With multiple TV shows, a 4-year-old son to raise and a crusade to spread tips for preventing the flu this season, Tia Mowry is a busy lady. Her secret to doing it all is simple, she told HuffPost Live last week: she and her husband Cory Hardrict make their marriage an equal partnership -- one that avoids traditional gender roles altogether.
"We don't put gender roles on our marriage and our relationship. If I'm working a lot and Cory's home, he will put Cree to bed, and if dishes need to be washed, he will wash them," Mowry told host Nancy Redd. "So it's not like, 'Oh, I'm going to wait until my wife gets home and she's going to be doing all that.'"
Mowry said that having her husband to lean on allows her to chase her dreams while fulfilling her obligations to her family.
"I have goals and aspirations, and I believe that you can go after your dreams and it can work if you have someone there that's supporting you," she said.
Likewise, Mowry happily steps in for her husband when he is wrapped up shooting films like "American Sniper" or "Spectral," which hits theaters next year.
"I had to take on those responsibilities that a father would do," she said. "I was out in the backyard teaching my son how to kick a ball. We don't put labels on each other. ... It's a team effort, and at the end of the day it's winning and however we get there, that's what we do."
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Moms' Honest Parenting Selfies
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Open Image Modal"We have a room of toys, and all he wants to do is pull my hair." (credit:Katie Leach)
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Open Image Modal"Finding a little foot next to your face at 3 a.m." (credit:April Renee Ramsey)
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Open Image Modal"Doing nothing on your own, ever again." (credit:Abby Worden)
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Open Image Modal"It's all fun and games until... this! But of course you just gotta smile :) #thisisparenting" (credit:Lisa Minck)
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Open Image Modal"Days old, dead tired!" (credit:Kasey Gravel)
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Open Image Modal"I'm beginning to understand that I can't have it all. But I have enough. And my enough is so much." (credit:Julee Wilson)
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Open Image Modal"No personal space, no time off, fingers shoved up noses and mouths, no showers for two days, but so worth all the love and laughter you receive back from them." (credit:Ali Ashbacher)
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Open Image Modal"It's crying right along with the baby." (credit:Rachel Henderson)
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Open Image Modal"Staying home is so easy though, right? Toddlers and babies and lots of coffee." (credit:Teddi Bewernitz)
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Open Image Modal"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had and dealing with fears you didn't know existed." (credit:Rosine Oriabure)
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Open Image Modal"Parenting is never boring!!" (credit:Megan Mueller)
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Open Image Modal"Baby won't sleep and I've been up all night nursing him... But he's full of smiles!" (credit:Carolyn Griffin)
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Open Image Modal"Trying to put her down for a nap. She likes to be as close to my face as is physically possible. I think she had something to do with those dark circles under my eyes, too." (credit:Seré Altebrando)
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Open Image Modal"Well I would say that although parenting is the most difficult job a person could ever have, watching them change everyday and reaching new milestones makes it all worth it!" (credit:Nina Hassan)
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Open Image Modal"Never having a nice 'normal' photo together" (credit:Eleanor Hanson ToBe)
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Open Image Modal"Having to sit between your kids on a three hour car trip so they don't kill each other." (credit:Melissa Naymik Linebrink)
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Open Image Modal"Teething makes everyone tired." (credit:Rebecca Harris)
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Open Image Modal"Spit up or the newest trend in moisturizer?" (credit:Keara Stein)
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Open Image Modal"Newborn" (credit:Heather May Holbrook)
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Open Image Modal"Running on little sleep with my baby while my toddler puts toys on my head." (credit:Crystal Evans Salgado)
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Open Image Modal"The word 'tired' takes on a whole new meaning when there's a newborn involved." (credit:Kimberly Mahan)