Glamour: Hello! What do you feel guilty about right now?
Jessel Taank: Oh, man. Where do I start? I think as moms, we, and this is such a generalization, but we never feel like we’re doing enough. The boys just started kindergarten, but it came at a time when everything was happening at once. Fashion Week started, RHONY premiered, and the kids started kindergarten. So I actually haven’t many chances to drop them off at school, because I’m just loaded with meetings in the morning. And I feel so guilty, so much so that I requested an emergency Zoom with their teachers yesterday because I felt like they were judging me for not being a good mother and not being present for drop-off.
School drop-off is like a social gathering of everybody, so I feel like I haven’t socialized with any of the new moms. I definitely haven’t given enough time to the teachers. And I want to see the kids in their environment at school, and I haven’t been there.
How has motherhood changed the way you get dressed?
Oh, this is so painful to answer. I used to be able to allocate 1 hour, 90 minutes, to just perusing my closet. I would take my time, I would maybe have a drink, put some music on, and it used to be a whole experience of putting a look together. Now I barely can take a shower. I’m all about putting a baseball cap and some sunglasses on, throwing on a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt, and looking like I am a Russian spy because I don’t want anyone to recognize me at any given time. You just don’t have the luxury of actually putting yourself together.
So it’s changed dramatically, and they’re so active, especially in the mornings. It was once a very therapeutic, calming experience, and now it’s like I’ve got one twin on one leg, another one on the other leg. They’re screaming. I’m trying to get them ready, trying to get myself ready. There’s Bluey in the background. There is nothing calming about this experience anymore.
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