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“I look astatine my friends with kids, and honestly…some of them look similar possibly they privation they had enactment a small much thought into it.”
In a caller Vogue screen interview, Timothée Chalamet raised eyebrows by suggesting that it’s “bleak” to beryllium child-free by choice.
The discourse of the punctuation was that helium was recalling his absorption to an interrogation with idiosyncratic — whose sanction helium would “definitely” not uncover — “bragging astir not having kids and however overmuch clip it afforded them to bash different stuff.” “Holy shit. Oh my God. Bleak,” helium recalled saying to a friend.
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As you whitethorn person seen, Timothée copped a batch of backlash for these comments. And amid the online discourse, immoderate fans speculated that helium whitethorn person been referencing Seth Rogen, who’s 1 of the astir notable celebrities to person discussed the benefits of being child-free. But, it’s worthy noting that TONS of celebrities person talked openly astir the reasons they’ve chosen not to person kids. So, here’s a roundup of stars who are child-free and emotion it that way.
1. Seth and his wife, Lauren Miller, person been unneurotic since 2004 and got joined successful 2011. And since then, Seth has attributed a batch of his vocation occurrence to the information that helium and Lauren actively chose not to person kids.
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“Me and my wife, neither of america were similar that. Honestly, the older we get the much blessed and reaffirmed we are with our prime to not person kids,” helium said in 2023. “We are successful the premier of our lives. We are smarter than we've ever been. We recognize ourselves much than we ever have. We person the capableness to execute a level of enactment and a level of connection and attraction for 1 another, and a manner we tin unrecorded with 1 different that we've ne'er been capable to unrecorded before, and we tin conscionable bash that and we don't person to rise a kid — which the satellite does not request close now.”
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Notably, Seth has faced backlash for sharing his views connected child-free life, and helium followed up earlier this twelvemonth by telling critics: “You should lone person kids if you truly privation kids, and we conscionable don’t truly privation kids…I look astatine my friends with kids, and honestly, I consciousness similar immoderate of them are incredibly blessed and fulfilled, and immoderate of them look similar possibly they privation they had enactment a small much thought into it. I conscionable didn’t privation to beryllium 1 of those people.”
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2. Tracee Ellis Ross is child-free and azygous successful her 50s — and precise blessed that way. “I bash not judge that my beingness is unworthy due to the fact that I don’t person children,” said during an quality astatine the New York Times Well Festival this year. “I bash not judge that my beingness is unworthy due to the fact that I bash not person a antheral oregon partner. I bash judge that I parent each implicit the place. I bash judge that I bash precise valued things successful the satellite and for radical that I attraction astir and love.”
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3. In a 2019 interrogation with Elle magazine, Miley Cyrus opened up astir the judgement that comes with not wanting kids, saying: “People consciousness atrocious for you, similar you’re a cold, heartless bitch who’s not susceptible of love…Why are we trained that emotion means putting yourself 2nd and those you emotion first? If you emotion yourself, past what? You travel first.”
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In the aforesaid interview, she stated that her tendency to unrecorded a child-free beingness has mostly been influenced by clime change. “We're getting handed a piece-of-shit planet, and I garbage to manus that down to my child,” she said. “Until I consciousness similar my kid would unrecorded connected an world with food successful the water, I'm not bringing successful different idiosyncratic to woody with that.”
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4. Speaking of Miley, her godmother, Dolly Parton, has besides been precise vocal astir not having her ain children. Dolly, who was joined to her precocious husband, Carl Dean, for 60 years, said during an interrogation with Oprah successful 2020 that not having kids allowed her overmuch much state successful life.
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“I didn't person children due to the fact that I believed that God didn't mean for maine to person kids…so I could bash things similar Imagination Library [her publication gifting program],” she said. “Because if I hadn't had the state to work, I wouldn't person done each the things I've done. I wouldn't beryllium successful a presumption to bash each of the things I'm doing now.” Knowing she made the close decision, Dolly added: “I've made sacrifices, but I think, similar I said, I judge what I cognize I'm expected to do.”
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5. In an interrogation with the Guardian successful 2013, Christopher Walken said helium would “absolutely not” person the vocation helium has contiguous if helium and his wife, Georgianne, had had children. “I'm definite galore of the kids I knew arsenic a kid would person continued successful showbusiness, but they had kids of their own, had to bash thing dependable,” helium said, explaining that being child-free gave him the flexibility to bash immoderate helium wanted. “I didn't, truthful I could get by adjacent successful periods of unemployment.”
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6. Kim Cattrall considered having children by herself erstwhile she was successful her precocious 30s, and adjacent made “inquiries done my ob-gyn astir sperm banks.” However, she yet realized that having her ain kids wasn’t successful her destiny. “When I consciousness mislaid and can't marque a decision, I conscionable halt and get quiet. I instrumentality a time-out. I inquire myself, ‘How does this feel? What bash I privation my beingness to beryllium like?’” she said successful O Magazine successful 2003. “I effort not to perceive to the shoulds oregon coulds, and effort to get beyond expectations, adjacent pressure, oregon trying to delight — and conscionable listen…When I answered those questions regarding having children, I realized that truthful overmuch of the unit I was feeling was from extracurricular sources, and I knew I wasn't acceptable to instrumentality that measurement into motherhood.”
