we said ‘I do,’” Amy reveals. “A whole lot of life had gone before that, and it was worth, in time, integrating in a healthy way.”

Source: Good Housekeeping; February issue