Anna Kendrick has never shied away from candidly discussing her position on having children.

In her 2016 memoir Scrappy Little Nobody, the actor wrote: “I will always feel children aren’t for me.” And after JD Vance made comments about childless cat ladies earlier this year, Kendrick told The Guardian: “I don’t ever think about having kids, so I guess I spend just as little time thinking about weaponising that.”

Now, Kendrick has once again broached the topic, this time during an interview with Flow Space, where she was asked if her feelings on motherhood were still the same. 

“I was thinking recently about a phrase I’ve heard men say about their desire to have children in the future, and it occurred to me: I don’t think I’ve ever heard a woman say that,” Kendrick said. “And the thing they’ll say is, ‘Yeah, maybe one day – a couple of kids running around.’ I don’t think I’ve ever heard a woman say that. Because it paints a certain visual, yes?”

Kendrick describes that ‘certain visual’: “That you come home at the end of your workday, and you put down your proverbial briefcase, and you’re making yourself a cocktail, and a woman in a Laura Ashley dress is out in the yard, and there’s a couple of kids – in white! – running around.” She then rhetorically asks the men: “Um, where are you in that, sir?

“I don’t know, there’s something about that phrase that really starts to rub me the wrong way,” Kendrick continues. “It’s like when I hear husbands say they want to ‘help out’ with the kids. And it’s two working parents! And I always want to kind of say something, and then I’m just like, ‘Well, I’m the childless cat lady. I’m not gonna say shit.’”

Elsewhere in the interview, Kendrick shared how the end of what she has publicly described as an emotionally abusive relationship sent her into psychotherapy, but also helped her to find her voice as an adult woman.

“There was a real, positive outcome from a really terrible situation,” she explains. “I had always felt like a mediocre student. I am often inarticulate and I cannot solve a math problem in my head to save my life! But psychotherapy taught me that when it’s a subject that really matters to me, I can be smart.”

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