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Despite not pursuing motherhood successful the accepted sense, Kim has been precise wide astir the information that she inactive considers herself to beryllium a “parent.” “There is simply a mode to go a parent successful this time and age, which doesn’t see your sanction connected the child’s commencement certificate. You tin explicit that maternal side, precise clearly, precise strongly,” she told the BBC successful 2015. “I didn’t alteration nappies, which is good with me, but I did assistance my niece get done aesculapian school. I did beryllium down with my nephew erstwhile helium was [going through] a precise pugnacious clip to articulation the army. And those are precise motherly things to do, precise nurturing things to do.”
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7. In 2023, Margaret Cho said that she simply didn’t prioritize having kids due to the fact that it “doesn’t look similar fun.” “I deliberation my beingness would've been precise antithetic if I had children. I yet decided not to due to the fact that I conscionable don't privation to emotion anybody that much, and that's a hard choice,” she said during an interrogation for The Midst. “I spot that hap with my friends and household and their kids, and I'm like, ‘That doesn't look similar fun.’”
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8. Though he’s previously joked that helium mightiness person immoderate kids moving astir retired there, Jared Leto told ES Magazine successful 2017 that he’s acold excessively engaged to perpetrate to fatherhood. “I deliberation it’s truly important to beryllium contiguous if you person children,” helium said. “I person a batch of...things to instrumentality attraction of.”
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9. Oprah Winfrey has agelong stood steadfast successful her determination not to person children oregon get married, contempt being successful a narration with Stedman Graham since the 1980s. “If I had kids, my kids would hatred me,” she told the Hollywood Reporter successful 2013. “They would person ended up connected the equivalent of the Oprah amusement talking astir me; due to the fact that thing [in my life] would person had to endure and it would’ve astir apt been them.”
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She doubled down again successful 2019, telling People that her enactment connected The Oprah Winfrey Show showed her “the extent of work and sacrifice that is really required to beryllium a mother.” “I realized, ‘Whoa, I’m talking to a batch of messed-up people, and they are messed up due to the fact that they had mothers and fathers who were not alert of however superior that occupation is,’” she said. “I don’t person the quality to compartmentalize the mode I spot different women do. It is why, passim my years, I person had the highest respect for women who take to beryllium astatine location [with] their kids, due to the fact that I don’t cognize however you bash that each time long.”
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10. In 2024, John Cena candidly said that the crushed helium and his wife, Shay Shariatzadeh, haven’t had kids is simply due to the fact that they “don't privation them.” “I person a definite curiosity astir life, and I besides cognize the concern that it takes,” helium said connected the Club Shay Shay podcast. “I don't deliberation I'm personally ready, nor volition I ever be, to put the clip it needs to beryllium a large genitor due to the fact that I privation to unrecorded beingness for each it is…And I inactive person a batch to do. And I inactive privation to bash a lot. I person a fantastic spouse I bash it with. We've had unfastened conversations astir this. We stock the aforesaid values.”
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11. Mary J. Blige is “Just Fine” with not having kids. “I person nieces and nephews forever, and I’m ever watching however radical are scrambling astir for babysitters. I don’t privation to spell done that,” she told E! Daily Pop successful 2022. “I similar my freedom. I similar being capable to get up and spell and determination and bash what I privation to do. I don’t privation to person to thin to idiosyncratic each the time.”
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12 & 13. Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres emotion kids, but they’re blessed not to person their own. “At this point, I consciousness similar I'm disappointing the full of America, not conscionable my mother,” Portia joked during an interrogation with Jimmy Kimmel in 2014. “[Kids are] adorable and we emotion them and we play with them, and past we leave.”
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That aforesaid year, Ellen made akin comments during an interrogation with People, saying, “We'd astir apt beryllium large parents. But it's a quality being, and unless you deliberation you person fantabulous skills and person a thrust oregon yearning successful you to bash that, the magnitude of enactment that that is and work — I wouldn't privation to screw them up.”
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14. Chelsea Handler is simply not funny successful having children, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t emotion them. “People deliberation I hatred kids,” she said during an quality connected Jimmy Kimmel Live this year. “I don't hatred kids, I conscionable don't privation one. It's conscionable like, I don't privation spaghetti bolognese — I'm not interested, you know?” She antecedently told Us Weekly: “I'm not the marrying kind. I americium not looking for children. I conscionable privation to person tons of emotion stories.”
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15. Back successful 2008, Renée Zellweger told The London Times that “motherhood has ne'er been an ambition” for her. “I don't deliberation similar that,” she explained. “I ne'er person expectations like, 'When I'm 19 I'm going to bash this, and by the clip I've deed 25 I'm going to bash that.' I conscionable instrumentality things arsenic they come, each time astatine a time, and if things happen, each good and good. I conscionable privation to beryllium autarkic and beryllium capable to instrumentality attraction of myself. Anything other is conscionable gravy.”
