Kristen Bell has a new film coming out on Amazon Prime called The People We Hate at the Wedding. It’s based on the best-selling book and also stars Allison Janney, Cynthia Addai-Robinson and Ben Platt. Even though it’s about horrible people, I’ll probably watch it – and love it. Kristen, Cynthia and Ben play Allison’s kids in the film. While promoting it, Kristen took the opportunity to talk about her own kids, not that she needs an excuse. But I kind of related to what she said in this interview. Kristen said any time she gets to feeling herself, her daughters Lincoln, nine, and Delta, seven, bring her right “back down to earth” with a few well-placed comments.
Kids say the darndest things—just ask Kristen Bell.
In an exclusive chat with E! News’ Francesca Amiker, the People We Hate at the Wedding star joked that her ego will always be kept in check thanks to daughters Lincoln, 9, and Delta, 7, who she shares with husband Dax Shepard. “The amount of insults that they can hurl at me in a very short period of time,” she humorously noted, “it really brings me back down to earth.”
And though Kristen’s work life may sometimes seem “elegant and fancy” between red carpet events and TV appearances, her little ones have a knack for keeping her humble.
“I come home and they will just they’ll pull the rug out from under you so quickly,” Kristen quipped, adding that should there ever be a movie about her life, it should be called “My Kids Keep Me Grounded.”
Kids do have a way of cutting to the quick whether that’s their intention or not. Usually they aren’t actually trying to “hurl insults” at you, they simply call it as they see it. I straightened my hair the other day just for a change of pace. My daughter looked at me and said, “Why?” That was it. I ended up twisting it in a claw clip out of insecurity. Kids do keep parents grounded because no matter how cool that parent is – or thinks they are – they are always just Mom or Dad to their children. So even though Lincoln and Delta’s mom is a Disney princess and works with Evan Hanson, she’s just Mom when she walks through the door.
Kristen’s This Saves Lives snack company was just purchased by GOOD Worldwide for just under $5M. Kristen, Ryan Devlin, Todd Grinnell and Ravi Patel co-founded the company to combat childhood hunger by distributing nutrient-dense snack packets to children in need. And while they’ve done a lot of good work, partnering with GOOD will allow them to cast a much wider net. Surely that will earn her a few ‘cool’ points with her daughters.
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