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MARCH/APRIL 2019 SPOTLIGHT Continued, from page 8 “Everything is about them being ok, being in school, having what they need, their moments. I need to be there for every single moment that they have. It’s harder for me to leave them than I think it is for them when I leave. I don’t leave that much, and I don’t work that much anyone either…So my pri- orities are my kids, my kids, my kids. My family. My family. That’s it,” she emphasized to Kotb. It wasn’t until Bird Box, a movie that stars Bullock as a pregnant woman fighting to survive during her preg- nancy and then having to figure out how to raise a child while a mysterious condition compels the afflict- ed to take their own lives, that Bullock came to grips with her biggest fear. “Mine is something happening to my kids,” she said to Pollard. “I live in such a fear- ful place. I’m so afraid all the time. I think becoming a mother has made me that much more fearful.” For a while, it scared Bullock that her life didn’t fit the nuclear family mold, according to Pollard. “So- ciety’s hard,” said Bullock during their interview. “Society still, as open-minded as we’ve become, has 10 DENTON COUNTY Living Well Magazine | MARCH/APRIL 2019 Sandra Bullock fleeing a mysterious force decimating the world’s population in the post-apocalyptic thriller Bird Box. these rules that quietly say: ‘This is the way it goes.’ They’re saying: ‘It’s a man and a woman, and then you have a baby, and that’s the family.’ I go: ‘Oh my god, I’m a single parent. With a child. How am I…’ I felt less than. I felt: ‘I’m not the complete package.’ And then I realized…this is the complete package.” However, the negativity and criticism directed toward women in her profession still troubles Bullock. In an in- terview with E! News, the Oscar winner divulged that it’s something she’s cognizant of as she’s trying to teach her children how to treat other people. “I feel like it’s become hunting season in how women are attacked,” she said. “And it’s not because of who we are as peo- Five years after adopting Louis, Bullock adopted daughter Laila. A doting mother to her two young children, most things take a backseat to the 9 and 7 year old, including her high-powered acting career.