'Stepmother' is No Dirty Word to Lisa Edelstein
Mom Brain
Gallery Media Group, Hilaria Baldwin & Daphne Oz
3.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Lisa Edelstein is the actress you know from numerous series and is currently in Netflix's final season of The Kaminsky Method. She was also in The West Wing, Ally McBeal, House and she was the lead in Bravo's Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce. Catch Lisa in season 2 of Fox's 9-1-1:Lonestar alongside Rob Lowe, which premieres in January. Lisa is a proud stepmom to 2 beautiful boys and loves them just as if she was their biological mom. She wrote a really heartfelt, open and honest piece about her experience as a stepmom for Redbook that you should definitely take a minute to read.
Lisa tells Hilaria and Daphne about the complicated nature of being a stepmother. She explains how language and labeling become issues, how she has to navigate her role in their family, and sometimes know when it's important to take a backseat and just be supportive to her husband and sons. Plus, how she juggles marriage, raising kids, a career, and a relationship with the kids' mother. It's an honest conversation about what it is to be a stepmother.
Favorite Things:
Daphne: Busy Box Child sensory boxes
Hilaria: Zara Newborn Knitwear
Lisa: Making art with Prismacolor markers,
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| 0:00.0 | Being a mom is the toughest job there is and it doesn't come with instructions. |
| 0:05.0 | So it's okay if you don't have all the answers. |
| 0:07.7 | We'll figure it out together. |
| 0:09.4 | This is Mombrain with Alaria Bulbwin and Daphne Az. Hey guys, welcome back to Mom Brain. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Daphne. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Elaria. |
| 0:19.0 | And today we are joined by a very special mama. |
| 0:21.0 | You've probably seen her on shows like, oh I don't know, you know, |
| 0:24.2 | house, the West Wing, the Kaminsky method, and so many more. She is a People's Choice Award |
| 0:30.0 | winner for favorite TV actress. It's not hard to see why. We are so very excited |
| 0:34.8 | to welcome Lisa Edelstein. |
| 0:37.4 | Your guys are going to love her and we're super excited as well because she's our |
| 0:41.8 | very first step mom that we're going to talk to. |
| 0:45.0 | She is a loving stepmom to two boys and I am a stepmom myself and I always love talking |
| 0:50.8 | to other stepmommies because you know it is it is tricky it's a tricky |
| 0:56.4 | path to walk so she is extremely vocal about how she has managed to do this and do this under circumstances that you would be, you know, |
| 1:07.0 | skeptical if you were entering the situation. |
| 1:10.0 | So I'm really excited for you guys to listen to. |
| 1:12.6 | Anytime I post on Instagram about being a step mom, |
| 1:15.2 | there's so many other step moms out there. |
| 1:17.2 | And I feel like we are not talked about enough |
| 1:21.4 | and we don't talk enough. And it is something that we need a lot of |
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