{"id":37124,"date":"2025-10-31T05:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/keira-knightley-shares-the-no-nonsense-advice-from-her-mom-that-shaped-how-she-balances-work-and-kids\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T05:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:41:16","slug":"keira-knightley-shares-the-no-nonsense-advice-from-her-mom-that-shaped-how-she-balances-work-and-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/keira-knightley-shares-the-no-nonsense-advice-from-her-mom-that-shaped-how-she-balances-work-and-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Keira Knightley shares the no-nonsense advice from her mom that shaped how she balances work and kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6904269a599d46a4ccc13361?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Keira Knightley.\"\/><figcaption>Keira Knightley is learning to embrace the chaos of being a working mother.<\/p>\n<p>Variety\/Variety via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Keira Knightley says her mom gave her a no-nonsense piece of advice about balancing work and kids.<\/li>\n<li>&#039;You just get on with it. You just do it,&#039;&quot; the &quot;Pride and Prejudice&quot; star said, recalling her mom&#039;s words.<\/li>\n<li>Knightley added that she&#039;s &quot;tried to get as much work&quot; as she can in London for the sake of her family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keira Knightley, 40, says she&#039;s learning to embrace the chaos of being a working mother.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on Wednesday&#039;s episode of &quot;Giovanna Fletcher&#039;s Happy Mum Happy Baby&quot; podcast, the actor shared her mother&#039;s no-nonsense advice on juggling a career and kids.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;She&#039;s a proper second-wave feminist. &#039;You just get on with it. You just do it. That&#039;s what you do. You have the babies and you take them and that&#039;s what you do, you know,&#039;&quot; Knightley told host Giovanna Fletcher, recalling her mother&#039;s words.<\/p>\n<p>After having two daughters of her own, whom she shares with her husband, musician James Righton, Knightley said she has come to agree with her mother&#039;s perspective.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There is a reality to it. You do just make it work,&quot; Knightley said. &quot;It does look different for absolutely everybody, and it&#039;s always a mess. And I think this is what I&#039;ve come to just accept, is that it&#039;s always messy.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The &quot;Pride and Prejudice&quot; star added that she&#039;s &quot;really lucky&quot; because she has a strong support system that includes her husband and her mom.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever she&#039;s filming, her husband, who works from home, can help keep things running. &quot;It sort of works well from that point of view,&quot; Knightley said, &quot;but it&#039;s always a mess.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But things are easier now that her kids are slightly older, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And definitely just from, you know, from being able to, if there&#039;s a problem, they can call me,&quot; Knightley said, adding that even though her daughters don&#039;t have phones, school staff can always get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Knightley said her next job will be based in London, which means she won&#039;t be &quot;disrupting their life.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Their life is set. They&#039;re at school. They&#039;ve got their friends. They&#039;ve got the stuff. We&#039;ve got our support network around us because we&#039;re at home,&quot; Knightley said.<\/p>\n<p>The actor added that she&#039;s &quot;tried to get as much work&quot; as she can in London for the sake of her family. In particular, she felt that her kids needed some stability in their lives after the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I felt for me, you know, and I think for actors that&#039;s very difficult because we move all over the world. So, I&#039;ve really tried to kind of keep it in London, and been really fortunate that I could kind of I could make that work,&quot; Knightley said.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2024, the &quot;Pirates of the Caribbean&quot; actor said she took a step back from her career because of her kids.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I couldn&#039;t go job to job [abroad] now. It wouldn&#039;t be in any way fair on them, and I wouldn&#039;t want to,&quot; Knightley told The Times. &quot;I&#039;ve chosen to have children, I want to bring them up, so I&#039;ve had to take a major step back.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Knightley did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.<\/p>\n<p>She&#039;s far from the only Hollywood parent to speak about balancing work and family life.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Cameron Diaz, who took a decadelong hiatus from Hollywood, said she spent those 10 years &quot;trying to stay alive just like every other mother.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Hailey Bieber said she wouldn&#039;t have been able to manage working and being a mom without outside support.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I do have help. I have full-time help. And I&#039;m super not ashamed to say that,&quot; the Rhode founder said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keira Knightley is learning to embrace the chaos of being a working mother. Variety\/Variety via Getty Images Keira Knightley says her mom gave her a no-nonsense piece of advice about balancing work and kids. &#039;You just get on with it. You just do it,&#039;&quot; the &quot;Pride and Prejudice&quot; star said, recalling her mom&#039;s words. 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