Leighton Meester Explains Why She Prioritizes Time with Her Children Over Her Profession

Leighton Meester is prioritizing time spent along with her youngsters, even when which means she is popping down profession alternatives.

The Gossip Lady alum, 39, spoke with Bustle in a brand new interview and shared that she’s given up a number of alternatives in her profession to spend time along with her two youngsters, 9-year-old daughter Arlo and a 4-year-old son, whom she shares with husband Adam Brody, 45.

“There’s been lots of stuff that I have not finished as a result of I wish to be with them,” Meester stated of her youngsters. “I do not like being away from them. I am positive lots of people really feel this fashion, however I am particularly not into it.”

“Clearly, for the very proper factor, I might in all probability be like, ‘Let’s determine it out.’ I imply, I am not going to depart my household for a yr. We’re not doing that,” she continued. “However aside from that, we now have a great system in place, the place I can contemplate jobs fastidiously. And each different piece of life.”

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Again in February, Meester spoke with Vogue in a brand new video and gave a rare update on her two youngsters.

“My youngsters, they get what we do,” Meester stated within the clip. “They arrive on location quite a bit.”

Whereas Meester and Brody’s youngsters typically include their dad and mom to work, the mother of two added that they be certain that they’ve household time as effectively.

“I do not assume they’re fazed in any respect,” she continued. “They get lots of us off set and lots of us not working, which has been at all times a very large profit for each of us.”

In September, Meester’s husband Brody was a visitor on Today with Hoda and Jenna and shared that he and Meester have an open and honest relationship relating to their two youngsters.

Requested if he is an excellent strict, “helicopter” dad or the top of a “free-range” family, Brody shared, “After all, I’m going to really feel prefer it’s the right steadiness of all of it.”

He continued, “However yeah, I don’t know. [We’re] very sincere. Now we have some very truthful conversations, for higher or worse. However aside from that, I wouldn’t say overly strict.”

“There’s a helicopter, you understand, to maintain them protected,” he continued. “I’m not overly strict however I see the sharp edges, actually. And their heads aren’t gonna… I wish to maintain these heads maintained.”