Christina Ricci is talking out in regards to the challenges she faces as a working mother — and is sharing her struggles regardless of repercussions to her profession. 

On Monday’s episode of Shannen Doherty’s podcast, “Let’s Be Clear,” the previous “Charmed” star requested Ricci what it’s wish to juggle work and a household.

The “Wednesday” star shares a 2-year-old, Cleopatra, with her husband, Mark Hampton. She can also be mother to son Freddie, 9, whom she shares with ex-husband James Heerdegen.

“It is tricky,” Ricci admitted to Doherty 17 minutes into the episode. “I also …have an awareness of not making it about that it’s difficult for me because I have children. Because I don’t want anyone to be like, ‘Well, we won’t use her [for a project] because it’s so difficult for her because she’s a mom.’ …But at the same time, it is really difficult.” 

Ricci defined that being away from residence through the filming of her hit sequence “Yellowjackets” affected her relationship with Cleopatra when she was a child.

“Last year I was commuting back and forth to Vancouver for ‘Yellowjackets.’ She didn’t know me. We had no bond. So that was very upsetting.”

Ricci additionally defined why she was unable to deliver her household along with her to Vancouver. 

“If you’re a series regular, you have to pay for everything, so I can’t… every time I go up and down, I can’t pay for four people, four flights, you know, and the rooms that you would need and all… it’s just too expensive to travel with everybody all the time,” Ricci stated.

Although the “Addams Family” alum says that her “kids do not like it when I travel,” she stated she does attempt to deliver them alongside and contain them as a lot as she will be able to.

“I think really the thing that I learned, especially with my son, is mixing him into my work life. Why can’t he come for the weekend to a convention and see what it’s like?” 

Although Ricci stated having Freddie do issues like take footage of her with followers at conventions has been “good,” she identified that spending time with him when he was youthful was additionally a wrestle. 

“There are certain things, like my son was never sleep trained because I had to go back to work when he was 2 months old,” she stated. Ricci stated her ex-husband “wouldn’t help me at all with anything” and recalled having Freddie sleep in the identical mattress along with her “just to get enough sleep to be able to work the next day.”

She stated Hampton has been a way more supportive co-parent.

“I went and shot ‘Wednesday’ in Romania when she was 2 months old, and Mark did every single night all night long. Like I just slept and worked the next day, and it made such a huge difference. It was so much easier this time around. You know, you have to have a good supportive partner.”

Ricci definitely isn’t alone in fearing she might face penalties at work for expressing her grievances in regards to the issue of being a working mother. A large body of research has found that working moms typically face biases at work, which sociologists name the “motherhood penalty.” Evidence-based analysis of how the motherhood penalty can play out for working mothers of their careers embrace moms being judged for being extra dedicated to their household than to work or, paradoxically, being deemed a nasty mom for being extra dedicated to their work than to their children.