Rosie O’Donnell with Dakota, Vivienne and Blake.Photo:Rosie O’Donnell/Instagram
Rosie O’Donnell/Instagram
Rosie O’DonnellenjoyedChristmaswith her loved ones.The actress, 60, shared a holiday selfie with daughtersDakota, 10, and Vivienne, 21, and sonBlake Christopher, 24,on Instagram.“merry christmas all 🎄🎄🎄🎄#love,” she captioned the family shot, where they posed in front of their Christmas tree in matching hoodies.O’Donnell is also mom to daughter Chelsea, 26, and sonParker Jaren, 28. She is also a grandma to Chelsea’s daughters — 10-month-oldAvery Lynn, 2½-year-oldRiley, andSkylar Rose, 4½.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Appearing onTheKelly ClarksonShowlast fall, O’Donnell recalled the first time her son Blake saw her inA League of Their Own, after a friend played it during a party. He told his mom that she was “like a teenager” in the film, “playing baseball and you sounded like Sylvester Stallone.“She laughed and told her son, “Blakey, that’s my most famous movie. That’s how I became an entertainer, from that movie.“He replied, “Yeah I never saw it, but it was weird to see you that young.“Rosie O’Donnell and family.Rosie O’Donnell InstagramClarkson asked O’Donnell how her parenting has changed over the years, to which the actress admitted that she was “much too much of a lenient mother” with her older children.“I wanted to give them everything, my older ones, when I was a young mother in my early thirties. I come to find out now, as a 60-year-old mother of a 9-year-old, that making the world so smooth and without a bump for them doesn’t serve them in adulthood,” she explained.“It really doesn’t, and I was much too much of a lenient mother with my older ones and much too much trying to repair my own childhood through mothering them,” she continued.“Now I have a little daughter who has autism, she’s 9 years old. Her autism is magical to me because it forces me to slow down, to take the time to really see the world from another person’s perspective.”
Rosie O’DonnellenjoyedChristmaswith her loved ones.
The actress, 60, shared a holiday selfie with daughtersDakota, 10, and Vivienne, 21, and sonBlake Christopher, 24,on Instagram.
“merry christmas all 🎄🎄🎄🎄#love,” she captioned the family shot, where they posed in front of their Christmas tree in matching hoodies.
O’Donnell is also mom to daughter Chelsea, 26, and sonParker Jaren, 28. She is also a grandma to Chelsea’s daughters — 10-month-oldAvery Lynn, 2½-year-oldRiley, andSkylar Rose, 4½.
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Appearing onTheKelly ClarksonShowlast fall, O’Donnell recalled the first time her son Blake saw her inA League of Their Own, after a friend played it during a party. He told his mom that she was “like a teenager” in the film, “playing baseball and you sounded like Sylvester Stallone.”
She laughed and told her son, “Blakey, that’s my most famous movie. That’s how I became an entertainer, from that movie.”
He replied, “Yeah I never saw it, but it was weird to see you that young.”
Rosie O’Donnell and family.Rosie O’Donnell Instagram
Clarkson asked O’Donnell how her parenting has changed over the years, to which the actress admitted that she was “much too much of a lenient mother” with her older children.
“I wanted to give them everything, my older ones, when I was a young mother in my early thirties. I come to find out now, as a 60-year-old mother of a 9-year-old, that making the world so smooth and without a bump for them doesn’t serve them in adulthood,” she explained.
“It really doesn’t, and I was much too much of a lenient mother with my older ones and much too much trying to repair my own childhood through mothering them,” she continued.
“Now I have a little daughter who has autism, she’s 9 years old. Her autism is magical to me because it forces me to slow down, to take the time to really see the world from another person’s perspective.”
source: people.com
