Julia Louis-Dreyfus Recalls Having to Remind Herself Being a Working Mom Was 'Good' for Her Sons to 'Witness'

The comedian shares her sons Henry, 30, and Charlie, 26, with husband Brad Hall

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is looking back on some of her complicated feelings about being a working mom.

During a Wednesday, May 29 episode of her Lemonada Media podcast Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the comedian, 63, spoke with Gloria Steinem, 90, about how she felt being a working mom when she was raising her two sons, Henry and Charlie, now 30 and 26.

"You know it’s funny because I was thinking about how even in my own life, the patriarchal culture that we live in has sort of crept into my own life in a way that I almost didn’t realize until I was sort of living it," Louis-Dreyfus began.

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"For example, I’m married and I have two children. Two sons, who I hope to Jesus I’ve raised to be good feminists — I think that I have," she went on, noting that she was going to ask her kids later if they considered themselves feminists.

"But I worked. When they were both born, I was working full-time and that was a huge struggle for me. That was a hard thing for me to reconcile, the going back and forth," the mom of two recalled. "And I had to intellectually remind myself that working, being a mother who worked outside of the house was good for them to witness. But it was a struggle for me."

Louis-Dreyfus shares her two sons with her longtime husband Brad Hall, 66.

In an earlier podcast episode, the comedian spoke about an uncomfortable experience she had while giving birth to her son Henry. Louis-Dreyfus shared that because she appears on television, fans often think of her as a friend rather than a stranger.

“I think particularly with television, with computer, I should say, I mean everybody’s watching it on all these other devices. But you’re in their home," Louis-Dreyfus began.

"I mean, you have that experience with your show, no doubt. You’re in their home so they feel relaxed with your presence," she told guest Ina Garten, who added, "And they feel like you’re a friend."

“Correct. Which can be lovely, there is a downside to it though," the comedian said.

"I was giving birth and when you’re in labor, they put that monitor around your tummy. And I was in the bathroom and I was naked and I had the thing around my tummy and I was massive, by the way. I gained like 50 pounds when I was pregnant," the mom of two said.

"And I was standing there, and my water broke, and all of a sudden a nurse came into the room and I went, ‘My water broke!’ Ok, reminding you — naked. And she goes, ‘Elaine!’ It was so awful. Isn’t that crazy?"

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