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Michelle Williams Gets Candid About Balancing Work With Three Children: ‘I Really Want To Be Able To Have Both’

By Aashna Shah.

Michelle Williams is set to play the last of Henry VIII's six wives, Katherine Parr, in Karim Aïnouz’s “Firebrand”. The film marks the director's English-language debut and is expected to go into production in the U.K. in early 2022. “I could not be more excited to be bringing the undiscovered story of Katherine Parr to the screen, a ferociously brilliant woman who I am inspired by deeply and has been largely invisible, or certainly under-represented in English history,” Aïnouz said, according to Variety.

Emmy Award winner Michelle Williams, a mother of three, got candid and spoke about balancing life as a working mother.

“It’s amazing because we all do it. That’s how every human gets here, is a woman giving of herself,” Williams told the PEOPLE magazine.

“[Babies] have to arrive, and they have to be sustained, all of it. So I’m continuously searching because balance isn’t a stable place. Balance means that you’re always adjusting,” “The Fablemans actress added.

Williams is a mother to a 17-year-old daughter Matilda, whom she shares with late actor Heath Ledger. She also has a two-year-old son Hart with director Kail. The couple welcomed their second baby in November 2022.

When talking about managing her profession and family life, Williams said:

“My heart obviously belongs to my children; they tug at it the most. But I really want to be able to have both. And I think that it requires deep thought and learning and the support of other women to figure out how to get through it.”

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