{"id":41017,"date":"2025-12-18T05:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/zooey-deschanel-says-theres-one-side-of-herself-she-never-lets-her-kids-see\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T05:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:11:36","slug":"zooey-deschanel-says-theres-one-side-of-herself-she-never-lets-her-kids-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/zooey-deschanel-says-theres-one-side-of-herself-she-never-lets-her-kids-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Zooey Deschanel says there&#8217;s one side of herself she never lets her kids see"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69436a6e832e0ef1ead670bd?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Zooey Deschanel.\"\/><figcaption>Zooey Deschanel says she&#039;s careful her kids never see her doubt herself.<\/p>\n<p>Monica Schipper\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Zooey Deschanel, 45, says she doesn&#039;t let her two kids see her insecure.<\/li>\n<li>That&#039;s because kids &quot;get their self-esteem from their parents,&quot; the actor said.<\/li>\n<li>Although Hollywood can be brutal to women, she says she tries not to let comments about her appearance affect her.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Zooey Deschanel, 45, says she&#039;s mindful of how she shows up around her kids.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday&#039;s episode of &quot;Call Her Daddy,&quot; the &quot;Elf&quot; actor spoke about being bullied as a child and how it shaped her identity and her approach to parenting.<\/p>\n<p>Though she still has moments of insecurity, Deschanel says she doesn&#039;t let her kids see them.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I have a daughter and a son, and I don&#039;t want them to ever think like, &#039;Oh, Mommy&#039;s insecure,&#039; or, you know, like, &#039;My mom doesn&#039;t like\u2026&#039;&quot; Deschanel told host Alex Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I always want them to think I&#039;m happy with myself and, like, because they get their self-esteem from their parents, you know. So yeah, it&#039;s important to me to, like, show up with confidence,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Deschanel shares two children with her ex-husband, Jacob Pechenik. The pair split in 2019 after four years of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The actor said she&#039;s aware that Hollywood can be brutal to women when it comes to their appearance, but says she tries not to let that kind of commentary affect her.<\/p>\n<p>What&#039;s important is having a strong sense of self, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My identity was never super wrapped up in my appearance. I always made an effort to be like, what I&#039;m presenting is more about my style and like, artistic and creative expressions versus, &#039;Oh, like I&#039;m so just naturally perfect,&#039;&quot; Deschanel said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;All those things are so ephemeral and, you know, they change, and they&#039;re subjective. And so I think not having my identity so wrapped up in what I looked like when I was 25 is really great,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Deschanel says she tries to be fully present with her kids whenever she isn&#039;t working, including doing school drop-offs and pickups, taking them to playdates, and attending their extracurricular activities.<\/p>\n<p>When she is working, she focuses on attending the important events.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I get that sometimes you can&#039;t, but try to get there for like, whatever, the big game or the school play or like those big things, because those are the things they remember a lot,&quot; Deschanel said.<\/p>\n<p>Deschanel joins other celebrities talking about how they try to instill confidence in their kids.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to People in 2024, Carson Daly said he&#039;s honest about his own struggles with his kids and treats them like adults so they feel safe discussing difficult topics with him.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#039;ve always talked to them like they were 30 years old,&quot; Daly said.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Kate Winslet&#039;s daughter, Mia Threapleton, told Elle that her mother tried to instill body confidence in her from a young age, including when she was insecure about showing her shoulders while swimming.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My mom said: &#039;No, this is strong. So many people would love to be able to swim the length of the pool the way you do \u2014 think of it as a positive thing,&#039;&quot; Threapleton said, recalling her mother&#039;s words.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zooey Deschanel says she&#039;s careful her kids never see her doubt herself. Monica Schipper\/Getty Images Zooey Deschanel, 45, says she doesn&#039;t let her two kids see her insecure. That&#039;s because kids &quot;get their self-esteem from their parents,&quot; the actor said. 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