For those of you who really know me, you know that I spent a good two years hosting a movie trailer show called “The Big Tease” on ReelzChannel (circa 2007-09, aka “before babies”). Back then, I saw every movie, every trailer, interviewed every celebrity… I LOVED IT. I’d been a lifelong celebrity-and-movie-junkie and I was living my dream, hosting television shows all about celebrities and movies. It was fabulous beyond what I could believe. Until I found out I was *unexpectedly* pregnant with LadyP (circa January 2010). All of you who know me knows what happened then: The jobs of me talking about celebrities and reviewing movies got less and less as my belly got more and more. To be blunt: I was sad. I was sad to see my legitimately budding-career (that I had hustled hours and days and weeks and years to achieve) simply slip away because my personal life was evolving. My friends remember how down I was for the majority of 2010 (before LadyP arrived)… I cried and ultimately mourned the end of my previous life before the new love in my life was even born… The dream, the jobs, the “me” that I worked so hard for would soon be GONE. I wasn’t ready for it.
I know better now. With an equal-parts stubborn-and-sweet personality, LadyP delivered me confidence, focus, love and purpose that no television show ever could. And when LilMiss barged into our lives about a year and a half later, all those things that LadyP brought got even more intense. Who knew that kids could change you in ways you never imagined? I am CHANGED, I tell you… and I find that I keep changing. Had I known all the things that having a family of your own brings, I’d have rushed to do this a loooooooong time ago (that way, I at least could’ve talked to all those celebs about parenthood back then too).
So if two little nuggets could change me so much, I only wonder what 533 kids would do to someone? Lucky for us, Vince Vaughn’s upcoming Disney flick Delivery Man has got a few theories…
Image courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
In the film, Vince Vaughn plays an affable underachiever looking for his purpose in life, when he’s suddenly notified that he’s fathered 533 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic 20 years ago. Now he must decide whether or not to come forward when 142 of them want to meet their biological father. Nevermind that I have been ob-sessed with the fast-talking snark of ‘The V’ for a while now (admittedly, The Break Up is one of my all-time faves — that Playstation sequence still kills me), I can’t help but wonder how much becoming a parent has affected him (Vince is currently a dad to a toddler and has another little one on the way). Maybe One of the last lines in this trailer (below) resonated with me in a very real way and almost made me teary… maybe it resonates with Vince too. Can you guess which line? WATCH!
DID HAVING A FAMILY CHANGE YOU?
