Jamie Lee Curtis is an outstanding mother, actress, and wife — this we know to be true. As we also know, JLC had a 7-year stint selling Activia yogurt, something that was easy to make fun of. Who can forget those iconic Saturday Night Live sketches?
Now, the actress is addressing those commercials and knows they were silly, but she had a super good reason to do it.
Appearing on the new episode of The Kingcast, co-host Scott Wampler asked the 62-year-old if she ever sat back and thought about how cool she is — something I would surely do if I was her.
“Do you understand how [explective] cool you are? Like do you know that?” Scott asked the actress.
Jamie replied that was so grateful for every opportunity, but the long list of opportunities was taking a toll on her family.
“By the way, just to make sure your listeners all understand, it’s the reason that I sold yogurt that makes you [expletive] for seven years,” she said, referring to her infamous time as an Activia spokesperson.
“Part of the reason why I’ve done commercials … I’ve been doing commercials for a very, very, very long time partially so I can ameliorate all of that distance from my family. It allowed me to earn money and stay home.”
“I had two kids and I needed to stay home. So I make no excuses about it, but it just gives you an idea, why does somebody do that?” she explained.
“They do that for money … and for me, it was an easier way to make money and it allowed me to stay home and try to be a better mom, which was my primary purpose.”
“I know that [it’s] cool and I agree with you, it’s just not what I live for,” she clarified, referring to her impressive resume.
“I’m happy to have had those experiences, [but] they were all met with a lot of personal strife because I’m a mother and a wife.”
The 62-year-old recalled filming A Fish Called Wanda while being away from her then newborn baby.
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She admitted her memories of filming include “crying on the way to work and the way back from work because I just felt [expletive].”
“No matter what, I felt bad … there are lots of separations from my family that I’m not gonna say I regret, but really took a toll,” she said.
“So it’s funny, I don’t look at those pieces of work now and all these years later [think] ‘Oh yeah, that was cool!'”
She concluded:
“The truth is that all of those experiences that you talked about which were cool and are cool took a toll on me because I was trying to reconcile at all of those times, ‘How do you do this?’ How do you be a mom, how do you be a wife, how do you have a career, how do you have to go away from home, how do you do it?”
We think you’ve done amazing, Jamie Lee!