When you have the talent, you have the talent — and if anyone knows about that, it’sDrew Barrymore.
The actress, entrepreneur and mother of two, 44, recently sat down for a talk with theTodayshow, where she dished on hernew Flower Kids collectionand what made her come around to embracing the fact that her daughtersFrankie, 5, andOlive, 7 next month, might have anentertainment career in their own futures.
“When I first had my kids, I think I was so obsessed with doing everything differently with them, I almost thought that acting was some calling from the devil,” said Barrymore, who first lit up movie screens as a young girl in films from the 1980s likeE.T.: The Extra-TerrestrialandFirestarter.
“I was thinking, ‘My daughters will never be actors! God, no!’ ” she continues. “And then I’m, like, wait, it’s a great family trade. I’m a Barrymore. My family has been doing this for hundreds and hundreds of years, and multiple generations.”
Drew Barrymore (L) with daughter Olive.Drew Barrymore/Instagram
Drew Barrymore (L) and Will Kopelman with daughter Frankie.Will Kopelman/Instagram
What has “scared” Barrymore about the idea of Frankie and Olive going into acting is her own “unorthodox childhood” — something she didn’t want for her kids, whom she shares with ex-husbandWill Kopelman.
“[What] I really wanted for them was something very normal and traditional and safe,” says theSanta Clarita Dietalum. “I feel like I’ve accomplished that or I continue to sort of have that be my intention every day.”
But the actress can’t change the fact thather daughters are naturally “total performers,”admitting, “maybe they do have that Barrymore blood in there.”
“Olive knows that I would prefer she wait until she’s 18, and then it’s really her life and her decision,” she says. “I think there’s a way to give them a normal childhood that’s totally protected, and yet feed their love ofhow much they love to express themselves. And when they were first born, I just didn’t know how to rationalize it. Now, I do.”
Drew Barrymore.NBC
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Barrymore says that it’s “a no-brainer” to teach her girls about body positivity, since she has “never fallen prey to the pressures of Hollywood” (“I’m, like, please. I don’t know why it seems so silly to me but it always has”). But there is one thing that makes that lesson a littlemore difficult nowadays: social media.
“The thing I hate about social media is that I wish I could bring my daughters up in a world where it didn’t exist,” she says. “The good news is I was on the cover of theNational Enquirerat, like, 7 years old, so I’m like, all right, that’s basically social-media training ground. … I get it. I was raised in a life where everything was out there.”
The one thing she wants to teach her kids to do while working at separating themselves from the pressures of societal expectations? “To look in the mirror and find the good and stop picking at the bad,” Barrymore says.
source: people.com
