{"id":79687,"date":"2016-05-06T11:16:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=79687"},"modified":"2016-05-06T17:21:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T00:21:42","slug":"lucy-liu-tylenol-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/lucy-liu-tylenol-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Liu Discusses Her Definition of Family and How She&#8217;ll Be Spending Her First Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably know her as the sexy, crime-fighting Alex Munday in <em>Charlie\u2019s Angels<\/em> or as the intelligent Joan Watson on <em>Elementary<\/em>. Well, you should also know that Lucy Liu is an amazing new mom who\u2019s encouraging mothers\u00a0everywhere with her inspirational story as a single parent.<\/p>\n<p>We chatted with Liu\u00a0about her new life with Rockwell and her recent partnership with Tylenol and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yN2AUhCF0H0\" target=\"_blank\">#HowWeFamily<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Congratulations on Rockwell! How have your first months of motherhood been?<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nThey have been just a feeling of elation &#8212; and really busy because, you know, people haven\u2019t seen me in a long really long time. They want to see the baby and I\u2019m just juggling [it all].<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"6\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BFEgljVIl0B\/\" target=\"_blank\">Love being a mom! Partnering with @tylenol to celebrate all types of moms. Share your motherhood story with #howwefamily<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by Lucy Liu (@lucyliu) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-05-06T15:14:55+00:00\">May 6, 2016 at 8:14am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Why did you decide to join Tylenol\u2019s #HowWeFamily campaign?<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nI love that their main focus is to be inclusive and to also spread the message that it\u2019s not about how you have a family, but it\u2019s about how you love your family. Being a mom who\u2019s single, how I went about having it through a gestational carrier, how people now have gay parents or transgender children &#8212; there\u2019s different ways of being a parent and there should be no judgment or criticism going about that. I don\u2019t think the traditional way of having a child is the only way to do it, so their message to me was very powerful and important. Family at home is definitely something you create. And that\u2019s what [Tylenol is] telling people to do.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What advice would you give to someone who is considering a surrogate?<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nI would say make sure that you feel 100% comfortable with the person and that you also have an idea of what you want or what you need from that person. Make sure that the person or the agency\/doctor you\u2019re connected with has had a relationship with the person in the past so everything is out in the open. Never feel like you\u2019re disconnected.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What do you find are some of the biggest struggles for mothers today?<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nI think there\u2019s a struggle of working and being at home with your baby. I feel like, for me, asking for help is a struggle many women have. [Moms] shouldn\u2019t feel like they have to do everything. They can ask their friends and their family to help them. When you become a mom, you have to do the laundry, take care of the baby, and you have to work, [but] you shouldn\u2019t put yourself in a position where you feel guilty to ask for help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/static-blog.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/06105459\/LL-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\" size-full wp-image-79688 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static-blog.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/06105459\/LL-2.jpg\" alt=\"LL-2\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Has being a mom changed the way you approach work?<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nYes, absolutely. You become a little more aware of projects that you\u2019d rather not bother doing because you\u2019d rather stay at home [with the baby]. Your world opens up so much and at the same time you start to drop things that don\u2019t excite you as much, and I think that\u2019s good. And on a bigger scale, what you do and how you do it is much greater [after becoming a mom].<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Lastly, how will you be spending your first Mother\u2019s Day?<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nI\u2019m going to be spending my first Mother\u2019s Day in pajamas all day &#8212; and just hanging out at home with my baby and having family and friends come over.<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"You probably know her as the sexy, crime-fighting Alex Munday in Charlie\u2019s Angels or as ...","author":422344,"featured_media":79693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/06110052\/10805-10805-3.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/06110052\/10805-10805-3.jpg","formated_date":"May 6, 2016","category_name":"Celebrity","category_icon":"","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#e21284","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}