“My husband and I are very aligned on that front and I think that we live a very normal experience with our children,” Roberts explained on ITV’s Lorraine in 2019. “I mean, obviously we have advantages that we didn’t have as children, but I think that’s the unique part of it, coming from the kind of childhood that I had. I raise my kids now—I don’t want them to have some of the struggles that I had, but at the same time, you do need to know how to make your bed and how to do your laundry, and how to be able to make one meal.”
She continued, “These are important life skills, and so you have to weigh the differences between what you look at as some of the hardships that I had, or things that I missed out on as a kid, but also they have to run their own race. They have to have their own experience.”
Meanwhile, Roberts’ experience of so many things for the past 30 years hasn’t been entirely her own, as much as she tries to not let the feedback of strangers affect her at her core, whether the commentary is negative or positive. “There’s something very humbling,” she told Paltrow, “when you have kids and you come home from some event and you have on this big dress and heels and diamonds, and it’s like, ‘Can I have a snack?’ And you go, ‘Yeah.'”
