Rachel Bilson Will get Candid About Relationship As a Single Mother

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Rachel Bilson could also be searching for a brand new love however, at first, her coronary heart will all the time belong to her daughter. 

Whereas chatting with Bachelor alum Nick Viall on his The Viall Information podcast, The O.C. alum opened up about relationship as a single mother. (She shares daughter Briar Rose Christensen, four, with actor ex Hayden Christensen.)

“I used to be speaking to this guys just a few months again, anytime I’d deliver my daughter up, they might by no means pursue the query or ask extra about her,” she confessed. “It was a pink flag as a result of anybody that you’ll become involved with, when you’ve got a child, they must be all in regards to the child.” 

Certainly, the 37-year-old is fast to deliver up her daughter to potential suitors, even when she’s simply attending to know them.

“I all the time put it on the market,” the actress continued. “She’s my world and I speak about her on a regular basis. How f–kid up wouldn’t it be if I hid that?…If you are going to pursue one thing with somebody, they must have an interest within the child or be keen to be across the child.”

She does, nevertheless, shrink back from introducing Briar to any new males. 

“She has not met anybody as of but and it must be somebody I do know I will be with,” she added, noting that her daughter have a really shut relationship together with her dad. “It must be a really critical relationship.”

In any case, Bilson is protecting of her child. She particularly goes out of her approach to maintain Briar out of the highlight and off of social media.

“All people has a unique concept of what they wish to do with their youngsters and what not,” she defined. “They do not select to be within the limelight, you understand, themselves. Once they’re sufficiently old and so they wish to pursue it and that is what they do then that is wonderful. But it surely’s not like I wish to promote my child or put her on the market.”

The paparazzi, nevertheless, are an entire completely different story.

“I noticed an image the opposite day of my daughter someplace and she or he’s trying on the digital camera smiling as a result of she has no concept,” Bilson admitted. “She thinks somebody is simply taking her image…It crushed me.”

Nonetheless, she finds limitless happiness in her daughter’s smile. Past the limitless selfies Briar takes on her telephone⁠—”I’ve hundreds,” mentioned Bilson. “She does not know it is known as a selfie so I really feel prefer it’s OK.”—she relishes within the perks of motherhood, which embrace bailing on plans and slicing by means of airport safety.

“Children are nice for an excuse for something,” she mentioned. “In the event you do not wish to do one thing, you do not ever must lie as a result of like you’ve gotten youngsters. You’ll be able to depart early, you cannot go and you’ll go to mattress at 9 and it is superior.”

Joked Bilson, “I am 80 at coronary heart.”