Brooke Shields Says Being an Empty Nester Is ‘Not Simple for the Mothers.’
Now that her daughters have left for faculty, Brooke Shields is making an attempt to deal with empty-nest syndrome.
The actor posted an Instagram video on Monday reflecting on her youthful daughter beginning faculty. “Each my child birds have left the nest 🪺😫🪹,” she wrote within the caption.
“I sat right here a 12 months in the past, and I watched my huge lady depart. And I am again on this porch, and I’m now formally an empty nester,” Shields, 58, mentioned whereas holding again her tears.
She and her husband, Chris Henchy, have two daughters, Rowan, 21, and Grier, 18.
“They’re collectively no less than,” the “Fairly Child” actor mentioned. “Nevertheless it’s actually not straightforward for the mothers. I imply, it is simply so bizarre. It is so bizarre that she’s not right here.”
Shields recalled the emotional second when she needed to half from Grier. It was a tearful goodbye, and he or she had cried for “a very good portion of the trip dwelling,” she mentioned.
“So anyway, I am an empty nester,” she mentioned on the finish of the video. “Wow.”
On Friday, Shields posted a video of herself along with her daughters of their faculty dorm room. “Begin the automotive! Final one off to varsity 🥺,” she captioned the video.
Shields has opened up about her shut bond along with her daughters. She has matching tattoos along with her daughters — a ladybug with Rowan and a pair of excessive heels with Grier, per Leisure Tonight.
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In Could, she mentioned on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Present that her daughters nonetheless sleep on her mattress and watch romcoms along with her every time her husband goes on work journeys.
On the screening of her Netflix romcom, “Mom of the Bride” in Could, Shields advised Leisure Tonight that she could be a “mess” when Grier heads off to varsity.
“However I do know that they will come again,” she mentioned. “I imply, my older daughter comes again usually and, you realize, they’re going to be my infants eternally.”
How to deal with an empty nest
Coping with an empty nest may be tough for fogeys.
In 2023, Cristine Struble shared three suggestions with Enterprise Insider on how she and her husband adjusted to their empty nest.
They realized to say “sure” to social gatherings they beforehand by no means had the time to attend and realized to let themselves take naps. In addition they strived to concentrate on their relationship since their baby was not their precedence.
“Throughout this back-to-school season, the nest is likely to be empty, however we’re embracing the bounty of alternatives forward,” Struble wrote.
Different mother and father have coped by embracing their newfound solitude.
Veronica I. Arreola, a divorced empty nester, advised BI that she overcame her “mother guilt” and took a three-week solo journey to New Zealand.
“I spent 18 years making ready my daughter to exit and discover the world,” she wrote. “To try this myself is superior.”
A consultant for Shields didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark despatched exterior common enterprise hours.