Sandra Bullock posted her first throwback snap of her 13-year-old daughter Laila and 16-year-old son Louis on her lap in honor of Mother's Day, just one month after joining Instagram. The 61-year-old single mother adopted her two children in 2010 and 2015, respectively, and has made a conscious choice to hide their faces in public because that is 'what they have chosen.'
Bullock on Parenting and Career Hiatus
'I'm not going to sacrifice my children's... my time with my kids,' Bullock said at the CNBC Changemakers Summit on April 16 about her four-year career hiatus. 'They'd be happy if I was gone. I would not. It's true. And I do not do my best work if my children are struggling or if they need something and I can't facilitate it. I'm raising my children, not anybody else.'
Family Tributes
The Oscar winner shared a snap of herself embracing her late German grandmother, whom she thanked for 'teaching' her and apologized for being 'such a brat.' Bullock also posted a childhood photo of herself and her younger sister Gesine Bullock-Prado with their late German mother Helga Meyer Bullock in snowy Europe.
'To all the mamas, No matter how you came to be, Happy Mother's Day,' the Virginia-born beauty wrote to her 5.5 million followers. 'We are all bound by this honor of a lifetime.' Bullock's 56-year-old sibling commented: 'Love this so much. Happy Mother's Day. They are so proud.'
More Throwbacks and Celebrity Reactions
Gesine, a pastry chef, also posted an Instagram throwback of their opera-singing matriarch, and the Fortis Films founder commented: 'I see so much of you in her.' The Bullock sisters' father John Wilson Bullock died at age 93 in 2018, while Helga passed away at age 58 in 2000. The Golden Globe winner also gave a shout out to 'all the fur mamas out there' in a cute snap of herself being sat upon by her two rescue poodles.
Emily in Paris actress Lily Collins, who co-starred with Bullock in The Blind Side (2009), thanked her for being her 'first onscreen mama' and commented: 'Forever grateful for you!' 'Sandy why are you making me cry?' Running Point co-creator Mindy Kaling asked in the comments section. 'It's 7:30.' Jay Kelly actress Isla Fisher posted two red heart emojis and wrote: 'Happy Mother's Day!' And Your Friends & Neighbors star Olivia Munn commented: 'To love and be loved…'
Upcoming Projects
Bullock and Nicole Kidman executive produced and reprised their roles as the witchy Owens sisters in Susanne Bier's long-awaited sequel Practical Magic 2, which hits US/UK theaters on September 11. 'My daughter asked me - she's fire, she's going to run some country at some point - "Why is it that men are warlocks and women are witches?"' the Miss Congeniality alum said. 'And I went, I don't know. And then I went, yes, I do know. Let me take you back to the history of why women had covens, why we had to protect each other. I said, you know how everyone makes fun of women, oh, they go to the bathroom in packs? I go, do you know why that is? I said, because, back in the day, women had no bathrooms. Men wanted to kill them the minute they were by themselves. They went out in packs to protect each other.'
The Warner Bros. Pictures flick, set 25 years after the original film, also features Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Joey King, Lee Pace, Maisie Williams, Xolo Maridueña, and Solly McLeod. Griffin Dunne's 1998 film Practical Magic, based on Alice Hoffman's 1995 novel, was loathed by critics and loved by audiences despite only earning $68.3 million back from its $75 million budget at the box office.
On March 3, Deadline reported that Bullock is set to produce and star in a new movie from The Lost City writer Dana Fox for Sony Pictures. The two-time Actor Award winner will also reportedly reunite with her Speed and The Lake House leading man Keanu Reeves for an untitled romantic thriller film penned by Noah Oppenheim, which was in development at Amazon MGM Studios last year.
