“I don’t identify as a celebrity. I think I’m a public person, but I don’t ever go around calling myself a celeb,” explained Christy Carlson Romano. “I think that mom groups are really important to people when they first have their baby.”
She continued, “I think it aligns you with a certain kind of tribe to help you get through postpartum hormones and stuff like that. I think it’s really great, [and] that’s why mommy-and-me classes exist.”
Carlson Romano, however, pointed out that the circles do start to get “a little trickier” as the kids age out of the infant phase.
“You can have friends[hips] with the moms, but if the kids don’t get along, sometimes you end up cycling out of those friendships,” Carlson Romano explained. “That kinda sucks, but in the end, if you can make time for the people that matter to you, they should be giving back to you as much as you’re putting out. If that dynamic shifts, then just find another group of friends.”
Carlson Romano further stressed that mom groups aren’t “supposed to be dramatic.”
“But, I get it,” she added. “Sometimes it gets a little crazy — and then you write an article about it.”