Originally appeared on E! Online.
Jennifer Lawrence found a silver lining in the chaos.
Following her hectic childhood, “The Hunger Games” star shared how she’s needed to adapt since marrying husband Cooke Maroney, with whom she shares son Cy, 3, and a second baby born in 2025.
“I married somebody who is the opposite of me,” Lawrence said on the Jan. 12 episode of “SmartLess.” “He is so organized. He’s an anchor.”
“Everything is ordered,” the 35-year-old continued. “I have to keep the closet doors closed, and I have my little jobs that I work really hard to do.”
For Lawrence, keeping a very specific schedule was difficult, although she knew it needed to be done after having kids.
“I get it now, I get it,” Lawrence said. “[The kids are] on a very strict schedule. You know, it’s like breakfast: 7:30.”
“He’s good at keeping it,” she said of her husband. “But we’ve learned, to keep our marriage alive, I have a 15 minute wiggle room.”
READ Jennifer Lawrence shares why she gave up her dog after welcoming kids
As host Jason Bateman put it, “You can’t be held to the precise times, otherwise the marriage is going to suffer.”
Indeed, Lawrence explained it’s hard for her to keep those tight schedules, especially as someone with ADD, saying, “I think I should go to, like, occupational therapy for that.”
While having her day all mapped out is one part of her life that has changed for the Oscar winner since becoming a mom, she’s previously shared other ways motherhood has affected her day-to-day.
“When I had my first child, I felt completely connected to my baby,” she told W Magazine in November. “But I also realized the world wasn’t designed around that relationship.”
She added, “Suddenly, you’re like, ‘Wait, how am I supposed to go back to work? Get in a car and drive away? Get on an airplane and fly away from my baby? Like, what are you talking about?’ Everything looks different after that.”
Luckily, the “Die My Love” actress was able to find others to help her navigate the journey.
“As a mom, especially when I was a new, first-time mom, my community and having a mom community was so vital,” she shared with E! News in November. “Having a community is so, so important and just being able to check in with other women, like, ‘Is this normal?'”
“Even just meeting moms from the park,” Lawrence noted, “or mommy-and-me class or eventually meeting other parents in my son’s school.”
Jennifer Lawrence just revealed she may not be a dog person after all. At a Q&A at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, a seemingly innocent question threw the “Die My Love” actress for a loop. Initially “uncomfortable” answering whether she was a dog or cat person, the 35-year-old mother of two went on to explain that the family’s Chihuahua, Pippi, who was adopted in 2017, is now living with the actress’ parents.
