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Sandra Bullock shared that her two kids Louis and Laila, whom she adopted while in her late 40s, were major factors in her decision to make a sequel to Practical Magic with Nicole Kidman.
Sandra Bullock Shares Rare Insight Into Raising Her 2 Kids
Sandra Bullock has no blind side when it comes to how she wants to spend her time.
In fact, the Oscar winner said the upcoming Practical Magic 2—her first movie in four years and the long-awaited sequel to her and Nicole Kidman’s 1998 film—was only made possible because her kids Louis, 16, and Laila, 12, were “out of school” during production.
"I’m not going to sacrifice my time with my kids,” Sandra said during an April 16 panel at CNBC’s Changemakers Summit. “They’d be happy if I was gone, I would not.”
Plus, the 61-year-old noted the quality of the film would have been affected if she was away from her children for too long.
“I do not do my best work if my children are struggling or if they need something and I can’t facilitate it," she continued. "I’m raising my children, not anybody else.”
But while Sandra admittedly has the “luxury” of building her work schedule around her kids, she recognized that “so many people don’t.”
“I understand that grief and that angst,” she shared, “when you are at work, going, 'I’m not where I need to be right now. I’m here being performative and doing my job.'”
And Sandra’s mindset comes from her experience of becoming a mom in her late 40s. As she previously explained, she’s grateful that she didn’t start her family at a time when she was “still searching” for herself.
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"I needed to grow up," she said on Good Morning America in 2022. "I know who I am. I know what I'm not. I'm always growing, but I don't feel that I'm angry going, 'I'm missing out on life because I have [kids].' No."
"I look at my life before my kids and I don't want to say it felt like a waste of time, it just felt like I was rushing to a destination that didn't exist,” Sandra added. “Now I'm here and I don't want to be anywhere else."
Read on to see Sandra through the years, from before motherhood to now…
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