Bridgette Wilson-Sampras Talks About Motherhood. From faith. Thanks.
Posted by tennisplanet on February 7, 2008
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Nice photo of their kids on the link.
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Bridgette Wilson-Sampras Talks About Motherhood
February 2nd, 2008
Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, 34, is a successful actress, an advocate for such causes as Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the wife of Pete Sampras and a fully involved mother at her two young sons’ cooperative preschool. The Oregon native first captured public attention when she won the Miss Teen USA pageant in 1990; she then graced screens, small and big, first on the soap Santa Barbara, and in such movies as Unhook the Stars and The Wedding Planner. Along the way, she managed to become a bit of a singing sensation in Japan, crooning such radio hits as “I Only Want to Be with You,” and “Gimme a Kiss.”
Bridgette and tennis champ Pete married in 2000, and now make their sons, Christian, 5, and Ryan, 18 months, the center of their lives. “Putting my family and kids first,” Bridgette says, is her number one priority. “I work a lot less acting wise, but the jobs I do take mean something to me.” Today, Bridgette can often be seen performing her favorite role: helping toddlers eat their mid-morning snack. “I’m pretty involved at my co-op,” she says. “I love it.” She talked with Modern Mom about making time for workouts, romance and a guilty pleasure or two.
What’s your definition of a Modern Mom?
A Modern Mom is a woman who has the ability to put the job of “mommy” above all yet still find time to take care of her own body and spirit. I work out every morning before the kids get up and it helps me tremendously throughout my day—I’m a better mom for it! I also have a “girls’ night” every once in awhile to nurture my girlfriends, who I love and treasure. And very importantly, I schedule a regular “date night” to keep our love as a couple strong so we as parents are even stronger!
What’s your secret to balancing career and family?
I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first. Therefore, I work a lot less acting wise, but the jobs I do take mean something to me and my surrounding support system knows it. They work extra hard to help me during those times! Pete takes on more, and my mom will travel with me on location. I’m blessed to have the best of both worlds, but I do believe its because I work to nurture both.
What did your parents teach you about parenting?
My parents taught me the gift of giving love, as well as the gift of receiving it. I’m a “giver” by nature but it took time for me to learn how to accept those gifts of love given to me. I learned by watching my parents be great at both.
What do you want teach your children?
I hope to instill in my children the importance and gift of a “family unit.” I hope to teach them to trust themselves and their own hearts and I hope to encourage and inspire them to not only have dreams, but live them, too!
Who do you admire the most?
I admire the men and women in my life who taught by example, who taught unconditional love and gave it. My parents, my Grandma MaryAnn and Grandpa Larry and my Great Grandma Marcie. The strong foundation I have from these keys figures in my life is why I am who I am today. I admire their willingness to put family first and do it with love, love, and more love!
What’s your favorite family activity?
Hmmm, anything with all of us together is great—anything involving lots of hugs and cuddling even better smile
What is your greatest achievement?
Giving birth to two beautiful, healthy, happy boys –and picking the right man to do it with.
What products can’t you live without?
Amazing Cosmetics undereye concealer, lip gloss, and bronzer. Also, my Lumene face lotion, my Innovative Skincare face soap, and Aquaphor for all things baby. Also, we are way into Bare Naked Yogurt these days. That’s our guilty pleasure. We crawl into bed and eat yogurt and catch up on our Tivo’d shows! Could I live without it? Yes, but it’s yummy!
What do you do when you’re feeling selfish?
I wouldn’t use the term selfish. I would say I am trying to be “self-full”. I will get a massage or have some girl time and get a pedicure with my sister.
What’s keeping you busy these days?
I’m a part of a co-op preschool that requires a fair amount of involvement. I love it. That, and my boys, keeps me busy. I also just finished working on the biopic Phantom Punch: The true story of boxing great Sonny Liston. I had the most amazing time working on that movie. What a treat it was that it came into my world! Life is good.
http://babyrazzi.com/baby/2008/02/02/bridgette-wilson-sampras-talks-about-motherhood/
Eva said
Is this a distraction from tennis and its issues currently? Surely we could read this kind of stuff in women’s magazines, or Reader’s Digest.
Well, it’s nice for Bridgette that she enjoys feeding other people’s children every day. However, it is quite likely that she has some other irons in the fire. True, it has become “fashionable” to have a baby these days; has no one noticed that in Hollywood it is the greatest accessory?
Being a mother is natural to many people and anyone who has a child knows that it is a bond for life. But it is not the end- all and be-all of life. The current trend is to almost sanctify mothers, but we know that shouldn’t be done. Not only that, but we know that motherhood can be a very hard struggle for millions of people who don’t have the means of middle- and/or upper class people. People are individuals, and some women are good mothers to their own offspring, and can be grasping and disregarding of the welfare of the rest of their society.
This idealization of “Mom” really is like a Norman Rockwell painting. All pretty and depicted in sentimental hues, but not necessarily having much to do with actual reality.
Being a mother is about being a family. If societies really cared about these things, they would see to it that even in our so-called developed North American countries there wouldn’t be millions of people whose children may be malnourished, and their mother’s teeth may fall out early, making them look old, and where there is no outlook for the men, who may turn to drink as an anodyne for psychic pain, for the pain of feeling that they are unable to better their lives. Add to that the generations that have been marginalized by all the out-placing of jobs–many of these are young men, their lives never to recover completely–
and we can seee that all this talk of family, motherhood is just that, talk.
Bridgette sounds like a decent and nice woman, but her story is more suited to Women’s Daily, and other such magazines.
Faith, Hope, and Charity: we should remember that the greatest among these is charity, not as handouts, but charity as a provision for self-respect, decent means greater and horizons for families, for each member of a family.
Sarah said
She is beautiful and blonde. TP, do you consider her a trophy wife too?