I found
out at 4am, on Facebook of all things, while feeding my son.
It just
made it feel so cheap.
RYAN
GOSLING IS GOING TO HAVE A BABY.
And worst of all, I thought he’d split up with his girlfriend so I wasn’t even a bit prepared for the devastating news. Damn you, Google.
Now. I’m
not a total psycho. I didn’t actually believe that I was going to meet/date/get
married to/have children with The Goslinator.
But he
has been a bit of a constant crush throughout parenthood.
I’d
seen The Notebook like the rest of the female population several years ago.
But it
wasn’t until I rewatched it when four months pregnant with my daughter that I had
massive hormone rush, ugly cried for a good hour after the film had finished
and thought it would be a constructive use of my time to watch the whole back
catalogue of Goslo films.
My
daughter’s early years are somehow interwoven with his silver screen
appearances.
The
first time she took a step was round the same time I watched Drive. I went to the
cinema to watch Only God Forgives after her third set of injections. A friend and
I saw The Place Beyond the Pines when she’d started sleeping through the night.
The
list goes on.
But I
knew this couldn’t go on for forever. Partly because I need to grow up and mainly
because he’s stopped starring in films.
So, it’s
time to man up and get over it.
I have
two children. I’m attempting to write a play when they’re both asleep. I have a
flat that seems to haemorrhage dirt and dust the moment I leave a room. I need
to learn how to cook something other than pasta and pesto before everyone under
our roof gets scurvy.
I don’t
really have time for a Hollywood crush.
But it
suddenly dawned on me that he had been my guilty pleasure. In the same way that,
pre-children, it had been smoking/binge-drinking/dancing in clubs to bad 80s
music.
And
that to balance being a parent with not going nuts, I was going to have to find
another ‘hobby’.
So I’ve
subscribed to Netflix and am going to watch the whole of Orange is the New Black on my own.
It’s no Prisoner Cell Block H but I do feel a bit better.
And if
I ever DO meet The Goslotron, we will now have parenthood in common so it’s not
the end of the world.
Haha I totally know how u feel, I found and was like wth??! I thought theyd aplit too. I'm not a psycho either lol but one of my fave thongs to do is go through the hey girl pins on pinterest and pin to which ever suits my life.
ReplyDeleteAh well, wish them the best of luck ;) x
And fingers crossed that just means they'll be loads of pictures of him with a baby!! x
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