{"id":1788777,"date":"2022-12-28T14:33:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788777"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:34:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:34:01","slug":"rita-wilson-says-slowing-down-her-movie-career-to-raise-her-kids-wasnt-a-sacrifice-but-a-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rita-wilson-says-slowing-down-her-movie-career-to-raise-her-kids-wasnt-a-sacrifice-but-a-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Rita Wilson says \u2018Slowing Down\u2019 Her Movie Career To Raise Her Kids Wasn\u2019t \u2018A Sacrifice\u2019 \u2018But A Choice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frita-wilson-says-slowing-down-her-movie-career-to-raise-her-kids-wasnt-a-sacrifice-but-a-choice%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788777&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Hollywood star Rita Wilson said she wouldn\u2019t call \u201cslowing down\u201d her movie career to raise her and actor Tom Hanks\u2019 children \u201ca sacrifice\u201d and said it\u2019s more of \u201ca choice\u201d To be there for them at home.<\/p>\n<p>Interview with a variety of people <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/rita-wilson-says-slowing-down-career-when-kids-were-young-wasnt-sacrifice-but-choice\/\">People<\/a> Magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/rita-wilson\">66-year-old<\/a> Actress talked about leaving the spotlight to raise her children. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tom-hanks-says-hes-made-only-four-pretty-good-movies-during-his-entire-career\">Hanks\u2019<\/a> two kids and be there for her two stepkids from her husband\u2019s earlier marriage as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI slowed down my work because I really wanted to be the mom that was there when they got home, drove the carpool and did all those things,\u201d Wilson explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTom was also working a lot, so we would travel with him,\u201d She continued. \u201cIf both of us were working and not home, my kids would have been affected. I wouldn\u2019t call slowing down my career a sacrifice, I would call it a choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilson began working in Hollywood as a 16-year-old when she was offered a part on NBC&#8217;s TV series. \u201cThe Brady Bunch.\u201d Later she was featured on such shows as \u201cThree\u2019s Company\u201d  \u201cBosom Buddies\u201d Before she could make it to the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s probably best known for her roles in movies like \u201cSleepless in Seattle\u201d  \u201cThat Thing You Do.\u201d But as Hanks\u2019 career took off, she said one of them needed to be home. Rita said that she doesn&#8217;t regret her decision and added that the two of them have always been supportive.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rita Wilson explains that slowing down her career while her kids were young wasn&#8217;t a sacrifice, but a choice <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yZ7ekHXrBj\">https:\/\/t.co\/yZ7ekHXrBj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 People (@people) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/people\/status\/1607830711569981443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTom and I have always been supportive of each other and what we do,\u201d Wilson shared. \u201cI remember doing press junkets back in the day, and interviewers would say to me, \u2018Gosh, it must be so difficult to be with someone so famous.\u2019 I would think, \u2018Why are they saying that?\u2019 Then I realized that the question was more about them and how they would feel in that situation than me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have someone who is happy for your success, and you\u2019re happy for their success, that\u2019s not even an issue that comes up,\u201d She continued. \u201cYou know about schadenfreude, when you\u2019re happy for someone\u2019s failure? Well, there\u2019s another concept called freudenfreude, which is when you\u2019re happy for someone\u2019s success. I live in the freudenfreude. Somebody else\u2019s success does not diminish my own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rita and Hanks are married for over 30 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/megan-fox-says-she-stepped-out-of-limelight-because-she-wasnt-allowed-to-be-a-human\">Megan Fox Says She Stepped Out Of \u2018Limelight\u2019 Because She \u2018Wasn\u2019t Allowed\u2019 To \u2018Be A\u00a0Human\u2019<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood star Rita Wilson said she wouldn\u2019t call \u201cslowing down\u201d her movie career to raise her and actor Tom Hanks\u2019 children \u201ca sacrifice\u201d and said it\u2019s more of \u201ca choice\u201d to be there at home for them. In a wide-ranging interview for People magazine, the 66-year-old actress talked about stepping away from the spotlight to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1788780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[12206,7197,8074,4409,3925,6202,4010,4247,4868,5283,12205,10869,4862,5056,6195],"class_list":["post-1788777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-slowing","tag-a","tag-but","tag-career","tag-choice","tag-daily","tag-down","tag-kids","tag-movie","tag-raise","tag-rita","tag-sacrifice","tag-wasnt","tag-wilson","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}