Julia Roberts on Oprah recap
Julia Roberts made an appearance on Oprah yesterday to promote Charlotte’s Web, the live action film based on the classic children’s book by E.B. White, also starring Oprah Winfrey herself. Julia may be a star in the film, but it’s clear her most important role is being a mom to two year old twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus, with husband of four years, Danny Moder.
Click the extended post for the interview, photos and a poll!
She really adores her kids:
I just love them. They’re fun and happy and honest and just fill me with so much joy. I guess I didn’t realize that you could really just like your children as much as your friends, you know? I just enjoy interacting with them. I’m interested in their point of view.
On how motherhood has changed her:
I definitely feel that I’ve expanded as a human being. I have more empathy and more compassion, I think, because I feel so blessed on a level that I can’t even wrap my mind around really."
Motherhood has made her appreciated her own mother, Betty:
I try to call her with more regularity because I think, ‘God, what if Hazel didn’t call me for two weeks?’ I’m able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.
Motherhood has turned her into an environmentalist:
She drives a hybrid car and recycles plastic bags from the grocery store: Reduce, reuse, recycle. Just like Jack Johnson sings in Curious George. It’s motherhood really urging my consciousness along into different places. What is the world going to be like for all of our children?
She also appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair along with George Clooney, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Al Gore, to promote environmental awareness.
She’s become involved with School Bus America, an organization trying to get school buses to use a more earth friendly fuel:
Our kids are inside those buses where it’s so much more toxic and deadly. And it’s so easy. All these buses can be changed over to biodiesel and vegetable oil.
Danny is a great husband and wonderful father:
I just love him to bits. He’s just a great human being. And to see him now as a father—that is the greatest thrill of my life, is watching him be a father to my children. He is our rock, our heart center of our family.
Son Phinnaeus is a huge fan of Danny’s as well:
He is as in love with Danny as I am. So Danny walks in the house and we’re pushing each other out of the way to get to him first. I love to have someone on the planet who understands how I feel when Danny walks in the door.
Tags: Charlotte's Web, Danny Moder, Hazel Moder, Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, Phinnaeus Moder, twins
- Posted on Nov 29, 06 at 4:11PM
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November 29th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Her children turned 2 yesterday! She noted in the interview that the episode “aired on their birthday, so Hazel will be getting a pink balloon.”
November 29th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
Julia looks beautiful. I’m so glad that she loves being a mother so much
November 29th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
I’m not trying to be rude or negative but it seems like she favors Hazel. She’s always holding her and talking about her, it seems like.
November 29th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
FunnyHoney, I remember that! Julia said she was trying to help the twins understand that their birthday was coming, and she was successful; she reported that every time she brought up the subject of the twins’ birthday, Hazel asked, “Pink balloon, Mommy?” awww!
She also stated that having a boy is a very different experience than having a girl. Phinn is very boyish-he likes trucks and will come into the room and yell, “Hi, Hazel!” while slapping her knee to greet her.
November 29th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
Wow, sounds like motherhood has really matured Julia (I can say that because it did the same thing to me!). She sounds like someone you would like to know, instead of the typical “celebrity”. And I know exactly what she means about how her kids have expanded her as a person, as well as an environmentalist!
Thanks for the info about the School Bus America organization. I’ve stopped behind countless schoolbuses that have been spewing stinky vapors into the air – immediately I think, I’m supposed to put my daughter in that toxic box in a couple of years? Blech!
Wish I had seen the whole interview – thanks for the recap!
November 29th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
There was a little bit more you might want to add here
When Dakota Fanning was beeing interviewed, Julia talked about Hazel. I’m from Brasil so I’m not good making the transcript, but there’s a video here and you can see that part (it’s about the kids understanding Christmas and Julia says like ‘I’m still trying to make Hazel understand what’s a birthday -I’m hoping more for next year’.. something like that):
http://www.sendspace.com/file/saddoq
THIS MESSAGE IS NOT TO APPERAR ON THE BLOG. IT’S JUST FOR YOU MODS
November 30th, 2006 at 12:44 am
I love Julia. She’s fantastic! She has always seemed like such a decent, honest, down to earth person.
November 30th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Julia does seem really down to earth. I am always impressed that she seems to use the normal baby gear rather than the $900 strollers etc. I love how she talks about motherhood. It’s really wonderful isn’t it?
About Charlottes Web, I can’t say I want to see it b/c I cry everytime I see it, even since I was little. My sweetie is too small for it(7 months) so I will get a reprieve from crying during it for awhile at least!
December 31st, 2006 at 2:47 pm
I am struggling to provide for my kids and they have so much to worry over in this life and christmas is a time to inject magic into thier lives. I could only wish that my children were so comfortable to only want a pink balloon. That would be my dream.