Pregnant Mandy Moore Says Her Sons Have Taught Her How to Advocate for Herself

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00:00Gosh, my boys have taught me everything.

00:02It's like, it really is the cliche

00:05that every parent mentions where your life

00:07just becomes technicolor

00:09after being black and white before them.

00:11Like I just, I can't, I have purpose, I have meaning.

00:15I'm better at having boundaries for myself because of them

00:19and obviously having boundaries for them.

00:21I'm better at advocating for myself and for them

00:24in a way that like, before they came along,

00:27I just, I feel like I was a constant people pleaser

00:30and I would always say yes.

00:32And being a parent just like shifts everything

00:35into this new perspective.

00:37Like your world is obviously,

00:39you're living your life for yourself as well,

00:41but it's like, it's totally about family first.

00:45Yeah, it's an unexplainable, unknowable love

00:49until you get into this position.

00:52It's the best, I love it.

00:54I mean, Rebecca is like a hard,

00:57she's on a pedestal for sure,

00:59but that is like a hard bar to reach.

01:01She just like, I feel like she was such an ultimate mom

01:06and they were the ultimate parents

01:07and it's hard to like live up to that for sure.

01:10But it's funny, I think back now with like the podcast

01:14and rewatching the show, I'm like, wow.

01:16Like just comparing notes of like,

01:18I didn't know any of this before

01:20and I still don't by any means.

01:22I'm clearly not like a parenting expert,

01:24but just having the wherewithal and like,

01:27you know, the life experience now a little bit

01:29for the past couple of years of being a parent,

01:31it's like, I guess I kind of nailed that.

01:34I kind of like knew what I was doing there,

01:36but like there are other scenarios where we totally deviate

01:40and like I would handle that differently.

01:42Like as parent now, I don't agree with how she,

01:45like with the choice that she made.

01:47So it's funny now to have that different perspective

01:49watching the show.