NICOLE ARI PARKER TALKS SELF-CARE AND NEW PARTNERSHIP

Any mother knows that when you have children, self-care tends to take a backseat for a few years. In a new interview with Essence Magazine, actress and entrepreneur, Nicole Ari Parker is talking balancing self-care and motherhood, in addition to how it has inspired a new partnership. Glam screenshot from IG video of Nicole Ari Parker. NICOLE ARI PARKER/INSTAGRAM “I think any mom will tell you the different phases of their children’s lives, self-care is secondary especially when they’re little,” Parker said. “And my kids are teenagers now, so I have a little more time for makeup.” “I also think that self-care changes when you become a parent and it’s not always pampering, it’s sometimes just rest, meditation, prayer, those kinds of things you need in your toolbox. And they become a luxury too. So for me, carving out that time to just sit and pray and write and think, that’s pampering, that’s self-care,” the mother-of-two continued. Nicole Ari Parker and family on vacation. BORIS KODJOE/INSTAGRAM Parker has even shared important self-care tips with her 19-year-old daughter, Sophie. “… I really knew as a young woman that I wanted her to have self-care in her life and to carve out...