Kate Beckinsale has revealed that she really hated being a teenager and found that time in her life really difficult. Kate says that she is currently helping her 13-year-old daughter Lily through that awkward teen phase, but when she went through it herself it was really hard for her, although she says her daughter doesn’t seem to be struggling like she did:
”I had a child young enough that it doesn’t feel too far away from my own experience. I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult. ‘I’m very supportive of how tricky seventh and eighth grade are for girls. I think it’s a very difficult time, but she’s doing great.”
Kate, who is married to director Len Wiseman, says that juggling motherhood and her own career as an actress is often hard. She makes it work by working for a period of time and then coming home for a while so she doesn’t miss her kids. She credits her own parents with helping her out regularly:
”It’s a constant juggle. It tends to be one extreme to another. I’ll do a crazy blast of working and then I’ll be home for a bit. It’s tricky and something that I don’t think I’d be able to pull off without having my parents come out and help out. ‘I do feel that family is very important and I’m lucky enough that my parents are very happy to come and stay with us for a couple months.”
Kate also comments on meeting her director husband, speaking on what it is like to work alongside someone your married to. She says it is a new experience each time, but there are definite perks to working with someone you love, because you get to be with them more regularly:
”The fist time we met each other was when we were filming ‘Underworld’, and then we worked together again after we’d been married a short while, and now we’ve been married seven years, so I’ve had quite a few different experiences along the way. It’s different each time. We love it. I think one of the things we like least about our jobs is that it can force separation from each other.”
