Seth Rogen opened up about his choice not to become a father and his ‘very happy’ life with wife Lauren Miller, who he wed in 2011 after seven years of dating.
After he was asked if he would be might be ‘happier’ if he had children, the 40-year-old Superbad actor said he didn’t ‘think it would’ and credits the decision for helping him ‘succeed’ in Hollywood over the past two decades.
While speaking about discussions between him and his spouse as they get older, the comedian said: ‘Now, more than anything, the conversation is honestly, thank God we don’t have children.’
‘We get to do whatever we want, we are in the prime of our lives, we are smarter than we’ve ever been, we understand ourselves more than we ever have, we have the capacity to achieve a level of work and a level of communication and care for one another, and a lifestyle we can live with one another 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 just do that and we don’t have to raise a child, which the world does not need right now.’
Childfree lifestyle: Seth Rogen opened up about his choice not to become a father and his ‘very happy’ life with wife Lauren Miller, who he wed in 2011 after seven years of dating
Happy marriage: After he was asked if he would be might be ‘happier’ if he had children, the 40-year-old Superbad actor said he didn’t ‘think it would’ and credits the decision for helping him ‘succeed’ in Hollywood over the past two decades; seen in 2016
Overall, Rogen noted: ‘Me and my wife seem to get a lot more active enjoyment out of not having kids than anyone I know seems to get out of having kids.’
‘I’ve been around, obviously, a lot of children, I’m not ignorant to what it’s like to… I’ve seen everyone I know [have] kids, I’m 40. Some of my friends have had kids for decades, you know?’ Rogen pointed out. ‘Some people want kids. Some people don’t want kids.’
The star also stated that ‘a lot of people have kids before they even think about it.’
His interview comes two years after he said that his wife ‘wants kids less than’ him on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show.
The Knocked Up star insisted that parenthood would prevent them from being ‘able to do all this work that’ he likes.
‘We’re f*****g psyched all the time. We’re lying in bed on Saturday mornings smoking weed, like watching movies naked – if we had kids we could not be f*****g be doing this,’ he mused.
‘There is no one whose child is giving them as much joy as we are right now getting because we do not have a kid,’ the actor added.
Howard, who has three daughters, says as a parent you can’t be narcissistic and ‘give yourself over to parenting,’ and the kids have to be the ‘priority.’
Not interested in parenthood: While speaking about discussions between him and his spouse as they get older, the comedian said: ‘Now, more than anything, the conversation is honestly, thank God we don’t have children’
Satisfied: Overall, Rogen noted: ‘Me and my wife seem to get a lot more active enjoyment out of not having kids than anyone I know seems to get out of having kids’
‘Yeah, I don’t want that. That does not sound fun to me and why, there’s enough kids out there. Do we need more people? Who looks at the planet and thinks, do you know what we need, more f****n people. Like that is truly a confounding thing to me.’
Seth and Lauren began dating in 2004 after meeting on the show Da Ali G Show; he appeared on 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.
