“One of the things that I have really enjoyed about where the discussion has gone, one of the places it’s gone,” she continued. “We have our family by blood and then we have our family by love. And I have both. And I consider it to be a real blessing. And I have two beautiful children, Cole and Ella, who call me Mamala. We have a very modern family. My husband’s ex-wife is a friend of mine, you know, and also, I’ll tell you, look, I’m a child of divorced parents, and when I started dating Doug, my husband, I was very thoughtful and sensitive to making sure that until I knew that our relationship was something that was gonna be real, I didn’t want to form a relationship with the kids and then walk away from that relationship. My own experience tells me that, you know, children form attachments, and you really wanna be thoughtful about it. And so I waited to meet the kids, and they’re my children, and I love those kids to death. Family comes in many forms, and I think that increasingly, you know, all of us understand that, you know, this is not the 1950s anymore. Families come in all kinds of shapes and forms, and they’re family nonetheless.”
