Sarah Snook experienced 'dampening' of ambition after becoming a mom
Succession star Sarah Snook has revealed she experienced a "dampening" of her ambition after becoming a first-time mom - explaining her priorities "shifted" and she found it "very confronting".
Sarah Snook experienced a "dampening" of her ambition after becoming a first-time mom.
The 38-year-old Succession star welcomed a daughter in 2023 with her comedian husband Dave Lawson and she's now revealed her priorities "shifted" and she found it "very confronting" but she's determined to be "present" while her little girl is growing up.
Sarah told Stylist magazine: "I’ve always wanted to be a parent. I think the thing that surprised me the most is I’m a fairly ambitious person in terms of career – I think you have to be in some ways, to withstand rejection and the vicissitudes of this acting life – but I’ve been struck not by the loss of ambition but the dampening and reprioritising of ambition.
"[Getting rid of] that idea of: I have to achieve this by this age. Maybe I will, maybe I won’t, but in other great news, I’ll be able to be here for my daughter.
"So maybe that part can wait and I’ll deal with being present for her, which is what I want. Your priorities shift and change, and that can be very confronting."
Sarah went on to give credit to her husband - who also has a son from a previous relationship - for taking on the bulk of parenting duties during the first few years of their daughter's life because the actress was so busy with work.
She said: "He’s a very present father and often has done the primary parenting for us in the last two years ...
"I’ve been fairly lucky in that my husband was a single parent with his son, so they co-parented, and I think that put him into a different kind of routine of just getting s*** done."
She added of the sharing of household chores: "There are some things in our household I know that I never do: I don’t do the rubbish but I know it gets done, and the washing he does a lot faster than me.
"But the toilet paper: I always buy that. I think the main thing we’ve worked on is, for me particularly, just to say: 'I’m not going to do it. It will get done; it doesn’t have to be on my timeline.'
"Don’t be the expert. Rather than picking it up and adding to my own plate, it’ll get done."
