Jane Fonda ‘Didn’t Know How’ to Be a Mother to Her Three Kids When She Was Younger
glamour.comCNN's Chris Wallace on Friday, February 24 that when she was younger, she didn't always know how to be the type of parent she wanted to be.
Fonda, who has three children, 55-year-old Mary Williams, 54-year-old Vanessa Vadim, and a 49-year-old son Troy Garity, told the host, “I was not the kind of mother that I wished that I had been to my children.
I have great, great children—talented, smart. And I just didn't know how to do it.” She went on to explain, “I've studied parenting, and I know what it's supposed to be now.
I didn't know then. So I'm trying to show up now.” The shares her son with her late second husband, Tom Hayden, who also adopted her eldest daughter, and Vanessa is her child with her late first husband, French screenwriter and producer Roger Vadim.
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