Amanda Seyfried Shares the ‘Trippy’ Way She Bonds With Daughter Nina: ‘A Little Weird, but How Beautiful’

Amanda Seyfried has a new after-school routine with her 7-year-old daughter Nina, which she admits is “a little weird.” The Mean Girls star revealed how she bonds with her eldest child — and it sounds like the cutest thing ever.

In an interview with PEOPLE at the Best Friends Animal Society Gala, Seyfried shared that her daughter is “obsessed” with her 2008 movie Mamma Mia! “My mom showed my daughter, and my daughter is now obsessed, and so she’s 7, so she’s in second grade, and all her friends are obsessed,” Seyfried told the outlet. “So now they’re starting to recognize me as Sophie, which is a little weird, but how beautiful.”

Many kids have some screentime after a long day of classes, but how many get to watch movies starring their moms? (Props to Grandma Seyfried for introducing Nina to this classic musical!)

“I don’t think she quite understands it, but she loves it. She loves it!” Seyfried continued, adding that her daughter also loves the 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. “She loves both of them, she’s like, ‘Can we listen to Mamma Mia! right now?’ Even yesterday, and I was like, ‘Yeah, which one, one or two?’” Seyfried said.

“And then we listen, and then she’ll be like, ‘No, let’s do ‘Lay All Your Love On Me,’” she continued. “And I’m listening to this music with my daughter, who is now understanding and they’re appreciating it in a way that is ‘trippy.’”

The Dropout star shares Nina and son Thomas, 4, who she shares with husband Thomas Sadoski. In a 2023 interview with TODAY, Seyfried shared the importance of taking care of yourself during motherhood.

“[Parenthood] inundates your life in a way that is so wonderful, but it’s a lot of work and it leaves so little room for your old life,” Seyfried said, adding that she doesn’t view mothers as having their own interests outside of their kids as “selfish,” but as being “somebody who wants to be whole for their kids, because your kids deserve full parents.”

She also encourages her kids to talk about anything with her. “I just want my kids to know that they can come to me no matter what,” Seyfried said. “Embarrassed, fearful, anxious, excited, whatever they’re feeling, if they let it out a little bit, it’s liberating.”

And if they let it out by belting songs to Mamma Mia!, then that’s OK too! (Because, honestly, same!)

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