13 Celebrity Parenting Quotes From 2025 That Gave Us All the Feels This Year
If parenting felt like a roller coaster in 2025, you’re not alone. Even celebrities were hanging on for dear life. This year, stars got unusually candid about the realities of raising kids, sharing hard-won wisdom, emotional breakthroughs, and a few laugh-out-loud moments we instantly recognized in our own homes. Here are the quotes that made us nod, cry, or text a friend, “Wait… same.”
Amy Poehler on your new role as a parent
“Supposedly, when your kids become teens, you go from producer to consultant. That’s the difference. You’re no longer producing their lives. You’re there for them to consult. So you have to kind of let them start producing their own lives, which is not easy.”
—Comedian Amy Poehler during the Smartless podcast with actor Will Arnett who she co-parents with
Sutton Foster on parenting herself
“Even more true now as I’m a mother. I’m mothering myself at the same time. Because every night when I put my daughter to bed, I say, ‘I love you. I’m so proud of you.’ And so now I say that to myself.”
—Sutton Foster on the Dinner’s On Me podcast, describing parenting her 7-year-old daughter as a path of self–rediscovery
Ali Wong on dating
“A divorced mom is very special because she doesn’t want commitment… she doesn’t want to have your kids.”
—Aly Wong on her Single Lady 2024/2025 standup tour
Gigi Hadid on doing your best
“You wake up and do your best and you realize it is enough. There’s a beauty in not necessarily knowing exactly how that’s going to go.”
—Model Gigi Hadid on motherhood, growth and letting go of unrealistic expectations in her Vogue interview
Alicia Keys on navigating her triggers as a parent
“You have your instinct, and you know what you feel. We also do have to learn how to separate ourselves from them… We do have our own triggers, and we do have our own histories and things that we’re working through. So knowing that they’re so pure… We can almost take a step and say, ‘Hold on, that’s mine. That’s not theirs. Let me just take a breather.’”
—Singer Alicia Keys reflecting on how motherhood forced her to confront her own emotional triggers during “The Drew Barrymore Show”
Channing Tatum on hanging out with his daughter
“I got yelled at in an escape room yesterday… We’re both trying to solve this problem and now I feel like we have to go to therapy because of that moment.”
—Actor and dancer Channing Tatum on the “The Drew Barrymore Show”
Kate Hudson on her son’s future
“Kids have a hard time thinking that they have to do something so significant, which means to them be seen. But the significance is… if you’re happy putting what you’re putting out in the world, you know? And I hope that—I think he’s got that, I think he’s going to be alright.”
—Actress Kate Hudson on her son Ryder potentially going into show business during a chat on BBC Radio 2
Emily Blunt on the bedtime routine
“I feel bedtime is this essential anchor… The 10-minute chats where they tell you everything — you don’t want to miss them.”
—Actress Emily Blunt on being a mother during a PORTER Magazine interview
Dax Shepard on empowering his daughters
“When they’re 19 and their boss is a f******* creep, I want them to talk back. I want them to be disrespectful. I want them to always advocate for themselves.”
—Actor and podcast host Dax Shepard said to actress Reese Witherspoon during an episode of Armchair Expert
Jennifer Lawrence on life with children
“Having children changes everything. It changes your whole life. It’s brutal and incredible.”
—Actress Jennifer Lawrence during a red carpet interview at the Cannes Film Festival
Andy Cohen on his decision to have kids
“Having kids later in life was like the greatest thing I’ve ever done.”
—Bravo host Andy Cohen during an episode of Call Her Daddy
Ellen Pompeo on what it’s like to be a mom
“You can’t be a mother and have children and give 100% to your job. You split into different pieces… But that doesn’t make you less. You will be yourself times a thousand.”
—Actress Ellen Pompeo on motherhood during a Call Her Daddy interview
Keke Palmer on being her version of the best mom
“You know, when you have a kid, you’re always trying to figure out what you can do better… and loving yourself—to me, that’s No. 1… I feel like I’ve been pouring so much more into myself so that I can be the best mom to him.”
—Actress and podcast host Keke Palmer told PEOPLE magazine