'You do miss the 22-year-old supermodel': Molly Sims on aging, home and 'snapping back' after pregnancy
After the show “Las Vegas” wrapped in 2008, actress and model Molly Sims moved away from the full-time glitz of the small screen. Now, three kids and a best-selling book later, Sims has embraced a new runway, cultivating life inside the home with her own supermodel style.
Her new book, Everyday Chic, presents a plethora of home décor, fashion, food and DIY advice from Sims and her team of experts. Call it a lifestyle book of “tips and tricks and little secrets learnt along the way,” says Sims.
“As a model, constantly traveling, I missed birthday and funerals, but over the past five years I’ve started to take the hosting role on,” Sims tells Yahoo Canada. “I’ve moved, I’ve rented, I’ve bought, I’ve built things, tore things down, had three kids.”
Like modelling, Sims makes it look easy. “We try to take everything that takes a lot of effort and make it effortless. Like Instagram is perfect because you make the photos perfect, that’s what we do with the book.”
Upholding perfection is something Sims knows well. Being a model for the likes of J. Crew and balancing strenuous work schedules while not always being healthy or comfortable doing it, was a big part of her 20s.
“I used to be in Germany, speaking no German while everyone around me only spoke German and it would be dark at like 2 p.m. in the afternoon, we’d do 19, 20, 25 shots and then I’d go home…I truly lived as a human coat hanger,” says Sims.
As life changed from late night parties and storing cashmere sweaters in the oven, to mommy-at-home-duties, Sims jokes how time is now preciously non-existent. “I used to take showers and now my showers are like 37 seconds with the kids banging on the door looking at me, making faces. And I’m surrounded by Barbies.”
Time also weighed on the star when it came to “snapping back” after giving birth.
“There’s a lot of pressure to get your body back after pregnancy,” says Sims. “Like a woman said to me after I dropped my kid off for preschool, ‘Aren’t you happy to be back in your jeans? You got your skinny jeans on.’ And then said: ‘you look great in your jeans’ and I’m like ‘OK, so now I’m being judged at preschool, OK sure, go ahead.’”
Still, Sims has found a happy place with her wellness and has set reasonable goals in her everyday.
“Not everything is about the scale and how much you weigh, I’ll tell you, like we spend so much time thinking about it. Yeah, it’s great to get the flu and lose five pounds you know? But, is it really worth it…the fever, passing out potentially for a couple pounds?”
She’s also realistic about being a working mom and the role model she needs to be for her children.
“It’s been a rough transition, I’m not going to lie, I can’t do drastic things that I used to do and I’m certainly not unhappy not to do them. I mean I have three kids,” explains Sims. “I’m not going to be starving or eating nothing but grapefruit for three days. And also, I don’t want them to see that.”
While her drastic diet days are no longer, Sims hasn’t ruled out unconventional (perhaps questionable) practices like having an electrocution algae facial to keep her youthful glow in tact. She’s not afraid to admit she’s still changing and learning things both in beauty and behaviour, along the way.
“I am in my 40s and sometimes you do have to change your path, change your mind and all that. Friends that you had in college or after college may change, there’s only so much time. A therapist once told me that ‘every event you do takes you away from your family’ so you have to make good choices.”
So, Sims continues to welcome these changes and enjoys what she knows now. “I get a big smile and a hug and I love you momma and that makes up for it,” she says. “I mean you miss the 22-year-old supermodel, I mean you do, I miss her deep down for sure.”
As for whether or not her little ones may soon follow in those modelling footsteps?
“No I don’t think so, I mean to each their own,” Sims says. “I think it depends on your family and your morals, I mean Cindy (Crawford) goes with Kaia to shoots and all that. That’s important. It does scare me though, I think my mom did it really well because she made me go to college, go to prom, graduate from high school. I just want my kids to finish school.”
As for her new book, Sims says it’s there to relieve friends, families, couples, singles, whomever, from the burden they may feel when it comes to entertaining.
“You don’t need to have 19 kinds of proteins and 14 kinds of beer, just get a bucket and make it look cool, the devil is in the details you know? You need good food, alcohol and friends—that’s what you need.”
From meal preps to house stylings; setting up a nursery to chic backyard swag ideas; drink recipes to family codes of conduct—each chapter comes with takeaways for both living and entertaining in style. Sims even has go-to daytime and nighttime playlists included in the book. “I’ve worked from home now for five years and this is what I have to show for it,” she adds.
“It’s a little hard not being able to travel and be on a show, but for now, I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I would never miss this to go walk a red carpet that took seven hours to get ready for simply two minutes of walking. I mean it’s fun, but it can’t be my life anymore.”
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