Selena Gomez recalls babysitting experience for celebrity mom

Motherhood has been on Selena Gomez's mind lately. The 32-year-old, who revealed earlier this month that she won't be able to carry her own children, just shared an anecdote about babysitting that helped her imagine what being a mother would be like.

The Only murders happen in the building Stern interviewed Law & Order: SVU Star Mariska Hargitay for Interview magazine She recently revealed that she gets to babysit for the celebrity mom who has played lead role Olivia Benson for 25 years. When Gomez interviewed the star, she revealed how she once got the chance to do school pickup for Hargitay.

“I wanted to ask a personal question, as someone who wants to be a mother,” the Rare Beauty founder asked Hargitay, who is mother to children Amaya, 13, and Andrew, 13, with husband Peter Hermann on August 18. “How does the compensation work? Because I remember picking up your kids from school one day and I really enjoyed that,” Gomez remembers. “It felt so normal and real. How do you balance that? Because one day I hope to do that.”

Wow, imagine the Selena Gomez Pick you up from school? If that happens, my kids would never want to see me in line again! It is unclear under what circumstances this babysitting job took place, but it seems that it made her more confident in her decision to become a mother one day.

Of course, Hargitay had a nice answer for her friend. “And you will,” she assured Gomez that she would one day become a mother. “It’s hard for all working mothers. There were so many times that I was torn or frustrated because in our job you can't say, “Guys, I'm not coming in today.” But I incorporated it here. My children come to work with me. Are there things I miss? Yes.”

She continued: “The flip side is that my kids are really proud of me. I talk to them a lot about what kind of life you want, who you want to be and how you want to spend your time. And what do you want to give back and who do you want to influence and what do you want to create? And so I look at it now and think, yeah, I missed something. There were days when the nanny did a little more and that was hard. But for the first year I took August to work with me every day. And you can too. It's doable. I am happier and live a more fulfilling life, and they feel and see that. And when I’m with them, I’m with them.”

Who else thinks Steve Martin and Martin Short would be the cutest pseudo-grandpas if Gomez brought a baby to film? OmitB?!

The “Love On” singer shared Vanity Fair This month she learned that she is unable to conceive due to her experience with bipolar disorder and lupus. She revealed that she “unfortunately cannot carry my own children” and added: “I have many medical issues that would endanger my life and the baby's life.” This realization was “something I had to grieve for a while “, says Gomez, which is completely understandable.

Surrogacy and adoption are options for the 32-year-old. “I think it's a blessing that there are wonderful people who are willing to take on surrogacy or adoption, both of which are great options for me,” she said. “I'm excited to see what this journey will look like.” (By the way, Hargitay has also adopted children, so maybe she could give her babysitter friend some advice when the time comes!)

Whatever her path to motherhood may be, Gomez seems to have had a lot of practice. In addition to Hargitay's children, she also babysat Jessica Simpson's daughter Maxwell! Simpson revealed that her then 10-year-old daughter “met a really good friend of Selena's little sister” so she got to go to an Olivia Rodrigo concert with them. “She's 10 years old, she really needs to see a live show,” she said on Instagram Live in 2022. “So thank you, Olivia Rodrigo, for this show. And thank you Selena for being a great babysitter.”

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