Scarlett Johansson likens motherhood to an 'emotionally abusive relationship'
foxnews.comScarlett Johansson is getting candid about parenting, offering up anecdotes as a mother to two young children. "Three is really tough," Johansson explained of the toddler stage. "I remember my daughter — my daughter is 8½. … When she was two, I thought, 'This is great, I don't know what everyone is talking about.' And then she turned three, and it was like being in an emotionally abusive relationship." Johansson shares Rose with ex-husband Romain Dauriac, as well as son Cosmo, 1, with her husband, "Saturday Night Live" star Colin Jost. "I just was like, ‘Oh my God.’ It's crazy, it was just so tense.
No reasoning. … Very intense emotional swings, and like so bossy and adamant and like it's just crazy. And also these huge mood swings — constant mood swings. … Those poor little guys, I feel bad for ‘em.
It must be a lot. … You're like up and down constantly," she explained on "The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast." "Having a baby is so lovely," Johansson said. "They're so cute.They sit there, and they love you, and then that's it.
And you just get like love from them, whereas you get a lot of grief from toddlers," the "Black Widow" actress said, laughing. "Like everything you do is not right.
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