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Angela Kinsey Jokes About Her 'High Class Problems'

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Despite logging long hours as an actress alongside her costars, Angela Kinsey could never truly relate to the parents on set who felt torn by the demands of children and a career. That is, of course, until she became a mother herself to Isabel Ruby, 19 months.

“I remember a friend of mine was a working parent and we were filming something together,” Angela recalls in the winter issue of Mom. “She was really quiet and I said, ‘What’s the matter?’ She said, ‘I’m missing bath time.’ I didn’t have children yet, but I get it now.”

The separation from Isabel is most painful when Angela finds herself alone during her downtime on the set of her hit show The Office. “I never knew I could love anything the way I love Isabel,” she admits. “And when I’m not with her, I ache for her.” It is then, she notes, that the feelings of loneliness set in. “I was literally sitting there amongst her things holding her Elmo doll and had a little cry,” she says. “I tear up just thinking about it.”

And although her guilty feelings of working motherhood are no less than any other mom, Angela — with the help of her family! –  realizes her situation is unique.

“My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it’s a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have ‘high class problems.’”

While Angela continues to boast that Isabel is nothing short of a genius — she “was playing her little, tiny guitar and sang ‘Baby, baby, baby,’ and then my neighbor’s dog barked and she went ‘doggie, doggie doggie’” — outsiders help the proud mama stay grounded!

“My grandmother, who is 91, says to me, ‘Now Angela, every old crow thinks theirs is the blackest.’ And I say, ‘No grandmother, she is exceptional!’” Angela jokes.

Click below for Angela’s thoughts on becoming a single mom.
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