Celebrity Baby Blog / Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones was "sensible" with weight loss

Catherine Zeta-Jones has always been known for her curvaceous figure,which she has maintained after having two kids with Michael Douglas,son Dylan, 6, and daughter Carys, 4. The No Reservations star tellsPeople the secret is to be sensible.

It takes a lot of time. These days it’s like a race to thefinish line: Who can look back in shape the quickest after having kids.I was really quite sensible with it. I do a lot of swimming and I thinkI’m going to start up with tap dancing lessons when the kids go back toschool. And I eat sensibly.

One thing she doesn’t eat is peanut butter, which is one of her kids’ favorite foods.

Inever had it growing up, and I don’t like the consistency. I’ve triedchunky and smooth. My husband and kids love it and I’m, like, about tolose it or throw up. On the other side of the Atlantic we have Marmite.I love it.

Source: People, August 6 issue, pg 103-105

Dylan and Carys Douglas are spoiled – by their grandparents

Catherine Zeta-Jones may not want to spoil her kids, but that won’t stop her parents from doing so. The No Reservations star tells David Letterman on The Late Show that when it comes to grandma and grandpa, Dylan, 6, and Carys, 4, can get whatever they want.

My kids have been with my parents in Wales [this summer], getting spoiled. They love it. Me and Michael [Douglas] are not allowed to go there because they get spoiled rotten and it takes me three weeks to try to get them back to normal.

Besides multiple visits to Wales, Catherine, 37, makes sure her kids know about their mom’s heritage by teaching them Welsh.

I try to instill the Welsh in the kids. They don’t speak fluent Welsh, but they know ‘Jingle Bells’ in Welsh. And they know their bellybutton is called a ‘boogal.’

However, not everyone knows that.

If I’m late coming home from work, I call them and say, ‘When you’re asleep, mama is going to come in and kiss your boogal.’ They say, ‘Oh no, mama, not the boogal! Not the boogal!’ Sometimes I speak it on the phone in front of people and I think I’m gonna be arrested – kissing their boogals while they’re sleeping.

Motherhood "natural" for Catherine Zeta-Jones

She’s played an array of characters over her career, but none haschallenged Catherine Zeta-Jones the way No Reservations‘ Kate has. As aworkaholic chef, Catherine’s alter ego has no time for kids and zeromaternal instincts, which couldn’t be more different from the actressherself.

That was one of the things that I really had to keep in the back of mymind, because I’m a parent, too. My maternal instincts were hard tocontain. This woman has never been around children, doesn’t know what to dowith children. It’s just so alien to her. To me, it’s natural.

Catherine spends most of the year in Bermuda with Michael Douglas andtheir kids Dylan, 6, and Carys, 4. She says she loves the localebecause work permits are required for paparazzi to descend on theisland, which explains the dearth of photos of her family.

If you arrive with a whole bunch of cameras, they just put you back on theplane. I’m happy to report that my life in Bermuda, no paparazzi.You don’t see me going shopping, don’t see me picking my kids up from school,don’t see me coming from yoga.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Catherine Zeta-Jones: Family is my life

When asked how she balances work and being mom to Dylan, 6, and Carys, 4, Catherine Zeta-Jonessays she doesn’t. That’s because one will always trump the other inimportance.

I hate to say the word ‘balance’ when it comes to myfamily and children because at the end of the day, that is my life andeverything else is a bonus.

Source: Us Weekly, July 30 issue, pg 76