Inside Anna Faris' Mom Life With Son Jack Pratt

Anna Faris was always qualified to take on the role of being a mom. Here's what the Spa Weekend star has said about co-parenting her 14-year-old son Jack with ex-husband Chris Pratt and much more.

Anna Faris never had to worry that she was unqualified for motherhood.

But she still questioned whether she was "fundamentally suited" for the role, telling E! News at the premiere of her new comedy Spa Weekend, in theaters Aug. 21, that before welcoming son Jack with then-husband Chris Pratt 14 years ago, she was already covered by "a blanket of guilt."

Hanging out with other mothers, she always felt as if she was "messing up somehow," the 49-year-old explained. "I know I'm doing something wrong here.”

So, though Faris is admittedly raising "this incredible, fascinating boy," she was quick to add, "I hope I'm doing OK."

From her lips to every parent's ears, but the Mom alum has been candid about not always feeling as if she has a grasp on the task at hand. She even used to worry that that she wasn't worrying enough.

Case in point, when she and Pratt dropped Jack off on his first day of kindergarten.

“I feel really guilty that I wasn’t more anxious,” she shared on The Talk in 2018. “It feels like all of the other parents were really anxious and the kindergarten teachers are asking, ‘Oh, is everything gonna be okay?’ I felt like, can’t we just drop him off?"

As Jack "just ran in and was like, ‘Bye guys!’" she recalled, "it was that funny mom guilt feeling, where I feel like this should emotionally tug at me more than it is.”

But considering all that Jack had already overcome, perhaps Faris just had faith that school would be child's play for him. 

Born nine weeks early and weighing only 3 pounds, 12 ounces, Jack spent more than his fair share of time in the hospital, including a month in the NICU before she and Pratt could take him home.

Then he had "a few hernia surgeries, he's had a few eye surgeries and he had a little heart issue as well," Faris shared on her Unqualified podcast in 2018. Jack's premature birth "came as a huge shock and suddenly, your world completely shifts."

But those harrowing few years made every subsequent milestone feel all the more miraculous.

"He's a total ham," Faris said of her then-4-year-old on HuffPost Live in 2016. "I get a kick out of him."

The House Bunny star, however, was still her own toughest critic.

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