Drew Barrymore has already lived an incredible life at the young age of 40. While the actress has found happiness now, she struggled for much of her early life and famously entered rehab when she was barely a teenager. Now the mother of two has said that she's uneasy about letting her daughter's go into the acting profession.
Barrymore said she would not discourage her daughters, Olive, 3, and Frankie, 18 months, from acting, but she is against them starting at a young age.
"Not until they're 18," the actress told People. "I know it sounds crazy, but I would by no means poo-poo a thing I love so much!"
Barrymore started her own acting career at the incredibly young age of 7 when she starred in Steven Spielberg's "E.T. the Extra Terrestrial," according to Entertainment Weekly. Her early fame led her down a rocky path filled with drugs and alcohol, and she just wants to make sure her children have a normal childhood first.
"People ask in a weird way, 'Would you let them be actors?!' I'm like, 'What are you insinuating, that acting is so horrible?' What is it that you are saying?'" said Barrymore. "It's wonderful, of course, I would encourage it! They just have to be kids."
The actress also discussed her struggle with postpartum depression after the birth of her second child, as HNGN previously reported.
"I didn't have postpartum the first time so I didn't understand it because I was like, 'I feel great!'" the actress told People. "The second time, I was like, 'Oh, whoa, I see what people talk about now. I understand. It's a different type of overwhelming with the second. I really got under the cloud."
