Kate Winslet, 46, is a mother to 3 children from 3 different husbands. That said, somehow, she makes it work perfectly. She shares daughter Mia with her first husband Jim Threapleton and son Joe with Sam Mendes. Finally, she had a son, Bear Blaze, with her current husband, Edward Abel Smith (earlier known as Ned Rocknroll). Mia is now 21 so Kate’s journey into parenthood is 21-years-old and she says she would change nothing about it.
Bright Side adores strong women and Kate Winslet is as powerful as they come. Here’s how she keeps her blended but beautiful family together and makes it work just right.
1. Kate has a can-do, will-do attitude.
Winslet’s firstborn, daughter Mia Honey was not even a year old when her marriage to Jim Threapleton ended. Later, she married director Sam Mendes and had a son, Joe Alfie. 9 years later, Winslet was a single mother again but she never let it bring her down because being a mom for Winslet meant having a can-do attitude.
Barely months after giving birth to her third child, son Bear Blaze with her third husband Edward Abel Smith, Winslet was shooting again. She told the media what it meant to be a mom to her, and it was absolutely a can-do, have-to-do situation. Said Winslet, “There’s something really empowering about going, ’Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!’ That’s the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just DO.”
2. Powering through the age gaps.
Mia is now 21 and very much an adult, making her foray into movies. Her debut movie was with Kate, in 2014, titled A Little Chaos. Her elder son, Joe, is 18, and Kate’s youngest, Bear Blaze is now 8 years old. That’s quite an age gap to handle and Winslet admitted that it was a challenge with all of her children needing different things from her, emotionally or otherwise.
She said, “Logistically, that is very complicated because it means different schools, different pick-up times, different after-school clubs, and so on. And emotionally too, they all have very different things they need from me.”
