Scarlett Johansson Jokes Raising a Toddler Is Like ‘Being in an Emotionally Abusive Relationship’: ‘Really Tough’

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The mayhem of motherhood! Scarlett Johansson got real about the troubles parents face while raising toddlers — and it’s not just the “terrible twos.”“[Age] 3 is really tough.

I remember my daughter — my daughter [is] 8 and a half — [but] when she was 2, I said, ‘This is great. I don’t know what everybody is talking about,’” Johansson, 38, recalled during the Sunday, April 2, episode of “The Skinny Confidential Him & Her” podcast. “And then she turned 3 and it’s like being in an emotionally abusive relationship.”The Black Widow actress explained: “It’s crazy, like, very intense emotional swings and [she was] so bossy and adamant, and it’s just crazy.”Johansson, who shares daughter Rose with ex-husband Romain Dauriac, remembered navigating “constant mood swings” with her eldest child. “I was like, ‘Those poor little guys.’ I feel bad for them.

You’re, like, up and down constantly,” she said.The Outset founder also shares son Cosmo, 20 months, with husband Colin Jost and noted that the phases of parenthood ebb and flow.“Having a baby is so lovely,” Johansson revealed. “They’re so cute.

They sit there and they love you and then that’s it. And you just get, like, love from them. You get a lot of grief from toddlers.