Tina Fey: I'm Not a "Crazy Working Mother Witch"
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Would Liz Lemon approve?
In this week's New Yorker, 30 Rock star Tina Fey busts up myths about balancing career and motherhood.
"It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam. . . than it is to speak honestly about [working moms]," writes Fey, 40, in "Confessions of a Juggler."
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The Emmy-Award winner, who is mom to five-year-old daughter Alice with hubby Jeff Richmond, explains people are constantly looking at her with "accusatory eyes" and asking how she juggles everything.
"Sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away,” she quips. "There’s another great movie idea! Baby Versus Work: A hard-working baby looking for love (Kate Hudson) falls for a handsome pile of papers (Hugh Grant). I would play the ghost of a Victorian poetess who anachronistically tells Kate to 'go for it.'"
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Fey goes on to poke fun at the double standard for ladies of a certain age in Hollywood.
"I know older men in comedy who can barely feed and clean themselves, and they still work," she writes. "The women, though, they’re all ‘crazy.’ I have a suspicion that the definition of ‘crazy’ in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f**k her anymore."
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3I love Tina Fey but I agree with Celine, celebrities have help and that makes all the difference in the world! It is easy to work when you have someone else to make dinner and tuck your kids in at night!
I can't stand Tina Fey.
I'm so sick of hearing about how rich women balancing being a mom and working. They're rich, they have nannies, maids, assistants. That's how they manage other people do most of the work. For regular moms who work it's just them. Non-famous moms have to sacrifice so much to maintain that balance and raise loving and happy children. Non-famous mothers work because they have to and rich mothers work because they want to win awards.