Julia Roberts Gushes Over Danny Moder Marriage, Life With 3 Children

Residing the dream! After a long time collectively, Julia Roberts and Danny Moder’s love has solely gotten stronger.

“Once I’m not working, [being a homemaker] is my full-time job,” the Runaway Bride star, 54, gushed throughout a Sunday, October 9, interview on CBS Sunday Morning. “It isn’t rainbows and kittens each day, nevertheless it does carry me numerous pleasure.”

She added: “It’s simply by no means consumed me, being an actor. It’s my dream come true, however it’s not my solely dream come true. The life that I’ve constructed with my husband [and] the life that we’ve constructed with our kids, that’s the very best stuff. To return house on the finish of the day, triumphantly, to them.”

Roberts and Moder, 53, have been collectively for greater than 20 years, tying the knot in July 2002, however at all times be in contact regardless of the space when she’s engaged on set.

“[Writing handwritten notes is] one thing Danny and I’ve at all times performed,” she instructed CBS anchor Jane Pauley on Sunday. “The primary letter he ever wrote me, which was seven pages lengthy, I nonetheless have it tucked away. In the future I’ll present it to [my daughter] Hazel and say, ‘That’s what you’re on the lookout for.’”

The Ticket to Paradise star and the cinematographer finally expanded their brood, welcoming twins Hazel and Phinnaeus and youthful son Henry in 2004 and 2007, respectively.

“I at all times assume that all of them appear to be me, after which Danny comes house from work, and I’m going, ‘Oh, you, that’s who they appear to be,’” Roberts quipped in the course of the CBS interview, calling Henry, 15, her go-to “breakfast buddy” and Hazel, 17, a “one-of-a-kind” woman.

“My daughter was digging via the closet on the lookout for potential promenade clothes final spring, was, like, ‘What’s this gown?’” Roberts recalled, referring to the black Valentino robe that she wore to the 2001 Academy Awards when she received Finest Actress. “I stated, ‘Nicely, attempt it on.’ It was too large for her, however she appeared so pretty.”

Whereas Hazel was too small to put on her mother’s famed robe on the time, she later made her purple carpet debut alongside her dad on the Cannes Movie Competition premiere of Flag Day.

“We had been Facetiming really proper earlier than they went out. And she or he was mendacity on the mattress, and I stated, ‘What time is it? What are you guys doing?’ She goes, ‘Oh, Dad’s, you realize, simply placing his tie on. We’re on the point of go.’ And I stated, ‘Oh, are you prepared?’ ‘Yeah.’ Like, she didn’t actually look able to me, you realize, ponytail?” Roberts reminisced of final 12 months’s occasion. “And I used to be, like, ‘Hmm, little eyeliner?’ She was, like, ‘I didn’t carry eyeliner, Mother, what are you talkin’ about?’ It’s, like, ‘Okay, yeah.’ I imply, what eyeliner? I imply, who wants eyeliner? Simply Cannes! I imply, it’s simply candy, simply the innocence. She’s simply along with her dad. It’s not about the rest.”

The Erin Brockovich actress not solely is fiercely protecting of her kids, but in addition of her relationship.

“They’re proud to have stayed married so lengthy and to nonetheless be greatest associates,” a supply completely instructed Us Weekly in November 2019. “Julia and Danny help one another and need the very best. They’ve a deep love that retains rising.”

Roberts even subtly featured a sartorial tribute to her brood throughout final month’s London premiere of Ticket to Paradise. Her black robe included elaborations denoting her wedding ceremony 12 months and youngsters’s birthdates on the prepare. A stitched coronary heart additionally enclosed Hazel, Phinnaeus and Henry’s initials.