![]() ![]() Unlike their neighbors, though (or, maybe just like them, Malibu being a pretty nice place), they have a few other homes as well, including the 30-acre ranch near Taos, N.M, where Roberts and Moder tied the knot on July 4, 2002, and where the actress historically loved spending as much time as possible. But since the kids go to school in Southern California, that is where the majority of the magic-the family meals, the holiday baking, the mah-jongg with friends, knitting and needlepoint, birthday parties, soccer games, surfing and skateboarding-takes place. "We're just grateful for the sense we have of being like any other family down the street," Roberts told the WSJ. "I don't question it, frankly." Not that Hazel, Finn (as Mom and Dad call him) and their brother Henry, born June 18, 2007, didn't have a variety of clues starting from a young age that their parents didn't have typical 9-to-5s, whether it was all the travel or playing on film sets and in Broadway theater dressing rooms or having the occasional Oscar winner (aside from their mom) stop by their house in Malibu, where they've lived since they became a family of five. ("She was very sweet with my children who had never been to a show before, they are all big fans," Roberts told Extra about the experience. "And she said, 'Would you mind coming on stage during the song and dancing?' and I said to my children, 'Well, what do you think?' And they all said, 'Oh, Mom you have to do it!' and my youngest son said, 'Only do it if you want to, Mommy.' It was so sweet!") And we're guessing their minds were pretty blown when Roberts took them to Swift's 1989 Tour in 2015 and their mother was invited to share the stage with the headliner. Roberts recalled that the kids chewed on that for about an hour, before asking her, "Are you more famous than Taylor Swift?" "I think I told you once when they were starting to figure it out, it was like, 'You're famous?' And I said, 'I think a lot of people might have seen the movie that I'm in or might know who I am."' 28, acknowledged to Oprah Winfrey in a sit-down with the media mogul for Harper's Bazaar in 2018. "I don't think they will ever have a true sense of that," Roberts, who turns 55 on Oct. Her kids got wind of what she did for a living eventually-but even so, if you didn't witness the Pretty Woman, Notting Hillor Erin Brockovichdays firsthand, the storied nature of her career might have been hard to grasp. She always slips away from the center."Īcknowledging that taking a step back from work to focus solely on motherhood was an "incredible luxury," Roberts told Gwyneth Paltrow on The goop Podcast in October 2018 that she had felt, after 18 extremely busy, lucrative years of making movies, that "I had earned that time to do whatever I want to do with it, with these new people in our house." There are toys all over, and it's just Julia and Danny and the kids. When you visit them, there is nobody working at their house, sweeping their hall. It's the little things that tell the tale. The late Mike Nichols, who directed Roberts in 2004's Closer and 2007's Charlie Wilson's War, attested to her starring role as Mom, telling the Wall Street Journal, "That's what Julia has been best at, maintaining their real life. ![]()
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