Teri Hatcher Talks About What It Is Like Being a Single Mom and Launches a New Website for Moms

June 7, 2010 by tiffanyb
Filed under: Celebrity Baby News

Teri Hatcher, who stars in The Desperate Housewives, recently partnered with Disney to create a new website called GetHatched, which helps moms connect and the actress recently talked to Babble on her being a single mom.

Hatcher, who is mom to 12 year old Emerson, explains why she created GetHatched with Disney. “Women do a lot these days; we make money, take care of our children, spouses, and communities, we carpool, we bake-sale, but sometimes we forget about ourselves,” she says. ”And for some strange reason, we often still confront feelings of not being good enough, and its high time there’s a shift in that attitude. Other strong women have inspired me, and I wanted to build a community where we could all learn from each other.”

When it comes to being a single mom, Teri notes, “Well, I’m not a desperate housewife; I just play one on TV. I’ve been blessed by a job filled with new friendships and memories and the freedom to not worry — quite so much — about college tuition and mortgages. As a single mom, there’s always a nagging feeling that this celebrity [status] could go away in a poof. You have to be conservative and smart; no Ferrari for me.”

Teri says that if she could teach her daughter one lesson it would be, “Life’s short — don’t waste time on things that are trivial. Get off your cell phone, travel, laugh.”