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Parenting is hard and can definitely get in the way of romance but Tia Mowry-Hardrict and her hubby Cory Hardrict have found a way to keep it going, they make sure to calendar sex into their busy parenting schedules.
PEOPLE got first dibs to hear the iHeartRadio Podcast, “What to Expect” with host Heidi Murkoff and the Sister, Sister star as they talked about the Hardrict family home life which includes their daughter Cario Tiahna, 2, and Cree Taylor, 9.
It was Murkoff, author of “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” that started off the scheduled sex conversation, “We had to have sex once a week. That was the rule in our house, because otherwise, we wouldn’t get around to it.”
A routine Mowry-Hardrict says she can relate with. “Heidi, this is the first time where I’m admitting it: We do too,” says Mowry-Hardrict, 42. “And when I was younger and when I would hear that, I’d be like, ‘Why do you have to do that?’ ”
“But like you said, you do — especially with kids and with work and all that,” she adds. “You have to make sure that it’s not neglected in any kind of way.”
The sit down also spoke on other topics, including, Mowry-Hardrict’s “frustrating” and “very hard” diagnosis of endometriosis—a highly inflammatory condition linked to infertility– with her son Cree in 2011. “For years, I had suffered. I was going to my regular doctor, which was a family practitioner, and I would constantly tell her about my symptoms,” recalls the Tia Mowry’s Quick Fix host. “I almost felt like I was telling her about my symptoms every time I would be on my period, but the weirdest thing was it was like she wasn’t taking my symptoms very seriously.”
The actress took her health into her own hands, saying she “continued to fight” and eventually went under the knife so that doctors could “properly diagnosis” her.
“You don’t want to wait until something bad happens or something scary happens in order for you to start [taking] precautions,” Mowry-Hardrict continues of how she changed her diet and lifestyle for the better after being diagnosed. “Just taking care of yourself.”
For those that haven’t reached parenthood yet, Mowry-Hardrict shared a piece of beneficial advice that a woman told her, ‘Tia, make sure you do everything that you want to do. Even when it comes to having fun,’ ” she says. “I was such a good girl, with Sister, Sister; I rarely got drunk and I was like, ‘Let me see what it feels like, just to get drunk.’ ”
“Have fun, travel, do whatever it is that you want to do and that you can do before you have a child, because … certain things, it’s going to be very easy for you to put on the back burner until things get settled again,” Mowry-Hardrict recalls. “I was asking this woman, ‘How do you do it? How are you present with being a mom and with being a showrunner and being able to juggle all of these things, and you still have a smile on your face?’ ”
“And she said, ‘How can the goose lay the egg if the goose does not take care of herself?’ ” she adds.
