Kristen Bell Says She Cries Weekly Over "Brutal" Marriage and Parenting

Kristen Bell wants you to know that being on your TV does not make parenting easy. In a new interview, the 46-year-old called navigating marriage and raising two daughters“brutal,”and admitted she cries about it weekly. She and Dax Shepard share Lincoln, 13, and Delta, 11, and Bell says her main job in life is protecting those two, especially now that they’re old enough to see what the internet says about their family.

That has pushed her to rethink how much she shares publicly about her kids, a tricky balance for someone who has built a reputation for candid confessions about motherhood. She’s been leaning on parenting experts Dr. Becky Kennedy and Lisa Damour to help navigate the teenage years, and she’s said she’d sacrifice her career before missing a major moment in her daughters’lives. Shepard has echoed that same approach, saying the couple intentionally raises daughters who advocate for themselves.

If you’ve ever cried in the car after a school event, this one’s for you. Bell’s whole point is that the glossy version of parenting, celebrity or not, isn’t real. Where do you land on the privacy question? How much should parents share about their kids online? Sound off in the comments.