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Daily Mirror
01-07-2025
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- Daily Mirror
'We made a huge mistake with our baby name that others should avoid'
One mother has shared a warning to any pregnant mums-to-be about picking a baby name, as she admitted to making a "huge mistake" with hers. She took to Reddit to share the details of her issue Coming up with a name for your unborn child isn't easy. Both parents have to agree on the baby name and you also have to think about a moniker that will suit your child when they are both young and an adult. However, if you're thinking about waiting to name your child until they're born, one mum has warned against it. The mother took to Reddit to share a post in which she shared how her and her partner waited to name their baby until they arrived, branding it a "huge mistake". The mum said her and her husband had a few names picked out for the majority of her pregnancy but "couldn't decide" on one. However, she's now wishing they had agreed on a name after all. She wrote: "We had two names picked out for the majority of my pregnancy and couldn't decide on one 100% so we decided to wait to see him. "Well that was a HUGE mistake because it turns out babies both look like no name and every name and for a few reasons my husband wants to completely drop both names and start from the beginning." She added: "I see where he's coming from but that seems insane that we would love these names for months and suddenly see lots of issues with them. "The two options were Hollis and Abbott. I still love them both. The third name we are liking currently is Ferris." Asking people their opinions, the mum concluded: "What are your thoughts on these names? Any other suggestions of things we can consider?" The post certainly struck a chord with people on Reddit as it racked up hundreds of upvotes and comments. One person wrote: "Please do not name your kid Ferris. That is not a serious name in 2025. "Hollis is my favourite of the three. It gives him a name to grow into. Lacking a good nickname but one can come organically. Abbott is ok. "It seems you might be into uncommon names that may have started as last names then grew as first names here are a couple of suggestions that started out as last names and have morphed into first names: Beckett, Anderson, Hayes, Brooks, Rhodes." Many also agreed that didn't like the name Ferris, with some saying it made them think of a Ferris wheel or reminded them of 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. However, someone else argued: "I think a lot of people are saying don't name your kid Ferris based on a movie that came out like 40 years ago. It's not a bad name. It's fine." Another person also gave their view, as they said: "Of your three, definitely Hollis. It's really cool. Reminds me of Ellis. Which I love." They also gave a few of their own suggestions, adding: "What about: Jonah, Elias, Forrest, Asher, Cole?" Someone else who also admitted they 'didn't like any of the names' suggested Callum, Rhett, Ansel and Felix. A further Reddit user agreed that it isn't the best idea to wait to name a baby as they wrote: "Yeah personally I've never understood the whole 'We will wait to see them' thing… I firmly believe you just have to choose the name you connect with most and the baby will grow into it. I really like Hollis! Abbott and Ferris are terrible to me." However, someone else argued: "See I am the complete opposite! I waited until I could lay eyes on both my kids and still picked a name from the list, but lower on the list than anticipated. I am indecisive by nature though and didn't have a family name or traditional name that I wanted to pass down. If I did, I likely would've been able to pick before they were born."
