Anna Faris was on Chelsea Handler’s podcast, because everyone has a podcast now (raises hand). Chelsea was on Anna’s podcast about two years ago, incidentally. Anna is getting the most headlines for talking about her divorce from Chris Pratt, how she went wild when she was single from her first husband and how she and Chris co-parent their son, Jack, nine. Both Anna and Chris have since remarried. Some of what she said rang true for me, particularly about how divorce is painful regardless, and I wanted to talk about it. Yahoo! wrote up some of her quotes.

“Being a stepmom… I’m still learning. I really am,” [Anna] explained of co-parenting her new husband Michael Barrett’s two children, which he has from a previous relationship. “I felt at first I wanted to be kinda like this wild, new, reckless person in their lives, because I was also going through a divorce.”

Faris married cinematographer Barrett in 2021, after meeting him on the film Overboard.

Previously, she was married to Chris Pratt, before they divorced In October 2018. She and Pratt share a son, Jack, 9. Before Pratt, she was married to actor Ben Indra until their divorce in 2008.

When reflecting about how her separation from Indra changed her perspective on life, Faris acknowledged, “there is this kind of shift that happens” post-divorce.

“It hit hard the first time,” she explained. “I turned into somebody I didn’t recognize. Like, I was always the kinda person that had my fridge filled — and I hosted a lot of dinners. That was back when I had friends. But then [post-divorce] I found myself in this apartment with just beer and mustard in the fridge, and I was going out all the time. I had no one to text or call to say, ‘Hey, can I do this?’ It was incredibly liberating, and I reverted back to, like, when I was 17 years old…”

Following her second divorce, however, Faris says “it’s been easier” to accept love, though adds, “I still kinda struggle with it.”

While Faris is still learning the ups and downs of being a stepparent, she’s also been open about the realities of coparenting with Pratt. Earlier this year, on her podcast Unqualified, she spoke openly about the difficulties.

“Chris and I work really hard [to coparent] because we have Jack,” she said. “That is sort of the long game idea and making sure Jack is really happy, which makes us really happy. We have sort of the luxury of circumstance. You know, we are both in other loving relationships, but it’s like, how do you not, in general, sink into a place of bitterness?”

Although she admits that raising a child with her ex has its challenges, at the end of the day, she wishes everyone the best.

“I do want to reiterate though, that I f**king acknowledge, we all do, everyone acknowledges, that there’s bitterness and pain with all breakups, and that hopefully makes us more human,” she explained. “But the long game, and it’s just the worst being the bigger person. It just is. It f**king sucks! Until then, what [matters most] is that everyone’s happy.”

[From Yahoo!]

I like how she admitted that it’s human to have pain with divorce. I wanted out of my marriage but it was still hard to split from my son’s dad. We tried to be amicable and that ultimately worked well. The celebrities doing “conscious uncoupling” helped. I’m sure it was contentious behind the scenes in those high profile divorces, but celebrities are influencers and I like that friendly divorces became trendy. Unlike Anna’s situation, it wasn’t about both of us being coupled up again, it took us each a long time for that, it was about doing what was best for our son. It still sucked.

In Anna’s case I really wonder if Chris Pratt was sh-tty to her though. He seems like a fundie control freak. Whatever happened they moved past it and seem happy for each other, so good for them.

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