Seth Rogen shuts down backlash over his decision to not have children

At 42 years old, Seth Rogen could not beryllium much contented with his life. 

In a caller interview, the actor and comedian opened up astir not having children with his woman of 13 years, Lauren Miller, and explained the crushed down their decision. 

"People truly had beardown takes connected it, being like, 'F--- this f---ing guy. Who the f--- does helium deliberation helium is not to person kids?' Well, if you hatred maine that much, wherefore bash you privation much of me?" Rogen, who is presently promoting his caller Apple TV+ bid "The Studio," told Esquire. "You should lone person kids if you truly privation kids, and we conscionable don’t truly privation kids. Time kept going by and the infinitesimal wherever we were similar ‘Let’s bash it!’ conscionable kept not happening."

SETH ROGEN CLAIMS HE'S MORE SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE HE DID NOT HAVE KIDS: 'HONESTLY, THANK GOD'

Seth Rogen has been unfastened astir his determination to not person children. (Getty Images)

"I look astatine my friends with kids, and honestly I consciousness similar immoderate of them are incredibly blessed and fulfilled, and immoderate of them look similar possibly they privation they had enactment a small much thought into it. I conscionable didn’t privation to beryllium 1 of those people," helium continued. 

With this determination has travel much criticism, Rogen admitted. 

"The astir disturbing remark that I saw a batch of was ‘Who’s going to instrumentality attraction of you erstwhile you’re old?’ Which to maine is precise telling. Is that wherefore you’re having kids? Because I person 2 things to say: One, that’s precise selfish to make a quality truthful idiosyncratic tin instrumentality attraction of you. And two, conscionable due to the fact that you person a kid, I hatred to interruption it to you, that doesn’t mean they’re going to bash that."

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Seth Rogen and wife, Lauren Miller, joined successful 2011. (Rick Kern/Getty Images for Hilarity for Charity)

This isn't the archetypal clip the filmmaker and businessman has disclosed his reasons for not wanting to go a dad. 

"I bash not [have kids]. That has helped maine win arsenic well, definitely" Rogen said during an interrogation connected "The Diary of a CEO" podcast successful 2023. "There’s a full immense happening I’m not doing, which is raising children. I’ve been around, obviously, a batch of children, I’m not ignorant to what it’s like… everyone I cognize has kids… immoderate of my friends person had kids for decades," helium quipped.

The filmmaker is presently promoting his caller Apple TV+ bid "The Studio." (Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)

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"Some radical privation kids, immoderate radical don’t privation kids. Honestly, you conscionable are told, ‘You spell done life, you get married, you person kids.’ That’s what happens… maine and my wife, neither of america were similar that. Honestly, convey God we don’t person children, we get to bash immoderate we want," helium continued.

"We are smarter than we’ve ever been, we recognize ourselves much than we ever have, we person the capableness to execute a level of enactment and a level of connection and attraction for 1 another, and a manner we tin unrecorded with 1 another, that we’ve ne'er been capable to unrecorded before," helium concluded. 

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