"So to have this be Georgia's breakdown season, I was having a hard time.”
Ilana Glazer is opening up about being a mother to her 4-year-old daughter.
The 38-year-old “Broad City” alum, who made her Broadway debut in April, shares one daughter, born in 2021, with her husband David Rooklin — whom she tied the knot with in 2017, per People.
In an interview with Parents.com, published June 9, she explained why she doesn’t consider herself a “chill mom.”
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“When I have expectations of how a trip is supposed to go, how bedtime is supposed to go, how a nap is supposed to go,” she said of the many ways she allows her expectations to get in her way of reality.
She goes on to admit that she has since learned to “slow down” and “be gentle” with herself, acknowledging the unpredictability that comes with parenthood.
“I was just texting my husband because the afternoon didn’t go as planned. When you have kids, they're not a plan to be executed,” she quipped.
“They're little magical human beings who need support,” she added.
According to Cosmopolitan, Glazer and Rooklin, a co-founder of Redesign Science, met at New York City’s Washington Square Park in 2012 and started dating shortly after.
The pair secretly tied the knot in a private City Hall ceremony in February 2017, per Metro.
“My husband has beautiful instincts to make space for our daughter to have whatever process she's having,” Glazer said of Rooklin in her interview with Parents.com.
She goes on to discuss how her parenting style differs from her husband’s.
“It's so much more delightful than making my kid my little employee, whose job it is to do what I need her to do,” she said of her parenting style.
“I like to plan for things and produce, so it’s been a gift to see our combined parenting unfold,” she added. “It’s shown me how much I’ve been holding on to that I need to let go of.”
Glazer describes being a mother as ‘primal’
When asked how parenting has changed her career, Glazer said it hasn’t had much of an effect at all.
She described her career as being very functional and her art being driven from a place of need, but when it comes to parenting, she described it as more of a “pre-need.”
“It's just primal,” she explained. “Not necessarily the conscious ways we raise our kids but the instinct to have a kid.”
“Those moments with my daughter reward my heart in a way that’s different from my career and art,” she said.
The comedian was also asked what her hopes are for her daughter as she grows up.
“I want my daughter to make room inside of herself for whatever feelings come up. I want her to gently pay attention to them and, over time, accept them,” she replied.
While she admits that it took “a lot of time and money going to therapy” to master that trait herself, she was pleased to announce that her daughter is getting a head start.
“At 4 years old, she's embodying this in the most beautiful way by naming her feelings,” the comedian revealed. “It's astounding! She’s already 30 years ahead of me.”
Glazer talks about ‘mom guilt’ and feeling rebellious as a mom
Glazer has been open about her parenting journey over the past four years.
In a 2024 interview with The Local Moms Network, Glazer said motherhood has “widened and deepened my reservoir for feeling,” and that it helped her “settle into depicting feelings of loss more accessibly.”
In a December interview with NPR, she explained how becoming a mother made her feel rebellious.
“I don't care about being accepted. I care more about discovering who I am and what I need. I care about that more than crossing a line and being accepted back,” she said.
“Like, as long as I'm focused on fulfilling my needs and the needs of my family and child, then I can be unlikeable,” she added. “I don’t have to fill the supportive role I was hoping to fill before.”
More recently, she fought back against the idea of feeling “mom guilt” because she was spending a lot of time away from her daughter while on Broadway.
“I don't feel guilty. I don't. I feel sad. I'm missing out on a lot of time with her, so I'm sad about that,” Glazer said in an April 10 Instagram post.
“So I've been really embracing feeling sad about missing my little baby girl,” she continued. “It's my job as a parent to feel my sadness and obviously to hold it and not put it on her.”
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So, mom guilt? Nah. Mom sad? Yeah!” she concluded.
