Scarlett Johansson Quote and Interview On Motherhood

Scarlett Johansson

Proud mama! Ever since she welcomed her daughter in 2014, Scarlett Johansson has been honest about her journey as a mother and the obstacles that come with it.

Johansson and Romain Dauriac started dating in 2012 and later got engaged in September 2013. The couple welcomed their daughter, Rose, the following year before tying the knot in 2014.

A few months after giving birth to her daughter, the Marvel star opened up about their instant bond.

“It’s wonderful. It’s very, very magical — and exhausting,” Johansson told Barbara Walters during an ABC special in December 2014.

As Johansson adjusted to being a mother, she talked about how her career has improved since her little one’s arrival.

“I think having any kind of huge life-changing event happen to you, such as having children … is very, very inspiring. I think it will hopefully enrich my work, as well as my understanding of myself,” the Jojo Rabbit star told the Australian Daily Telegraph in April 2015.

Although Johansson was enjoying motherhood, the New York native later admitted that she was struggling with her work and home balance.

“I think you always feel a little bit of guilt,” she discussed with Entertainment Tonight in February 2017. “If you’re at work, you feel like you’re missing out on those special moments with your kid. If you’re with your kid, you feel like you’re not giving enough to your job. It’s a balance.”

She continued: “I don’t profess to know anything about parenting, anything more than anybody else, [but] being a working mom is an incredible challenge, [and] it’s an incredible gift.

January 2017 that Johansson and Dauriac split after two years of marriage. Following her divorce from Dauriac, the Tony award winner got honest about parenting alone.

“I felt in the past – there’s such a loneliness to being a single parent. Obviously, it’s a lot of different things at once, but there can be a loneliness and this constant feeling of doubt, that you don’t know what the hell you’re doing and you don’t have anyone else to bounce it off of,” Johansson revealed to USA Today in October 2019. “You maybe have doubts about your life: ‘How did I get here?’ It’s not all the time … but those moments creep in, and they creep in at weird times.”

Johansson, for her part, moved on with Colin Jost in May 2017. The pair got married in October 2020. A source previously revealed to Us that the comedian has a wonderful bond with Rose.

“Colin is a great father figure for Rose,” an insider exclusively told Us in November 2019. “He loves playing with her and she is obsessed with him.”

In August 2021, Us confirmed that the pair were expecting their first child together.

Jost announced the news during a stand-up set in Ridgefield, Connecticut earlier that month. “We’re having a baby,” he said during the show. “It’s exciting.”

The following day, Us confirmed that the couple’s first child had arrived.

Scroll down for all the moments that Johansson reflected on motherhood over the years:

Everything Scarlett Johansson Has Said About Motherhood Over the Years

Proud mama! Ever since she welcomed her daughter in 2014, Scarlett Johansson has been honest about her journey as a mother and the obstacles that come with it.

Johansson and Romain Dauriac started dating in 2012 and later got engaged in September 2013. The couple welcomed their daughter, Rose, the following year before tying the knot in 2014.

A few months after giving birth to her daughter, the Marvel star opened up about their instant bond.

“It’s wonderful. It’s very, very magical — and exhausting,” Johansson told Barbara Walters during an ABC special in December 2014.

As Johansson adjusted to being a mother, she talked about how her career has improved since her little one’s arrival.

Although Johansson was enjoying motherhood, the New York native later admitted that she was struggling with her work and home balance.

She continued: “I don’t profess to know anything about parenting, anything more than anybody else, [but] being a working mom is an incredible challenge, [and] it’s an incredible gift.

Us Weekly confirmed in January 2017 that Johansson and Dauriac split after two years of marriage. Following her divorce from Dauriac, the Tony award winner got honest about parenting alone.

Johansson, for her part, moved on with Colin Jost in May 2017. The pair got married in October 2020. A source previously revealed to Us that the comedian has a wonderful bond with Rose.

“Colin is a great father figure for Rose,” an insider exclusively told Us in November 2019. “He loves playing with her and she is obsessed with him.”

In August 2021, Us confirmed that the pair were expecting their first child together.

Jost announced the news during a stand-up set in Ridgefield, Connecticut earlier that month. “We’re having a baby,” he said during the show. “It’s exciting.”

The following day, Us confirmed that the couple’s first child had arrived.

Scroll down for all the moments that Johansson reflected on motherhood over the years:

December 2014

“The love is just unbelievable. It’s very overwhelming,” the Black Widow star told Walters about motherhood after welcoming her daughter a few months prior.

February 2015

The new mom got honest about her expectations when it came to her first child.

“When she came out of me, I was so surprised. I had a very strong picture in my mind of what my baby would look like, and, of course, she is completely different. Perfect, but not what I’d imagined,” the New York native told W magazine in February 2015.

April 2015

“I always really hate it when actors or people in the spotlight make giant grandiose statements about parenthood because it’s so, so personal,” Johansson told the Australian Daily Telegraph in April 2015. “I don’t profess to know anything more about parenting than anybody else.”

The actress explained that she still considered herself “such a newbie” when it came to parenting, but that her priories have already shifted.

