Actress Drew Barrymore’s daughters won’t find any wrapped presents under the Christmas tree this year. The daytime talk show host opened up about why she doesn’t plan to give her two daughters Frankie, 8, and Olive, 10, who she shares with ex Will Kopelman, toys or any other present for Christmas, in a recent interview.
Rather than a toy that they might lose interest in within a few days or weeks, Barrymore said that she preferred to give her children new experiences and memories that they can keep for a lifetime, during an interview that was published Thursday with entertainment Tonight’s Nischelle Turner.
The 47-year-old actress said, “I always take them on a trip every Christmas. I don’t get them presents, which I think at their ages they don’t love, but I say, ‘I think we’ll remember the place and the photos and the experience and that’s what I want to give you.’”
It’s all about making the Christmas holiday with memories that they could share as a family, as the “50 First Dates” alum went on to say that it wasn’t really about not ever buying things for the kids.
She said, “They get plenty of things throughout the year, so I’m not like some weird, strict, cold mom who’s like, ‘You don’t get any gifts!, I just feel like a better gift would be a life memory. I’d rather invest [in that than in] a doll house or something. It all evens out and it’s fine.”
Barrymore went on to explain that she did give the girls presents for one Christmas during the pandemic and was unable to travel. And Barrymore totally went for the flow and bucked the holiday tradition. She explained how she tries to keep a certain perspective when it comes to keeping and bending holiday traditions.
“[I try] to remember that one holiday won’t be probably the same as one 10 years from now, that your life can dramatically change, and new people and new traditions can come into it. I like looking at the holidays through a comedic, realistic lens of, we’re gonna have a lot of different holiday stories. What one do you want to keep going and build as a tradition? Rather than, ‘This is my tradition and I’m stuck in it,” she added.
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