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sarah Jessica Parker Made a Major Change to 'Sex and the City' Because of Husband Matthew Broderick
Fans of Sex and the City know that the show went through some major changes over the years. In season 1, for instance, strangers on the street gave their takes on Carrie's (Sarah Jessica Parker) most burning questions. And, as it turns out, there was another aspect of the show that Parker herself vetoed early on. In a recent episode of Kristin Davis' podcast, Are You a Charlotte?, Davis and one of SATC's former guest actors, John Benjamin Hickey, remembered why Parker fought against breaking the fourth wall. More from SheKnows Michelle Obama's Spain Trip Proves She Has No Time for Divorce Rumors 'Sarah Jessica's very open mission was to get rid of talking to the camera,' Davis remembered, per Entertainment Weekly. 'Because I remember in the pilot her saying, 'You know, do I have to talk to the camera? It's so strange to break the fourth wall. I'm in this scene.'' As Parker debated with creator Darren Star about it, she explained that she was worried about comparisons to the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which her husband, Matthew Broderick, starred in. In the movie, Broderick's character Ferris often pauses to the camera to share his inner thoughts or give the audience, as if they're a friend of his, some advice. As a reminder, Parker and Broderick got married in 1997 while the first season of SATC aired a year later in 1998. '[She was] worried about Ferris Bueller, which I had never thought of,' the And Just Like That star said. 'She thought she was never going to live up to that, which is so adorable.' 'I had never seen an actress be able to speak so clearly about what they wanted to do and what they didn't want to do without being angry or histrionic or whatever,' Davis gushed about her longtime co-star. 'Just very clearly articulating why it was hard for her, why she felt like she wasn't doing it well, how she felt like it was better to stay with us in the scene.' 'And I was like, 'Yes. Yes. I agree with her,'' Davis remembered. 'Then she zinged, 'Not that anyone cares what I think over here!'' As longtime fans of the show know, Parker instead opted to do narrations for the show. In them, she shares her inner thoughts as well as reads lines from her iconic sex and lifestyle column. It's an iconic choice by itself, and it didn't ruffle any feathers at home. A win-win, right?Best of SheKnows 23 Age-Gap Couples Who Met When One of Them Was Still a Child Everything to Know About Leonardo DiCaprio's 27-Year-Old GF Vittoria Ceretti A Look Back at Prince William's Sexiest Photos in Celebration of the Future King
Yahoo
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' made Mia Sara a star. Leaving Hollywood has been freeing.
Though she appeared to be on top of the world as a teen star in the '80s, the truth is that Mia Sara found the Hollywood spotlight uncomfortable. Now, at 58, she's happier than ever, thanks to a quiet home life with her husband, Brian Henson, son of Muppets creator Jim Henson, and kids Dashiell Connery, 28, and Amelia, 21. And this month, the actress returned to the big screen for the first time in a decade, starring as a grandmother in an adaptation of Stephen King's novella The Life of Chuck. Best known as Sloane Peterson in the John Hughes classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sara enjoyed breakout success with roles in All My Children and the fantasy film Legend, later appearing alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme in Timecop. But after appearing in the short film Pretty Pretty in 2013, she stepped away from acting with no intention of returning — that is, until director Mike Flanagan convinced her to sign onto Chuck. 'I love Mike Flanagan, like really adore him just as a person, and we are friends, and I'm just a huge fan,' Sara tells me for Yahoo Life's Unapologetically series. 'When we met [and had dinner], Mike said, 'Why don't you work anymore?' And I said, 'Oh, it's really complicated,' and he said, 'Would you ever work again? What if I offered you something?'' Although Flanagan joked that Sara would come to 'regret that dinner,' she feels quite differently about agreeing to star as Sarah Krantz opposite Mark Hamill's Albie Krantz in The Life of Chuck. 'It was a really healing experience,' she shares. 'Mike creates an incredibly cohesive and really terrific feeling on set. It felt like really nice closure. It did me a world of good.' The harmony and inner peace Sara felt on set mirror what she's currently experiencing in her personal life as she nears 60. 