Seth Rogen credits not having children with helping him “succeed” and insists that he and his wife Lauren are “very happy” with their decision not to have children.
Seth Rogen has opened up about his decision not to be a father and his “very happy” life with his wife Lauren Miller, whom he married in 2011 after seven years of dating.
After being asked if he would be “happier” if he had children, the Superbad actor, 40, said he didn’t “think it would be like this” and credits the decision for helping him “succeed” in Hollywood over the past few years. Two decades.
While talking about the arguments between him and his spouse as they got older, the comedian said: “Now more than anything, the conversation is honestly, thank God we don’t have kids.”
“We can do whatever we want, we are in the prime of our lives, we are smarter than ever, we understand each other better than ever, we have the ability to achieve a level of work and a level of communication and mutual care, and a lifestyle that we can live with each other that we have never been able to live before,’ he said on the Steven Bartlett show. Diary of a CEO podcast.
The filmmaker continued: “And we can do that and we don’t have to raise a child, which the world doesn’t need right now.”
Kid-free lifestyle: Seth Rogen opened up about his decision not to be a father and his “very happy” life with wife Lauren Miller, whom he married in 2011 after seven years of dating
Happy marriage: After being asked if he would be “happier” if he had children, the Superbad actor, 40, said he didn’t “believe it would be like this” and credits the decision for helping him “succeed” in Hollywood in the last two decades; seen in 2016
Overall, Rogen noted, “My wife and I seem to enjoy not having children much more than anyone else I know who seems to enjoy having children.”
“I’ve obviously been around a lot of kids, I’m not ignorant of what it is… I’ve seen everyone I know. [have] children, I am 40 years old. Some of my friends have had children for decades, you know? Rogen pointed out. Some people want children. Some people don’t want children.
The star also stated that “a lot of people have kids before they even think about it.”
His interview comes two years after he said his wife “wants less kids than him” on SiriusXM. The Howard Stern Show.
The Knocked Up star insisted that fatherhood would prevent them from being “able to do all this work” that he enjoys.
We’re fucking psyched all the time. We’re lying in bed on Saturday mornings smoking weed, like watching movies naked; if we had kids, we couldn’t be doing this,” she mused.
“There is no one whose child is giving them as much joy as we are receiving right now because we don’t have a child,” the actor added.
Howard, who has three daughters, says that as a parent you can’t be narcissistic and ‘indulge in parenthood’, and that the children should be the ‘priority’.
Not interested in parenthood: Speaking about the arguments between him and his spouse as they get older, the comedian said, “Now more than anything the conversation is honest, thank goodness we don’t have kids.”
Satisfied: Overall, Rogen noted, “My wife and I seem to enjoy not having children much more than anyone else I know who seems to enjoy having children.”
‘Yeah, I don’t want that. That doesn’t sound like fun to me and why, there are enough kids out there. We need more people? Who looks at the planet and thinks, you know what we need, more people screwed up. As if that was really confusing to me.
Seth and Lauren began dating in 2004 after meeting on the Da Ali G Show; he appeared in six episodes of the show.
The couple got engaged on September 29, 2010, and married on October 2, 2011 in Sonoma County, California.
Strong: Seth and Lauren started dating in 2004 after meeting on the Da Ali G Show; appeared in six episodes of the show (pictured in 2014)