
On
Everbody Loves Raymond and on her upcoming FOX comedy
Back to You,
Patricia Heaton‘s characters have daughters — a refreshing departure for the 49-year-old with four sons at home.
It’s nice to have a girl thing going on. I’ve got four boys at home, so this summer was all Transformers, paint ball and air guns.
Patricia and her husband David Hunt are parents to Sam, 13, John Basil, 12, Joseph Charles, 10, and Daniel Patrick, 8. But when asked to list their ages, the actress joked,
Eight, 10…I have no idea [laughs]. Eight, 10, 12 and 13. It’s so much fun to watch them. They’re getting to the age where we’re almost able to watch movies together, which I’m so happy about.
The boys love spending time with their mom too. While "they could care less" that Patricia is an actress, the four of them do care about her workload.
When I did a pilot for ABC last year, my third son was upset that I was going back to work. I said, ‘We’re just shooting a pilot. It might not be any good. And he said, ‘It’s going to be really good, and you’re going to be working again.’
Patricia is working nowadays on Back to You, which premieres Wednesday at 8:00, but luckily for her sons, the hours are not bad at all.
The hours were so short nobody even noticed I was gone!
Source: OK!, September 24 issue, pg 34-35