Modern Motherhood
Reader's Digest Canada|January/February 2018

Workin’ Moms creator Catherine Reitman on being imperfect, tackling controversial topics and focusing more on dads.

Courtney Shea
Modern Motherhood

We’ve been saying that women can have it all for a long time now, but your show isn’t always so optimistic. What’s your take?

I think the most honest answer I can give is that you can have degrees of it all as long as you’re willing to compromise. You can have a foot in motherhood and career and relationship, but there are going to be days when your relationship is stronger and others when you feel like you’re killing it as a mom. In my experience, women don’t tend to get everything on the same day.

The show has resonated with a lot of actual working mothers. Is there one scene in particular they most often want to talk about?

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