Whoever said schoolyard bullying ends when you’re, well, out of the schoolyard, hasn’t met actress Cate Blanchett.
Our favourite Aussie export (and unequivocally the world’s most beautiful actress) is having some trouble with what she calls the ‘Mummy Mafia’.
You know the ones. The mothers who judge your parenting skills at the pick-up/drop-off zone. The mothers who clearly didn’t leave the drama behind when they graduated high school. The mothers who – okay, we’ll stop.
Blanchett, 45, has told Porter magazine about the intimidation she feels from the mafia.
Cate Blanchett on the cover of Porter magazine.
“They don’t know how you cram everything in to make space for your kids like any working parent,” she said.
“They assume you have a nanny and a driver and a chef. Who gives a s— whether I do or not?
“The fact is I don’t, but you know there is a certain circle of people – and we all get insecure – who then ask, ‘Why can’t she brush her hair?’ You just have to shrug that off.”
You tell ’em, Cate. And the next time you’re approached by the Mummy Mafia, just take some words of advice from our other favourite human being, Taylor Swift, and… Shake it off.
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I wouldn't normally comment on how mothers mother, but because Cate Blanchett is a public figure and is often held up as an example of a mother who manages to juggle it all so well I believe she ought to be a little more honest with the public about how she does it - otherwise she does the rest of us parents a disservice. Cate's kids went to the same primary school as my own before they moved to their new one, and I (as well as all the other parents at that school) can confirm that Cate and Andrew did in fact have a full-time nanny back then. This was when her youngest son Ignatius was a baby - and before. Cate and Andrew did drop their older kids at school but the nanny did the pick ups - with the newborn in tow. That nanny cared for the newborn all day on her own while the two older boys were at school. Then she looked after all three. When she resigned (exhaustion?), they got a new nanny. This was the situation for a number of years. The nanny also travelled with the family, sometimes travelling only with Cate and the baby while Andrew stayed in Sydney with the older boys. If you just go back to Cate's work schedule back then you can pretty easily see that she must have had full time help - any parent of a young baby knows that you can't play a 6-day a week role in a play (a really long one such as War of the Roses) and care for your baby at the same time! And then the film roles too, and STC...
Somebody needs to tell her: "It isn't all about you, love"