The stars of A Bad Moms Christmas (out November 3), Kathryn Hahn and Susan Sarandon, show off our easy-chic holiday style ideas and share their real-life parenting joy and wisdom. Turns out they’re not bad at all!
KATHRYN HAHN
her HAPPY-LIFE SECRET
“I found my tribe of moms who have the same philosophy as I do of not taking myself too seriously,” says mother-of-two Kathryn, 44. “We have a thing we say: ‘Unsubscribe!’ If there is any noise coming at us, we just unsubscribe.”
SUSAN SARANDON
her PERFECTION REJECTION
“Perfection requires too much energy, so I gave it up a while ago,” says Susan, 71, mom of three and grandmother of two. “It comes in handy when you age, because there is this idea of beauty being perfection. Embracing what it is about you that makes you an individual goes hand in hand with that.” Humor helps her keep perspective in other areas of her life: “I’m the silly grandmother, and all my kids have a sense of humor. I even have a clown nose for having serious conversations — it stops you from getting emotionally loaded.”
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MOM WISDOM
Fame offers little protection against working-mom guilt, but Kathryn found her silver lining. “I didn’t realize they need you more the older they get, and that helps me forgive myself for a lot, like working when they were young,” she says of her son, 11, and daughter, 8. “It’s hard to purge yourself of that judgment… but I feel that now I’m getting into the meat and potatoes of [parenting], of being the moral compass, there to listen.”
This story is from the November 2017 edition of Good House Keeping - US.
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