Parenting. Not everyone can do it. And if you ask Seth Rogen himself, he says it’s not for him. The actor does not want children and don’t worry, he is not afraid to explain why he and his wife of almost 10 years, Lauren Miller, are very happy with their decision not to have kids.
In a recent interview with Howard Stern, who has three kids, Rogen talked about why he is glad he doesn’t have kids. As an actor, he has been in movies like “Knocked Up” and “Neighbors.”
I wouldn’t be able to do all this work that I like,
Rogen said on The Howard Stern Show.
People are always like — it’s something I think I was uncomfortable answering this before — but they were like, ‘How do you do so much?’ The answer is I don’t have kids. … I have nothing else to do.
Stern told Rogen that to be a parent,
You can’t be narcissistic, you have to give yourself over to parenting, and they’ve gotta become the priority.
Rogen’s response?
Yeah, like, I don’t want that. That does not sound fun to me. And why? There’s enough kids out there.
Rogen told Stern that his wife, who has been in funny movies like “Superbad” and “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” “wants kids even less than I do.”
He added,
I could probably be talked into it. She’s like ‘no.’
So what is it about being a parent that makes them both say “no thank you” so strongly? One thing is that they are very happy with their lives as they are right now.
I don’t know anyone who gets as much happiness out of their kids as we get out of our non-kids,
he said.
Like, we’re f**king psyched all the time! We’re laying in bed on Saturday mornings smoking weed, like watching movies naked. If we had kids, we could not be f**king doing this.
He is right. If you’re going to have kids, you better really want them. so much that you’re prepared for them to consume all of your thoughts and you can’t imagine your life without them so much. Otherwise? Don’t do it.
Rogen has said over and over that he is happy not to be a dad. In April 2020, a month after the pandemic started, he told Jimmy Kimmel via Zoom that not having kids made it easy for him and his wife to stay at home.
I will be laying alone on my death bed, having not talked to anyone for, like, 15 years, and I’ll be like ‘it was worth it.’
A lot of parents couldn’t imagine life without their kids, but Rogen doesn’t want to live with his. I think everything works out in the end. The world keeps going around.
