Sandra Bullock is a devoted mom to her kids Louis, 13, and Laila, 11, with her partner Bryan Randall, to the point that she made a conscious decision to step away from acting to be with them.
The actress has made it known that she prefers to keep her children and private life out of the spotlight, although it sometimes has not gone to plan.
In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning back in January, Sandra discussed the implications of having an infant son during one of the most turbulent moments of her personal life, that being her messy divorce from ex-husband Jesse James.
After several allegations of affairs came to light, the Monster Garage host and Sandra filed for divorce in 2010, mere weeks after her win for Best Actress at the Academy Awards for her performance in The Blind Side.
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At the time, the star was caring for her newly adopted son Louis, and while the divorce proved to be tough, protecting her son from it was tougher.
"So much had happened," she told Tracy Smith. "How do you process grief and not hurt your child in the process?
"It's a newborn, they take on everything you're feeling. So my obligation was to him and not tainting the first year of his life with my grief."
The 58-year-old stated that she was much happier with where her life is now, saying that on a scale of 1-10, she'd rate it a "9.2. Because the other shoe will drop."
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In 2022, the Oscar-winner announced her intention to semi-retire from acting to spend more time with her family and raise her children.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that June, she stated: "Work has always been steady for me, and I've been so lucky," she said. "I realized it possibly was becoming my crutch. It was like opening up a fridge all the time and looking for something that was never in the fridge.
"I said to myself, 'Stop looking for it here because it doesn't exist here. You already have it; establish it, find it and be OK not having work to validate you.'"
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