Lights, camera action has turned into reading, writing and highly-impossible arithmetic for a lot of celebrity parents. The Coronavirus pandemic has turned some of the biggest names in Hollywood into lesson planners, P.E. teachers and full-time educators. Now, that they have made the career change, they have a new appreciation for those who do the job every single day.
Shakira , Jennifer Lopez , Chris Hemsworth and more stars have opened up about their new jobs in the education system, and the stories are priceless. Here is a look at the stars who have traded in the lights and the camera for tablets, reading and school work. Scroll ahead to see the stars who are spending their days as teachers.
Jennifer Lopez
JLo and her fiancé at at home with their four children. Jennifer, who shares 12-year-old twins Max and Emme with Marc Anthony, admitted that she is the one staying on top of everyone’s education.
“I help with the homework. All four kids are doing virtual school right now and so I stay more on top of Emme and Max about that,” she told Ellen DeGeneres. “I think we‘re all like ’What is this?’ I’m not a teacher. And also, have you seen the math that they make the kids do now? It’s a new math! It’s crazy. So half the time I’m like ... ‘Okay, yeah, let’s look up that word. What’s that mean?’”
Roselyn Sanchez and Eric Winter
The Grand Hotel star took to her social media to show what school time looks like at casa Winter. Roselyn’s husband Eric was hard at work with their daughter Sebella.
“Home school in full effect with daddy.”
Shakira
Shakira and Gerad Piqué’s sons Sasha and Milan are getting home school lessons from one of the most glam teachers. The Hips Don’t Lie singer took to her social media to share her pre-teacher glam.
“Mustered up the strength to put on some makeup for my day job of homeschool teacher.”
Chris Hemsworth
Chris and his wife Elsa Pataky are parents to six-year-old twins Tristan and Sasha and eight-year-old India. Thanks to the trio, the Avengers star and his wife have their hands full with at home education.
“I‘ve just relaxed into the idea that they’re going to come out of this quarantine [with their] IQ under par,” the dad told Jimmy Kimmel. Adding that the day is “four to five hours of negotiations and bribery and 20 minutes of actual work.”
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis
Ashton and Mila’s children Wyatt, five and Dimitri, three, are learning there’s a time for everything, including school.
“Teaching’s hard,” Ashton told Maria Shriver and Patrick Schwarzenegger during an Instagram Live chat. “We have a three and five-year-old. I think the thing they’ve probably learned the most is sit down, put that down, no we aren’t having a snack right now,” he quipped.
“We’ve quarantined out a special room in our house that is the classroom,” he shared. “Once we go in, we are the teachers and not the parents. We sort of had to create an environment for that. There are a different set of rules that exist in here and not the rest of the house.”
Kim Kardashian
The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star has her hands full with two school-aged kids (North and Saint) and two babies (Chicago and Psalm). For her household, the trick to school is making sure they’re hitting every subject.
So to be the teacher to four young kids — well, two are in school, so two — is insanity. I’m, like, hiding from them,” She told Jimmy Fallon. “And then they have to stop for P.E., go run up and down in the backyard, or they do this Pokémon yoga.”
John Legend and Chrissy Teigen
The Voice coach and the Cravings creator are doubling as Pre-K teachers and daycare providers. With Luna, four and two-year-old Miles, they now have a greater understanding of what teachers go through.
“It’s not easy,” the All of Me singer told People. “I think every parent is realizing how hard it is to be a teacher.”
Halle Berry
As the proud mom of a 12-year-old and six-year-old, education is key. However, sometimes they all aren’t feeling it. “They’re not learning anything...to get them to focus and realize they’re at home but yet they’re at school, it’s really been a challenge,” She told Entertainment Tonight.
“This is like a wash of a semester, and it‘s hard. I have a six year old, and what I learned is that when six year olds see other six year olds do things, then they do things. Like, they sit and they eat because there’s 25 other ones doing it. They stay at their desks and color because there’s 25 other ones doing it.”
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