Molly Ringwald is sharing the story about how her daughter, Mathilda, who she shares with husband Panio Gianopoulos, came to be. The 56-year-old actress opened up in an interview for The Times, revealing that her now 20-year-old daughter was conceived in an "iconic place" years ago.
"I believe that Mathilda was conceived in the dressing room at Studio 54 right at the end of my run playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret in 2003," The Breakfast Club actress shared. "It's so Mathilda to be conceived in such an iconic place," she joked.
"I always knew I wanted to have children but it took me a while — I was 36 when she was born," she said. "At that age the biological clock is a real thing and it had kind of become deafening. All I could think about was: must have kids."
She continued on to later open up about the challenges of motherhood. "The hardest thing about motherhood was realizing that my time was not my own," she said. "As an actress, I've traveled a lot and learnt to live with instability, but that's not great for kids. That's something I am always looking to improve on and luckily I have a husband who is a planner and is very stable."
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Mathilda is now following in her mom's footsteps with acting. She has a supporting role in Michael Showalter's film, The Idea of You. Molly expressed that it's "something that we thought a lot about. She learned how to do it before but it's a hard job and I think she knows what she's in for."
