By Deirdre Simmonds for DailyMail.com
00:23 10 March 2023, updated 00:56 10 March 2023
Seth Rogen has opened up about his choice not to be a father and his “very happy” life with wife Lauren Miller, whom he married in 2011 after seven years of dating.
When asked if he would be “happier” if he had children, the 40-year-old Superbad actor said he “didn’t think so” and credited the decision with helping him be “successful” in Hollywood. last two decades.
Talking about discussions between him and his wife as they age, the comedian said: ‘Now, more than anything, the conversations are honest, thank god we don’t have kids.’
‘We get to do everything we want, we are at the peak of our lives, we are smarter than ever, we understand ourselves more than ever, we have levels and levels of work to achieve’ communication and caring for each other, and a lifestyle that we can live with each other that we’ve never been able to live before, he said on Steven Bartlett’s The Diary of a CEO podcast.
The filmmaker continued: ‘And we can do just that and we don’t have to have a baby the world doesn’t need right now.’
Overall, Rogen said: ‘It seems that my wife and I get more active enjoyment out of having kids than I know anyone gets out of having kids.’
‘I’ve been around, obviously, a lot of kids, I’m not ignorant of what it’s like… I’ve seen everyone I know [have] Kids, I’m 40 years old. Some of my friends have had kids for decades, you know?’ Rogen pointed out. ‘Some people want children. Some people don’t want children.’
The star also said that ‘many people have children before they think’.
His interview comes two years after he said his wife ‘wants fewer kids’ than him on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show.
The Knocked Up star insisted that parenthood would stop him from being able to ‘do all the things’ that he loves.
‘We get mad all the time. We were lying in bed smoking weed on a Saturday morning, like watching nude movies – we couldn’t do that if we had kids,’ she thought.
The actor said, “There is no one whose child is giving them as much joy as we are getting right now because we don’t have a child.”
Howard, who has three daughters, says that as a parent you can’t be complacent and ‘give yourself up to parenting’ and the kids have to be a ‘priority’.
‘Yeah, I don’t want that. It’s not funny to me and why, there are enough kids out there. Do we need more people? The one who looks at the planet and thinks, do you know what we need, more good people. This is really an amazing thing for me.
Seth and Lauren started dating in 2004 after meeting on the show Da Ali G Show; He appeared in six episodes of the show.
The couple got engaged on September 29, 2010, and tied the knot on October 2, 2011, in Sonoma County, California.