There’s no way around it: child care in the United States is expensive.
For the average working class family, that’s a lot of money to spend each and every week.
For an A-list celebrity, however, that’s essentially chump change.
So, then, all celebrities have 24/7 live-in nannies, right?
Here are some celebs who have totally forgone nannies altogether.
Fischer clarified, “I don’t have any of those things.
Like other working moms, I’m trying to figure out how to balance it all.”
Fischer added that people are sometimes “cynical” and assume she utilizes extra help.
Of course, even if she did decide to use a nanny, that’s her prerogative.
“You have no nanny?
It’s just Mila and you taking care of the baby?”
“We want to be emotionally in touch with her.
Since then, Kutcher and Kunis also went on to have a son,Dimitri.
How did she manage caring for two newborns and then-9-year-old son Rene-Charles?
“I take things day by day.
That’s the secret to me,” she told the magazine.
As they say, it takes a village!
Nevertheless, it’s just the two of them doing all the child-rearing.
He clarified, “And that’s not because I have a nanny or something like that.”
“There is almost no community on Earth as intense as the parent-child online community,” Reynolds toldGQ.
apparel for Macy’s.
You have baby brain,” she joked in an interview withPeople.
It’s very challenging."
She explained that she and her mother work together to take care of the children.
I just like to be very hands-on."
The key to making it all work, she says, is to be organized.
Instead, they split up their parenting duties into shifts.
Though, she didn’t hire a caregiver for the traditional reasons of, well, providing care.
In an interview withRedbook Magazine, Romijn detailed how she and her husband run their household.
“We’re each other’s assistants.
Ironically, Jerry O’Connell actually played a nanny a hunky manny on the showMistresses.
Perhaps his salacious role is why he’s not too keen on hiring a manny for his own children.
He added, “I’m sorry if that’s closed-minded of me.”
It doesn’t much matter anyway, though, as the couple doesn’t have a nanny maleorfemale.
Like many parents, Bialik said she desired to raise her kids herself.
No matter how tired I am, I just do it.”
When does she fit in her beauty regimen?
Mendes has even had to skip out on award shows to stay home with her little ones.
It’s been really interesting to do it all ourselves."
Before having children, she said her priorities were different.
She revealed that after becoming a mom, she realized “how unimportant stuff is.”
She explained that the most important thing is knowing that her kids are healthy.
Although it likely hasn’t always been easy raising kids without any help, Hewitt seems happy.
She shared athrowback photo on Instagramfrom when she just a few months along in her first pregnancy.
That wasn’t the case, however.
Paisley explained toPeoplethat he never wants to lose touch with “working class, everyday people.”
That seems to include raising children.
That said, it’s not an all hands on a deck situation.
Nevertheless, they seem to have remained nanny-less.
“It’s hard.
Between the two of us, we’ve had our hands full.
But we’ve managed to do it without any help,” Morgan revealed toPeople.
He further added, “We have babysitters now and again, but we don’t have nannies.
We wing it, man.”
Surely, many parents can relate to the couple’s “winging it” parenting style.
It’s a night out."
Instead of hiring a nanny, Phillippe says he and Witherspoon cared for them on their own.
