Cristela Alonso

And let me tell you, man, once you raise a child one time, you never want to do it again.

They're terrible.

They don't tell you that.

They're terrible.

I feel bad for parents.

God, you get tricked.

Because when people say they want kids, they usually mean I want a baby.

No one ever says, I want a 17-year-old.

It sounds terrible to say this, but I feel that my mom dying was so liberating to me.

Because my mom had chosen me to be her caregiver when I was a little kid.

She told me that when she got older, I was going to be the one to take care of her.

And I took that on because she had done so much for me.

She sacrificed so much for my family.

How could I not do that?

do what she wanted me to do.

So when she passed away, I thought, wow, I can finally chase my dream.

If I don't do it now, I'm never going to do it.

And that's what I decided to do.

And let me tell you, I grew up in the kind of family where it's not the kind of conversation I had with my sister.

My sister and I wouldn't talk about that.