After the little comment by "Marie" about Victoria Beckham and her rough life being mother of 4 I had to pause. Mothers in rock is a pretty interesting topic and I am a mother so I have perspective.
I do not have servants and I don't have a family. I was never able to 'drop' my kid off to go have my nails done or go to the gym, she was with me and became a handbag of sorts. Where I went she went and that was that. I didn't 'hire' people to tend to her and if it was a situation I didn't feel was appropriate for her- well, I didn't go.
Vicky? Shes out and about a whole lot for a 'mother' who is tired. Try sleeping instead of red carpeting if you're exhausted from parenting. This leads to another fun fact. Seems her kid 'Romeo" turned 10 and as gift she had boy band The Wanted perform at his party… Interesting,but what is the obnoxious part? She tweeted the following:
'The @thewantedmusic boys, the coolest boys in music!!!!Thank u for making Romeo's 10th birthday so special!!!! X vb (sic),' she wrote. Siva Kaneswaran was quick to reply to Victoria, tweeting: 'Absolute pleasure x (sic)."
Twitter? Send a thank you card- how classless can Posh be? I love the response from Siva its almost a dismissal.
So from the pages of Elle- what does she say? "[My boys] bloody well will work. Same as myself, same as David. They're not going to be the kinds of kids that just hang about. I want them to be able to fulfill their passions, but I think it's important that the children grow up and have respect for themselves." Her oldest is 10 she hasn't a clue- especially if she's hiring boy bands for them. Mrs. Robinson.
Now lets take a peek at Gwen Stefani, mother of 2 an actual performer and civic minded citizen of the world. Her motherly quote?
'The only thing I really worry about is, again ' like, I keep bringing it up because it's my biggest stress ' how do I do this and that? How do I do both? So that's like the constant battle that I have every day. I do worry about that all the time,' she told the latest edition of Elle. 'When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school, it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they've got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my god. That is overwhelming.'
Gweneth Paltrow? Coldplay mother "It's really hard to find things that are worth leaving them for. [Balancing work and motherhood is] really hard. One night in Nashville, my son was screaming with a terrible stomachache. I was like, 'I have to get out of here!' but we had to finish. My friend Jenno, a mother of three who was producing, was great, reminding me that nine times out of 10, they just have gas."
HA, leave um
Jennifer Lopez? "[After the twins' birth,] I spent two years doing nothing. I was a wife and a mom. But you need that time to grow. You can't be afraid of, `Oh, I'm out of the public, then I'm going to have to make a comeback.' It's ridiculous. No." If she was doing nothing with infant twins, she wasn't being a mother.
And the holy mother of all mothers? Madonna. She and I were pregnant at the same time. I remember thinking how interesting to see what our kids would be like her as a mega star me as a regular Jane. Well mine doesn't have a clothing line but she does have perfectly tended to eyebrows (seriously get that tended too)..and Madonna said the following:
"I hadn't been onstage in a while. The last time was pre-children. And before I went on [at Roseland], my kids were backstage, and I thought, This isn't how I usually do it. I've got kids, and I'm thinking, This is weird. It's weird juggling children on your knee while you're in your rhinestone outfit. And I'm thinking, Okay, I'm gonna go out and do a show and I'm gonna be Superwoman! But I'm not really, `cause I'm a mom. It's all very strange." This if from a woman who humps a chair half naked and carries a gun. Awesome!
This is just a few quotes by musical moms but why is Gwen the only one with worries? The other are busy saying what they'll do, or what they will have their kids do and not one of them seems the slightest concern. There is confidence and there is oblivion. Children of fame often have fabulous tell all biography deals when theyre adults, and some of thse should be as wonderful as Mommy Dearest.