Heather Graham on Why She’s Glad She Never Had Children

Heather Graham It is to be frank from not becoming my mother.

The 55 -year -old actress includes her late previous relationships Heath Ledger and James WoodsShe opened her ideas about motherhood in a new interview with Guardian Posted on Monday, April 28.

“I think I had passed moments when I wondered: How was it the case if I had a child? I think I will say 80 % of the time I feel happy because I do not have children, I feel satisfied with that, and perhaps 20 % of the time I wonder how it will be,” Dance nights Star said. “You just have to appreciate your life.”

Graham added: “I think it is great now that more women express their desire not to have children … The culture says:” You need to have children. “But why is it not fun, what do you really want?”

the Austin Powers: The spy that shook me The actress has long been aware of not to satisfy people. She said she had not spoken to her family for about 30 years.

“I think, as a younger person, I felt that I couldn’t really set borders with them, so I wanted to explore this in the movie,” she said, referring to her latest movie. SelectedI also directed.

In about 17 years, Graham said she offered her a role in the 1988 black comedy HeatharsBut her parents did not allow her to operate.

She said, “My parents objected,” and revealed that she moved from the family home shortly after. “I became somewhat my own and I discovered:” What do I like? What do I want when I am not under this judgment, authoritarian, patriarchal, and parental structure? What do I want to do? What is my opinion on this? “

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Graham said that she had ended with her parents and sister – the actress Amy Graham In the mid -twenties.

The actress explained: “My father is really Dini, and they were, especially my father, criticizing all I was doing.” “It was not a healthy dynamic. I stopped talking to them, and I have to say, that was a great relief. I felt, at that moment, I opened my life freely. I didn’t need to satisfy them.”

Over the years, the Graham family tried to communicate with her, but she has not yet agreed with them.

“There was an effort, but it was always very judgment, like:” Let me give you the number of the priest and you can go to confess. “I think we are really different. They have a lot of great qualities – it’s not a healthy dynamic for me. “