“Before, I just made the choices that were affecting me, but now I’m responsible for somebody else. Eventually, I will have to work less, and it might even make me more discerning,” she noted.

April 2015

The Under the Skin actress admitted that it is “hard” to choose how much to share of her child with the world.

“On the one hand, you don’t want to isolate your kids, but you don’t want to make your kids feel like freaks: There’s this fascination with famous kids, like they’re celebrity spawn,” Johansson explained to Parade Magazine in April 2015.

February 2017

“I have a lot of huge admiration for working moms. I’m barely, barely holding it together,” Johansson told Entertainment Tonight in February 2017.

March 2017

“Even when I was shooting [Ghost in the Shell] I was still nursing. That is a very grounding [thing.] If you ever needed to return to yourself, that is a pretty wonderful way to come back to yourself when you go home,” Johansson told MARKMEETS News in March 2017.

The Lucy star also shared how she tried to separate her professional life from her personal one.

“You have to leave all that work stuff behind and be able to present with your kid. I am very thankful that’s my reality at the end of the day,” she added.

October 2019

“When you have a breakup of any kind, whether it’s amicable or not, you question a lot of the choices that you’ve made,” Johansson said in an interview with USA Today in October 2019 following her divorce from Rose’s dad. “These are all things that trigger my anxiety. [But] when I look at [my daughter], I feel full of hope and positivity. It’s good to wallow for a little bit. And then you have to pull yourself up.”

October 2019

“I prefer that the kids in my daughter’s school just think of me as Rose’s mom and not Black Widow,” Johansson joked during a conversation with the Review Journal in October 2019.

November 2019

“Now I have a child … not that I’m not career-driven now, but I guess I’ve been driven by other sides of my career in the past,” Johansson explained in a Vanity Fair cover story in November 2019. “Maybe I was more concerned with a certain kind of visibility or exposure. And now I’m not as worried about that stuff. I’m in a good phase in my career where I’m able to actually wait for stuff that’s right.”

July 2021

Johansson shared a fun story about how her daughter enjoys spending time with her.

“She shadows me, like, all the time,” the Her star told Kelly Clarkson during the singer’s talk show in July 2021. “Which is wonderful and I know that it’s something I’m sure in a few years she’s not going to want anything to do with me. So I should soak it all up.”

Although Johansson enjoyed getting to spend so much time with her child, she admitted that it wasn’t always perfect timing.

“There’s definitely times where she’s on the other side of the bathroom door and I’m like, ‘Rose, you gotta give me a minute!’ Everybody needs their time,” she added at the time. “But she means well and I’d rather have it that way than her wanting nothing to do with me.”

July 2021

While Johansson thought Rose would “make a big deal out of” seeing her mom in Home Alone 3, the little one was “whatever” about it, the actress told Seth Meyers.

November 2021

“I feel very fortunate that I’ve been able to take this time to really enjoy the early stages of my motherhood with our son,” Johansson told Entertainment Tonight during her first public outing with Jost after welcoming son Cosmo. “It’s been wonderful. I’m in a ‘baby bliss bubble.'”
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November 2021

Johansson called parenting an “incomparable” experience in November 2021, telling Extra: “I think being a parent is the hardest, most rewarding … thing you’ll ever do. I’m reminded of it constantly. I’ve been very fortunate to enjoy this time with … our young son. It’s a gift. I feel very lucky.”

December 2021

Rose is “neutral” about having a baby brother, the Black Widow star told Ellen DeGeneres. “She’ll come home talking a mile a minute and I have to remind her to say hi.”

December 2021

Johansson called her son a “fuzzball” and a “little peach” in an interview with Extra, gushing, “He’s lovely. He’s cute and doing cute things.”

December 2021

Since Rose has a “very active social calendar,” she isn’t very “interested” in baby brother Cosmo, Johansson told Jimmy Fallon, explaining, “She has a lot going on in her life.”

March 2022

Rose told InStyle in February 2022 that her daughter is full of questions. “Why are you tweezing your eyebrows? Why are you curling your lashes? What’s a tampon? What’s it for?” the actress said, imitating her daughter. “She asked me why my underwear went up my butt crack, and I had to try to explain what a panty line was. I was like, ‘Because you don’t want a line in your pants,’ and she was like, ‘Why?’ And I was like, ‘Because then you could see my underwear,’ and she was like, ‘But you are wearing underwear.’ Like, ‘I know, it’s weird.’”

March 2022

“While I was definitely excited to be pregnant in some ways, I also had a lot of not-great feelings about it,” Johansson told Vanity Fair, noting that this led to her keeping her 2021 pregnancy a secret. “I wanted to be able to have my own feelings about my changing body without other people also telling me how they saw me, whether it was positive or negative.”

March 2022

“I used to smoke when I was younger, and I’m so ashamed,” Johansson told Drew Barrymore. “I just don’t want [my daughter] to ever think that I ever thought it was cool because she can never, ever, ever smoke. Because that’s what you do. You forbid your kids from doing things. … I just hope she never figures out [that I smoked].”