Catherine Zeta-Jones on parenting

**moomies** · October 29th, 2005, 12:24 AM

Catherine Zeta-Jones says she's strict about kids' diet; no candy allowed
October 27, 2005

NEW YORK (AP) - Catherine Zeta-Jones has some rules about what her children eat.

"I don't give them kid food," the actress tells Life magazine. "No candy. Almost no juice. When my kids have juice, it's like they're having their first taste of champagne."

Zeta-Jones and her husband, Michael Douglas, have two children, Dylan, 5, and Carys, 2 1/2. "We have a pact that if one of us works, the other doesn't, so the children can have some sense of normalcy," the 36-year-old Wales native says.

She doesn't cook - "I read about cooking" - and she's not good at watching her children scale the jungle gym.

"I'm always afraid they're going to fall off and break their legs, whereas Michael throws them in the air!" she says.

Now that she's a working mother, Zeta-Jones says she no longer worries about whether she's on the best-dressed lists. As for Douglas, "Every time I look down at his feet, he's always got the scabbiest-looking socks. And he's obsessed with this plastic $2 hairbrush. It goes everywhere with him."

Zeta-Jones won an Oscar for her role in 2002's Chicago. Her new film, The Legend of Zorro, also starring Antonio Banderas, opens in theatres Friday.

**SVZ** · October 29th, 2005, 12:26 AM

Good parenting skills....

EXCEPT YOU SMOKED WHILE THAT BABY WAS IN YOUR STOMACH YOU DUMB TART!!!

ugh

but yes I don't agree with fruit juices for kids, that's just an instant rush of sugar.

**Morrisonlver** · October 29th, 2005, 12:31 AM

Christ, let them by kids for crying out loud. Like she takes care of them in the first place. She probably has 5 or 6 nannies for each kid.

**HWBL** · October 29th, 2005, 06:23 AM

Who the hell cares what these celebs think about all these trivial things anyway? Jesus, does she have the same PR company as Madonna? Why does she all of a sudden bother us with all her statements on ANYTHING? Could it possibly be that she has a new movie out, just like the other old hag has a new CD out?