While the majority of children are potty trained when they’re toddlers, it seems as though Kirsten Bell’s 5-year-old daughter isn’t quite there yet.
On her podcast, Mansplaining with Kristen Bell, she revealed how her daughter is still wearing nappies.
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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard have a relationship like no other Hollywood couple.
The actors are both hilarious, beautiful people who are over-the-moon in love with each other.
But the best thing about their relationship is that they’re upfront about the struggles they’ve faced and the fact that marriage is hard work.
Neither of them professes to be perfect, and while their love is definitely worthy of envy, it’s not because it’s always rainbows and butterflies in the Bell-Shepard household.
It’s because they trust each other and care for each other enough to work out their issues when they arise.
Kristen Bell appeared on Harry, where she got real about an old bad habit that Shepard wouldn’t tolerate, and the way she talks about it is seriously mature.
They can’t help themselves.
The couple got married in 2013, though they’d already been together for many years before their marriage.
In an interview with Playboy, Shepard said, “Kristen’s a good girl. She grew up very Christian, went straight to college, did great in school, and started work immediately. She’s charitable and philanthropic and rescues dogs.”
“So when we met, our backgrounds were opposites. All the things I’d done were terrifying to her, and she had a hard time believing I would ever be able to stay married and monogamous and a father and all those things,” said said.
All couples face challenges…
And it’s extremely refreshing and reassuring to learn that couples we all admire go through the same stuff we do.
In an appearance on Harry, Kristen Bell got real about those fights in the first year or so of her relationship with Shepard.
While she and Shepard have both been honest about their struggles before, it’s not every day we hear this kind of candidness from a celebrity couple.
“When we first met, we fell madly in love, and I love the dramatic exit,” Bell said.
“We’d get in a fight because we’d fight a lot, and I’d yell something and then slam the bedroom door, then I’d slam the front door, then I’d get in my car and then I’d skid out the driveway and I would sit around the corner in my car and it felt so good and I realized how incredibly toxic it was only after he pointed it out.”
She added: “Three months into our relationship, he was like, ‘You can’t leave anymore during fights. I’m not going to do that.’ I was like, ‘What?’ He’s like you can’t do that, I’m not going to have a relationship — he has a very high standard and a strong code of ethics. He was like, ‘No, I have more respect for myself — I love you — but I’m not going to do that my whole life.'”
How wonderful is it to hear that even the couple with the most perfect, adorable relationship, fought like crazy and had to learn how to communicate productively with each other?
Relationships are hard. Marriage is hard.
It’s not always singing “Africa” in Africa or making your wife lose her mind over an adorable animal. It is sometimes those things. But not always.
That is what relationships are all about, after all.
The ability to be self-reflective and adaptable is essential, not only to help build a healthy relationship but also to be a good person.
They’ve always been honest about their relationship — the good, the bad, the ugly, and everything in between.
More recently, Bell has opened up about her kids.
On her podcast Mansplaining with Kristen Bell, she revealed that her 5-year-old daughter, Delta, is still wearing a nappy.
“Every kid is so different,” Bell said.
The forty-two-year-old mom also said that her eldest daughter, Lincoln, got the gist of using the toilet before the age of 2.
“My oldest daughter at 21 months, we merely suggested that she use the toilet in the other room and she never wore another diaper beyond that,” she said.
She added: “We were lying in bed giggling about this, my husband and I, like, ‘Why does everyone make a big deal out of this potty training?
“It’s so easy. Just tell the kid to use the toilet.'”
Users on social media had mixed opinions on the matter, and some took to Twitter to slam the mom.
“NO Kristen Bell it is NOT okay, literally ANY episode of Supernanny will tell you that’s way too old for nappies,” said one user.
“Kristen Bell’s 5 year old daughter still wears nappies… wtf,” added a second.
However, others were quick to defend the mother, agreeing to her earlier statement that “every kid is so different.”
“My brother was still in diapers at 5, and that was all day!” one person argued.
“My mum used to say it was because ‘he keeps waving his little pecker around and p***ing everywhere!’ omg the laughs we had!
“He’s now fifty-five, married, 2 children, 3 grandchildren, so many nieces, nephews, and no nappies!” they said.
What do you think?