Jamie Chung Was Afraid to Lose Her Identity successful Motherhood
Jamie Chung is giving a peek wrong her astir rewarding journey yet: motherhood.
Though the Real World alum said being a ma to her 14-month-old duplicate boys with Bryan Greenberg is more fulfilling than she could've ever imagined, she told E! News that wasn't ever the case.
"A lot of my peers and radical my property were truthful focused connected [their] vocation and hitting these beingness goals," Jamie exclusively said to E!'s Francesca Amiker, "and we're truthful acrophobic of losing identity; I surely was."
Jamie explained that earlier she decided to commencement a family, she didn't privation to beryllium relegated to a mom.
"I don't privation to person to marque the sacrifices, and I don't privation to suffer everything that I've worked for and who I am," the 39-year-old shared. "But the irony is, this past year, I chose to enactment location to rise my kids. And I learned much astir myself than I [ever] have."
She continued, "When I stopped resisting the relation of being a parent—it goes backmost to losing oneself—you rapidly recognize what you're warring is growth."
After embracing this caller chapter, the Sucker Punch actress said that being a ma has really go 1 of her top strengths.
"I realized I'm susceptible of overmuch more," she enactment it simply. "I thought I was lone capable to juggle truthful overmuch but I tin bash it each earlier noon!"
But the actress kept it real, pointing retired that raising twins is nary tiny feat.
"It's a small harder. It's surely much work, but it's possible," she revealed. "And it is perfectly rewarding...It's been a truly breathtaking twelvemonth and truly fulfilling one."
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Luckily, Jamie—who teamed up with Duracell on their Holiday Safely campaign—has a large enactment strategy and resources connected hand.
"They bushed maine to the punch successful presumption of educating maine connected however to support my kids harmless from batteries," she said of the partnership. "It made consciousness due to the fact that my kids came to an property wherever they're crawling and putting everything successful their mouth."
The ma of 2 added, "They're truthful fast. I enactment them down, I crook astir and they're gone. So you person to beryllium connected your toes."
And erstwhile Jamie could usage a recharge, she praised Bryan for ever stepping in.
"We're truly connected adjacent playing fields here," she shared. "He shows up, helium does his best. We person to larn from each other, but it conscionable requires a batch of connection and patience, and you determination done it."
She added, "But determination are times wherever I'm wholly burned retired from the time and I person a large spouse that takes over."
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