Sydney Sweeney isn’t pregnant yet (that I know of), but she’s already concerned about the stigma society and Hollywood puts on young mothers. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the White Lotus and Euphoria actor, 24, said she’d like to start a family early, but she’s worried about the career impact.
“I want to have a family, I’ve always wanted to be a young mom, and I’m worried about how this industry puts stigmas on young women who have children and looks at them in a different light,” Sweeney explained. “I was worried that, if I don’t work, there is no money and no support for kids I would have.”
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As a successful movie and television star, there’s no doubt that Sweeney has more resources at her disposal than most. But earlier in the interview, she explains that her family’s financial insecurity while she was a teenager, which led to her parents’ divorce, may have made her more conscious of the economic burden of having a family.
“We lived in one room. My mom and I shared a bed and my dad and little brother shared a couch,” Sweeney said. “I thought that if I made enough money, I’d be able to buy my parents’ house back and that I’d be able to put my parents back together. But when I turned 18, I only had $800 to my name. My parents weren’t back together and there was nothing I could do to help.”
Sweeney is rumored to be engaged to boyfriend Jonathan Davino, per People, though she never comments publicly on the details of her public life.
But if Sydney Sweeney did decided to start having kids young, she wouldn’t be alone in Hollywood. Adele, for instance, had her son Angelo in 2012 when she was just 24, per Nylon. Sophie Turner of Game of Thrones fame was also 24 when she had her first child, and just welcomed her second kid at age 26.
