Pink is taking a break from work to focus on her kids

Pink is about to enter a new season of life, she announced at the CMAs this week. She told ET on the red carpet that she’s taking a break from her career in 2020.

“It’s kind of the year of the family,” Pink told reporters. “We did two and a half years of [music] and Willow’s [age 8] back in school now, Jameson’s [age 2] going to start pre-school soon,” Pink added.

The mom of two deserves a break. Her Beautiful Trauma tour was the 10th highest-grossing tour of all time, earning more than $397 million, Billboard notes. And her husband, Carey Hart, has been super supportive of Pink’s career. Now she wants to spend some time supporting him in his.

“He’s super supportive, he follows me around the world and now it’s his turn,” she explains. In some seasons of life a family may prioritize one parent’s career over the other’s, and that’s okay.

Pink is hardly the first celebrity parent to put their career on pause to spend more time with their kids. Actress Katherine Heigl has taken extended breaks from her career to spend time with her children, telling Good Housekeeping in 2014, “We had big dreams of expanding our family, moving to the mountains and having a quieter life.” She spent a season of her life raising her girls in Utah, and has now returned to her career, staring on Suits.

Halle Berry, too, is now ramping up her career again after a decade-long season in which she prioritized her kids’ childhoods. She recently opened up to InStyle about why she chose to pause her career, and why she feels now is the time to get back into it.

“I spent almost 10 years being in mom mode. Now that my youngest is starting kindergarten, I feel like I can get back into my life, and that’s important. I want to keep challenging myself and proving that I can still follow my passions, take risks and take on characters who make me feel alive. But I prove that to myself, not to anyone else. I think that’s what keeps us young. It keeps me connected to my children because I’m alive in the world. One day they’re going to grow up, and I don’t want to be the mom who’s crying because her kids left,” she explained.

For Berry, Heigl and Pink, work-life balance isn’t necessarily something to be negotiated on a daily basis, but rather in the longer term. It’s something many mothers do. Statistics show about 43% of moms do leave their careers at some point while raising kids but for most women this isn’t a permanent thing. Most go back after a year or two.

Just like going to work doesn’t mean you’re not committed to motherhood, taking time with the family doesn’t mean you’re abandoning your career. We’ll see you when you’re ready to come back to us, Pink. Until then, enjoy your family time.

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