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Jennifer Lawrence may be a movie star, but that apparently entails getting to stay home with her kids quite a bit. In an episode of the SmartLess podcast on Monday, the Die My Love actress sat down with hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett to talk about craft, fame, and parenting.
“Speaking of babies, Jen, are you the soccer mom you’ve been dreaming about?” Bateman asked. Lawrence responded that she’s unexpectedly an “ice-hockey mom,” because her 4-year-old son is into hockey, just like his dad. As Lawrence explained how her husband, Cooke Maroney, likes to play hockey in the house with the kids, Bateman admitted, half-jokingly, that he’s “tempted to just like not ever work again and just be home with the kids.”
“That’s me. I identify as a stay-at-home mom,” Lawrence said in response. “But I am obviously working.”
“I’m not used to being busy like this. I normally have a busy three months while I’m filming, but even in that sense, it’s calm because there is nothing else to do,” she added. “I just go to work, I do that, I come home, I sleep, and then I do it again. And then, like, two weeks while you promote. It is hectic.”
Lawrence went on to explain that adding an awards campaign to the mix complicates the family’s strict schedule. In a rare public outing, she and Maroney, who have been married since 2019, attended the 2026 Golden Globe Awards Sunday night, where Lawrence was nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama for her role in Die My Love. She ultimately lost out to Hamnet’s Jessie Buckley, and while it’s unclear how she feels about, I’m sure she was excited to get back to her kids: 4-year-old Cy and a second baby whose name they’ve kept private.
At least she has Maroney to hold down the fort when things get stressful. The kids are “on a very strict schedule — it’s like, breakfast: 7:30,” she said of her husband. “He’s good at keeping it, but we’ve learned to keep our marriage alive, I have a 15-minute wiggle room.”
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