Jordana Brewster’s Mother’s Day is going to look a little different this year.
“I don’t have custody of my kids this week, but I’m doing this fun, like, dive into the ocean with a bunch of other moms,” Brewster, 45, exclusively told Us Weekly at the Baby2Baby Mother’s Day Celebration presented by Crate & Kids on Thursday, May 8. “It’s almost like a cold plunge on Mother’s Day. So hopefully that starts a new tradition, too. That’ll be fun.”
Brewster, who shares sons Julian, 11, and Rowan, 8, with ex-husband Andrew Form, said coparenting is all about consistency. (Form, 56, also shares a 6-month-old baby with wife Alexandra Daddario.)
“Consistency between the households is one of the most important things, and just your kids knowing that they’re supported,” she said. “And that what [our] family looks like may have changed, but the love is still there. I think that’s what they need to feel. So that comes with stability and communication, and I’m lucky enough to be able to foster that.”
The Fast and the Furious franchise star parents a blended family of six children after marrying businessman and father-of-four Mason Morfit in September 2022. She shared that therapy “can be really helpful” when it comes to the combining of households, telling Us she puts a focus on mental health and wellness with her boys.
“My sons really love to open up at the end of the day,” Brewster said. “I take them through [breathing practices]. And, by the way, we all need that, right? I’ll start driving and I’ll get nervous, and then I start doing this breathing exercise and there’s meditation techniques involved. I do the same thing with my little guy. That centers him at the end of the day.”
Brewster was on hand at the Los Angeles River Center and Gardens on Thursday to help hundreds of mothers and their children impacted by January’s wildfires at the Baby2Baby and Crate & Kids event. She volunteered, alongside fellow celebrities Hilary Duff, Lori Harvey and Lauren London, to provide families with the needed items and special gifts.
“What I really love is interfacing with other moms and talking with the kids and helping them out, and giving and donating my time in any way that I can. It’s very fulfilling,” she said. “These are all moms that have been affected by the Altadena fires, primarily, and Crate & [Kids] was generous enough to donate a bunch of essential needs, plus we’re also pampering the moms. We’re giving them jewelry and all these awesome EltaMD suncare [products], all these luxuries. So hopefully it’ll make their Mother’s Day a little bit brighter.”
Brewster hopes to instill in her sons that same desire to give back by teaching them lessons about kindness. She also wants them to push through adversity, emphasizing the importance of “grit and resilience.”
“I feel like it’s really easy nowadays to feel discouraged or beat down but as long as you’re working hard and you have a lot of self-respect, you can get through anything,” she said.
With reporting by Rebecca Ray
