Sara Haines.Photo:Kyle Bice/Disney via Getty
Kyle Bice/Disney via Getty
Sara Hainesand husbandMax Shifrindidn’t waste time starting a family after they wed in 2014, an escalated timeline she said she was driving.
“I always wanted babies. Sadly, women carry an inner biological clock. I was so worried that these eggs were scrambled ‘cause I was older,” Haines told podcast host andThe View’s executive producer Brian Teta.
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Max Shifrin and Sara Haines attend the world premiere of ‘Nobody’s Fool’ on Oct. 28, 2018 in New York, New York.Roy Rochlin/Getty
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Shifrin, 40, wasn’t necessarily on the same page, Haines recalled.
“Max thought he’d be single for another decade, he’s five years younger than me, so it definitely was not his timeline,” she explained. “But I said, ‘If we know we want to be together and we both want kids eventually, I don’t haveeventuallyon my side so let’s go.’”
In fact, the difference of opinion caused strife for the pair at first. “Some of our struggles in early marriage, Max is like, ‘I wonder how much more settled we would have felt if we had a couple of years to just finally just be together,' " Haines recounted. “And I’m like, ‘These are privileges we do not have.’ I was 37 and it was like, ‘Tick tock.’”
“I went from ‘If I got pregnant it was an after-school special or an April Fool’s joke’ to ‘Please have babies!’ ‘But mom, I’m single.’ " said Haines. “So the pressure was so severe that we barely got to get married before my parents were like, ‘Procreate! Procreate!’”
Haines often shares glimpses into her life as mom on her Instagram, posting pictures and videos of sweet family moments captured on at home, during holidays and on vacations.
in 2020, she explained to her followers that shefeels like her family is completewith three little ones. “I would love 10 more!!!! But 3 is all I can handle while being my best version for each of them ❤️❤️❤️,” she wrote on her Instagram Story.
She later lamented about “guilt' she feels as a working mom being away from her kids sometimes. “I have my days where I am unstoppable and so on it. And then the next, I feel overwhelmed,” she said. “Just doing my best like everyone else.”
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source: people.com