'I feel a huge pressure is off to not be comparing myself to people,' she says. Our conversation touches on the power of stepping away from the spotlight, the beauty (and, yes, some "crappy" parts) of aging and how youth isn't all it's cracked up to be. (Spoiler alert: Being 'very young' contributed to Ferris being a 'cringy experience' for Sara.) What I love about my 50s is that I feel like a huge pressure is off to not be comparing myself to people. And I love the fact that my interactions with people [are] just about me, my attitude, me as a person. I don't feel like I have to get past something anymore with people. [But] there are serious bummers to do with health and pain. So, I'm just looking forward to hopefully remaining healthy and active. I have a Connemara pony called Rory, and he is the greatest pony on the face of the earth — and I'm not the only person who thinks that. I just feel like as long as I can stay in the saddle, I'm good. And for many years now, I've been using this mindfulness app called Happier. I have found it very helpful. Sometimes, for big swaths of time, I'll do it every day, and then, sometimes, I travel a lot and I drop it for a couple of weeks, but I always return to it. I feel I'm less reactive, more present and more aware. You know, my kids have noticed. And the other really good thing about getting older is I have a sense of how fortunate I am. I have a really great life, and I'm really grateful for it. I think meditation does help with that. Oh, and lots and lots of high-quality therapy! Yes, aging comes up in therapy all the time. It's a hard thing. There are definitely really crappy aspects to it that I do grapple with in therapy and with my friends. I'm fortunate to have very dear friends for many years, and we're all going through it together, and we've supported each other through some pretty scary stuff. Scary stuff starts happening at my age. I've been lucky, but I have very close friends who've had some serious illnesses. So, all of the support that you can have to help yourself and others through [the challenges of getting older] is beneficial. A long time ago, I knew this woman, a really good friend of my ex-husband [Jason Connery]. She had been a prima ballerina. I was younger, and I was just complaining about something, and she said, "Look, certain things are not gonna get better than this moment. And you're gonna look back on this moment, at whatever physical thing you're complaining about or feeling critical or judgmental of. So, just enjoy the ride." Enjoy the ride. I haven't thought about that in years, but that's something that I would tell my daughter or my son's wonderful girlfriend. But the other thing is that I've noticed that nobody really follows advice. I feel like if you feel comfortable, you could freely give advice, but never expect them to actually [take it], because we have to learn ourselves. We all have to learn things the hard way. I do. Everyone feels critical of themselves. I've never met anyone who says, 'I'm so perfectly happy with the way I look and how I feel I'm being perceived.' One of the important things to know is that you don't have control over how people are gonna feel about you. So, the thing is to focus on yourself and how you feel about yourself and also how you treat other people. It's so much more important to be kind and to be compassionate as a human being than to focus on your appearance. And that's what my husband and I have tried to model. I would worry about it around middle school when [my daughter's friends] were all endlessly on social media, but my daughter wasn't that into it. So that was lucky. I'm really working toward trying to give myself grace. Especially because of this movie that's coming out [The Life of Chuck], and there are all these retrospective blurbs, and they put a picture of me now, and then they put like all these pictures through time, and it's like, 'I'm melting!' But when I was younger, I always found older women very beautiful. So, when I look in the mirror, I see myself, and I like the way I look. [But it can be] harder when, after a long time, I'm having to confront myself onscreen. That's a very different experience, which is a little challenging. And if you have been considered attractive and beautiful or whatever, and it's a part of your identity, it's hard to let it go. But it is actually really freeing to feel like no one's looking at me. I understand what people mean about being invisible. I don't feel invisible. I just don't feel like I have to put out anymore. It's nice. I can just present myself as myself, and my interactions with people [are] about who I am. I don't feel like I'm being judged as much because of what I appear to be. I think it's possible to feel more and more aligned with who you are as you get older. I like people not looking at me. That was not always very comfortable for me. How did you deal with that as a teen, especially when you were very much in the spotlight for ? I don't think I did very well with it. I was not comfortable. I wasn't mature enough to really take advantage of it. I was really young. I'm a very introverted person. I did not have the greatest time making that movie, because I was in the most awkward stage of my actual adolescence. I was very out of my element and depth. I didn't have that high school experience. So, I felt really out of it. I was younger than the other main cast members [Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck and Jennifer Grey], and they were all a lot more experienced than I was. And it showed in my behavior. When I look back on it, it's a very cringy experience for me. That's sadly how I feel about the movie. I absolutely recognize the durability of it, and I'm really grateful to be in it, and I appreciate the appreciation of it, but the truth is that it was a really bad moment for me.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mia Sara Fangirled Over 'Adorable' Mark Hamill on Their New Movie: 'I Get to Be Married to Luke Skywalker!' (Exclusive)