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Years later, successful 2025, Renée talked to The Irish Times astir however she feels the societal conversations astir child-free surviving person changed. “To take not to person children isn’t that exceptional, is it?” she said. “I deliberation it’s rather common.” And this database shows that she’s right!
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16. Perhaps my favourite no-BS reasoning for not having children, Stevie Nicks told In Style successful 2002: “I don't privation to spell to PTA meetings.” “It's like, Do you privation to beryllium an creator and a writer, oregon a woman and a lover?” she explained. “With kids, your absorption changes.”
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17. Sam Rockwell and his semipermanent partner, The White Lotus prima Leslie Bibb, person been unneurotic for astir 20 years, and their lives are perfectly large without kids. “We conscionable similar it the mode it is,” Sam told The Standard successful 2022. “Listen, if I knew they’d crook retired great, past possibly — but there’s conscionable nary guarantee…I don’t privation to beryllium selfish and beryllium a atrocious parent. It takes a batch to beryllium a parent.”
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18. Back successful 2007, Rachael Ray said she simply had excessively overmuch going connected successful her beingness to beryllium a parent. “I don’t person time,” she told People. “I enactment excessively overmuch to beryllium an due parent. I consciousness similar a atrocious ma to my canine immoderate days due to the fact that I’m conscionable not present enough. I conscionable consciousness similar I would bash a atrocious occupation if I took the clip to virtually springiness commencement to a kid close present and effort and juggle everything I’m doing.”
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In 2025, Rachael reflected on the backlash she faced for opting not to person kids, but made it wide that she has nary regrets astatine all. “Boy, did I get bashed for it implicit the decades,” she said connected her I'll Sleep When I'm Dead podcast. “For me, if I person the implicit worst day, oregon I'm sick arsenic a canine — arsenic the look goes — the happening that makes maine consciousness champion is to spell location and virtually ascent into furniture nether a broad with my dog.”
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19. Lily Tomlin said determination “wouldn't person been country successful [her] beingness to rise children.” “I didn't privation to — and I'm gladsome I don't — person immoderate children. God lone knows what I would person done with them, mediocre things,” she told Metro Weekly successful 2006. “I was truthful progressive with my career, and I would person had to springiness up the vocation successful ample portion due to the fact that I could not perchance person shortchanged the child.” When asked if she would’ve been a bully mother, Lily replied: “I astir apt would person been. But I was selfish. I didn’t privation to be.”
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20. Ava DuVernay is child-free by choice, but feels that her films are her children. “I enactment my humor into them,” the Selma manager told Mama Knows It All. “It’s truly what has my sanction connected it. It’s what I’ll permission down successful the world.”
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21. In 2018, Sarah Paulson told Town & Country that she’d chosen to absorption connected her acting career, not raising kids. “I don’t privation to beryllium torn,” she said. “I don’t privation to look astatine my kid and say, 'You’re the astir bonzer happening that ever happened to me, but besides the decease knell.’”
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“It was hard for my parent to beryllium everywhere, to travel to the schoolhouse play and marque a living,” she continued. “I’ve ever known what I wanted retired of my nonrecreational life, and I didn’t privation to crook astir and go, 'If I had lone made the prime to conscionable dedicate this clip successful my beingness to me.' It’s selfish, but I deliberation the connection selfish gets a atrocious rap.”
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22. Alison Brie joined Dave Franco successful 2017, and since then, she’s talked candidly astir the information that neither of them are funny successful having kids. “I don’t truly privation to person kids,” she told The London Times successful 2019. “It’s great, due to the fact that I don’t interest astir erstwhile should I get pregnant, betwixt seasons, portion we’re shooting [Glow], I don’t deliberation astir it each day. I deliberation astir however overmuch we’re progressive successful our cats’ lives. Oh my God, if it was a child.”
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23. Ricky Gervais and his wife, Jane Fallon, are precise overmuch agreed successful their determination not to person children. And successful the past, Ricky has shared the “many reasons” for this beingness choice. Having antecedently joked astir the satellite being “overpopulated,” Ricky told Ellen DeGeneres successful 2019 that parenthood would origin him mode excessively overmuch anxiety. “I'd interest sick astir a baby. I person a feline and I interest astir that. I cheque the doorway 3 times earlier I spell out,” helium said. “I enactment nutrient and h2o successful each country successful lawsuit the doorway closes and he's peckish for 20 minutes.”
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24. Gloria Steinem has credited the feminist question for giving her the assurance to take a child-free life. “I accepted it for a agelong time, and I thought that ‘OK, I'm getting married. I'm having children. I'm decidedly doing that, conscionable not close now.’ I'd enactment it successful the aboriginal and then, fortunately, the women's question came on and made maine recognize I was really blessed and that determination were much ways to unrecorded than one,” she said astatine the Feminist Makers Conference successful 2014.
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25. Dame Helen Mirren told British Vogue that having children was not portion of her “destiny.” “I kept reasoning it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it ne'er did, and I didn't attraction what radical thought,” she said. “It was lone boring aged men [who would inquire me]. And whenever they went, 'What? No children? Well, you'd amended get connected with it, aged girl,' I'd say, 'No! Fuck off!’”
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