Julie Bowen Says Her 3 Teenage Kids Have ‘Stupid Haircuts’

Followers of Trendy Household’s Julie Bowen know by now that she approaches the whole lot in her life with humor. The identical is the case with parenting her three sons, Oliver and twins John and Gustave.

Throughout an look on Right now With Hoda & Jenna on Thursday, September 12, the Hysteria! actress opened up about raising her teenagers and seeing how their personalities have developed and altered in recent times.

“All of them have the silly haircuts. Bless you, I really like you, my youngsters,” Julie, 54, instructed Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager. “The haircuts are so dumb.”

Julie, who shares Oliver, 17, and John and Gustave, 15, with ex-husband Scott Phillips, was requested by the cohosts to explain her children’ haircuts. “Properly, there’s just like the flohawk, after which there’s just like the jiffy pop and the alpaca,” she stated whereas gesturing along with her palms.

“I really like that you just named all of them,” Jenna, 42, stated by way of laughter, to which Julie replied, “I imply how do you retain them straight.”

Julie stated that as a result of she has been engaged on the East Coast, she has largely been speaking along with her boys, who reside in Los Angeles, through Snapchat. She mocked a few of the poses that her sons do in footage.

It wasn’t the primary time she talked about how her sons steadily use the photograph sharing app.

“I ask my children, ‘Who acquired in hassle at school at this time?’” she instructed TODAY.com in November 2023. “I do it on a regular basis. That’s been my entry level. However I’m dying to ask, ‘Who do you want? Who’re you snapping with’ [on Snapchat]?”

“However you possibly can’t freak out after you’ve requested the query,” she added. “Let’s normalize it, as a result of all children get in hassle sooner or later.”

The Trendy Household alum additionally opened up in regards to the idea of “ok” parenting.

“I want this was round after I began having children and felt like I needed to do the whole lot completely,” Julie, who will probably be starring within the upcoming movie Completely happy Gilmore 2, instructed the outlet. “However you already know what? Ok is sweet sufficient. When you saved your child alive, fed and wholesome, these are enormous wins! We don’t give ourselves sufficient credit score for that. As an alternative it’s, ‘You didn’t get an A+?’ or ‘Why are you dressed like a loopy individual?’”

Julie admitted that her sister helped her see a special perspective relating to elevating her teenagers.

“I was depressing about how egocentric youngsters may be,” she revealed. “They’ve last-minute plans that change and I’m like, ‘How do you assume you’re getting there?’, ‘Who’s paying for that?’ and ‘How is that this magically taking place?’ I’m simply the ATM or Uber driver?”

“I believe it was my sister who stated, ‘It sounds such as you’re anticipating your children to truly meet your emotional wants,’” Julie added. “I simply needed acknowledgement that I used to be human! However children don’t actually see mother and father as human. They could every so often, however keep in mind that it’s in all probability an accident.”