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Kristen Bell initially didn't want her children to be in showbiz. The 43-year-old actress has daughters Lincoln, 11, and eight-year-od Delta with 'Armchair Expert' host Dax Shepard and admitted that she wasn't originally keen on them following in her footsteps until her husband made her look at the idea in a different way. She told People: "You know it's interesting, when I first thought about it, I thought, ‘Oh, I don't want them to be actors.

There's too much rejection. Then my husband said, ‘Wait, do you like your life? Do you have fun? Are you overpaid? Do you get to be creative every day?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ He said, ‘Why would you not want that for your kids?" But the 'Frozen' star was keen to stress that for any parents whose children are hoping to become actors themselves to be mindful of the "rejection" that comes with the nature of the visit and to just keep working on their passion if it is what they truly want.



Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. She said: "I'd have to think longer and harder about advice." “I would just say, ‘There's a lot of rejection, but brush it off because if you're doing what you love, something will find you.

" Kristen made her stage debut in a production of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' in New York and was rehearsing for it just as the events of 9/11 struck as she recalled that it was working with those people that encouraged her to move out to Hollywood where she met her husb.

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