Mia Sara says she may have lost her cool when she realized she'd be acting alongside Mark Hamill in her new project She called the Star Wars icon "adorable" and was excited her character got to be "married to Luke Skywalker" Sara, best known for costarring with Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck in 1986's Ferris Bueller's Day Off, had not appeared on the big screen since 2011 prior to taking a part in Mike Flanagan's latest Stephen King adaptationActress Mia Sara may have acted alongside several Hollywood legends — but she wasn't immune to fan-girling over Luke Skywalker himself. In a recent exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Sara — the actress best known for playing Sloane Peterson opposite Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck in the 1986 teen classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off — said she was thrilled to learn that she'd be acting alongside Mark Hamill in the new movie The Life of Chuck. Asked if she was a Star Wars fan, Sara, 57, says, "I grew up in the seventies. Are you kidding?" "I couldn't believe when [director Mike Flanagan] told me that it was Mark Hamill [who] was going to play the grandpa, I couldn't believe it. I get to be married to Luke Skywalker. It's the greatest thing," she adds. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. While Sara tells PEOPLE she "tried" to be cool when she saw Hamill on set, she admits it was difficult. "We had so much fun actually. Because we knew we had just this little short moment, but we really had fun just trying to convey the loving relationship. And when it was over, we just thought, 'Oh, that's not enough. We want to do more,' " she says. Sara posed for photos alongside Hamill, Flanagan and costars including Tom Hiddleston, Benjamin Pajak, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Siegel, Karen Gillan, Carl Lumbly and Annalise Basso at the film's Los Angeles premiere on June 2. The film is adapted from a novella written by Stephen King. Speaking to PEOPLE, Sara says she felt inspired to end her hiatus from acting to work with Flanagan, 47, and his wife Siegel, 42, citing the pair's 2021 Netflix horror miniseries Midnight Mass as "one of my favorite things I've ever seen." "We've been such fans, and we met socially, he and the magnificent Kate Siegel, and he just said, 'Well, don't you ever really want to work again?' " Sara recalls. "And I said, 'Oh, I don't know.' He said, 'Well, what if I offered you something?' I said, 'Well, okay, if you offer me something, I'll do it.' " The Ferris Bueller star's role in The Life of Chuck comes more than a decade after she last appeared onscreen in 2011's Dorothy and the Witches of Oz. In 2013, Sara appeared in a short film titled Pretty Pretty. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Why Mia Sara's 'Ferris Bueller' Role Had Her Kids Cringing
Why Mia Sara's 'Ferris Bueller' Role Had Her Kids Cringing originally appeared on Parade. Mia Sara might've been the '80s cool girl following her role as Sloane Peterson in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but to her kids, watching their mom in the film was "embarrassing." In a new interview with PEOPLE, Sara, 57, spoke about what it was like to film the 1986 flick, and why her two kids weren't the biggest fans of her role–at first. "My kids have absolutely seen it. I think when they were younger, it was just embarrassing," Sara told PEOPLE of her role as Sloane, the girlfriend of Matthew Broderick's Ferris, who skips school to go to Chicago for the day with Ferris and Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck). "My kids, because they grew up in Hollywood, they grew up in Los Angeles, they had a lot of friends whose parents were actors who were still really working all the time, and so they were kind of bummed that I stopped working," she said. While it's been quite some time since Sara has been on screen, she's making her highly-anticipated return in Mike Flanagan's new film, The Life of Chuck, and this time around, Sara said her kids couldn't be more excited to watch their mom do her thing. "They're really excited and they're really proud of me for working again, so that is nice," she gushed. Sara shares son Dashiell, 28, with ex Jason Connery and daughter Amelia, 20, with husband Brian Henson, son of Muppets creator Jim Henson. In The Life of Chuck–her first role in 10 years–Sara plays the part of Sarah Krantz, the grandmother of Tom Hiddleston's lead character Charles Krantz. The movie follows the events of Charles' life in reverse-chronological order. The star-studded project also features Benjamin Pajak, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mark Hamill,Kate Siegel, Karen Gillan, Carl Lumbly and Annalise Basso, among others "Honestly, it really was all about Mike," Sara said of working with Flanagan, 47. When asked if she envisions more acting roles for the future, she added: "If Mike needs me, I'll be there." The Life of Chuck is in select theaters now and will debut nationwide June 13. Why Mia Sara's 'Ferris Bueller' Role Had Her Kids Cringing first appeared on Parade on Jun 10, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 10, 2025, where it first appeared.
