Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson is opening up about her pregnancies with her daughter Rose Dorothy and son Cosmo, and why she kept them out of the public eye.
During a recent interview with Vanity Fair about her new skincare brand The Outset, the 37-year-old actress took the chance to explain her want to be protective.
“I didn’t want to feel scrutinized in the public eye,” Johansson revealed. “I wanted to be able to have my own feelings about my changing body without other people also telling me how they saw me, whether it was positive or negative.”
She went on to say that during her most recent pregnancy with her son Cosmo, Johansson realized the public pushed their judgement onto her and other pregnant women.
“I noticed how much stuff people put on you when you’re pregnant — their hopes or their judgement or their desire, a lot of that is put on pregnant women. I would have a lot of people saying things to me immediately, like, ‘How great, oh my God, that’s wonderful. While I was definitely excited to be pregnant in some ways, I also had a lot of not-great feelings about it, and that would be scrutinized by — I’m talking about, like, women that were close to me. You expect it from men, but from women, it’s like, ‘Come on, girl, you’ve been through it.”
Although it may seem difficult to balance work, family life and private life, Johansson seems to be doing a great job and says she is slowly learning to take more time for herself.
“It wasn’t until my daughter was more independent of me, probably around two, where I rediscovered myself. I was like, ‘What is most important to me in my life?’ I felt like the work that I was doing and the choices that I was making personally should be intentional in a certain kind of way, where I didn’t want to feel like life was happening to me. I knew more about what I didn’t want in my life and in my career.”
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