Motherhood is not all peaches and cream. Charlize Theron certainly understands this notion to be true as she tells media that sometimes she references her kids, August and Jackson, as “little a*sholes.”<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s messy,” Charlize says<\/a> of being a parent. “Anybody who\u2019s raised kids will tell you that… It\u2019s not as pretty and perfect \u2014 other moms don\u2019t always feel like it\u2019s a blessing… I even find sometimes I say stuff about my kids and people will be like, \u2018Don\u2019t call them a*sholes.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018But that\u2019s how I feel about them some days! I feel like they\u2019re being little a*sholes!\u2019”<\/p>\n The celebrity mom goes on to call for an honest conversation about parenting with special regard to motherhood. “A lot of times it’s the non-parents who are so ready to give you advice,” Charlize explains<\/a>. “The world tells us that once you have a baby you just kind of naturally go into this state of knowing what to do. When you say anything honest about how messy it is, it tends to come with a lot of shame \u2014 and there shouldn’t be any shame attached to it. The more we kind of talk about it and share those experiences with each other, the less we feel alone.”<\/p>\n