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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Meghan De Maria

Amanda Seyfried: "Once I Popped Out a Baby, I Was Just Playing Mothers"

Amanda Seyfried with slight smirk.

If there's one thing Hollywood is sure to do, it's cast women over a certain age in motherly roles. (Never forget Amy Poehler and Rachel McAdams playing a mother and daughter in Mean Girls, despite being just seven years apart IRL.) And it's not only an age thing. According to Amanda Seyfriend, once she became a mom, Hollywood stopped seeing her as anything else.

"It seems like once I popped out a baby, I was just playing mothers, and that's Hollywood for you," Seyfried said at the Berlin Film Festival (via Variety). "But I do think that the roles have become way richer and definitely challenging in ways that I didn’t have earlier in my career."

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