Jennifer Lawrence is taking a page from her new mom playbook.
Months after welcoming her and husband Cooke Maroney’s second son, the Die My Love star detailed how her worldview changed after becoming a mom for the first time with their 3-year-old Cy.
“When I had my first child, I felt completely connected to my baby," Jennifer, 35, explained in an interview with W Magazine published Nov. 7. "But I also realized the world wasn’t designed around that relationship."
She continued, "Suddenly, you’re like, 'Wait, how am I supposed to go back to work? Get in a car and drive away? Get on an airplane and fly away from my baby? Like, what are you talking about?' Everything looks different after that.”
But as she navigated all the changes motherhood brought to her, she wasn’t doing so alone.
"As a mom, especially when I was a new, first-time mom, my community and having a mom community was so vital," she told E! News at the premiere of her and Robert Pattinson’s new movie earlier this month. "Having a community is so, so important and just being able to check in with other women, like, 'Is this normal?'"
And while Oscar winner can always turn to fellow moms like Emma Stone, she’s found her support system in many different ways.
"Even just meeting moms from the park," Jennifer noted, "or mommy-and-me class or eventually meeting other parents in my son's school."
Her lived experiences also helped her in her latest role in the film Die My Love, where she plays a young mother struggling with postpartum depression.
"It was really easy for me to see and follow that path of isolation and how much that would affect my mental well-being," she explained to E!. "I had more information than I would have if I wasn't a mom."
And her role as a mom hasn't just affected her work on this film, but every piece of work she's created since welcoming her babies.
"Having children changes everything, it changes your whole life,” the Hunger Games alum said during a press conference at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in May. “It’s brutal and incredible. They go into every decision of if I’m working, where I’m working, when I’m working.”
She added, "They've changed my life, obviously, for the best and they've changed me creatively."
For more of Jennifer through the years, read on.