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"   I was hoping I&amp;#039;d get over it if I saw her in person. The mom crush I&amp;#039;ve had on actress Kyra Sedgwick ever since the first season of her hit TV show, The Closer, goes against everything I believe about celebrity moms. Namely, that you should never compare yourself to someone who likely has one heck of a support staff. And yet the moment she opened her mouth last week at the mommy blogger event I attended, my heart went pitter-patter. After the room full of mom bloggers screened this season&amp;#039;s premiere of The Closer, which airs tonight at 9 p.m. ET on TNT, the event&amp;#039;s host, Beth Feldman of RoleMommy.com, introduced Kyra. Was she all aglow in a Hollywood halo of light, carefully selecting her words of wisdom to impart from on high? No, she was a typical New York City chick. The moment she dropped her first F-Bomb, I realized Kyra is nothing like her TV character, LAPD Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson. And yet I liked her, even if I wanted to wash her mouth out with soap. She was gracious and funny as the folks in charge at the too-cool-for-me-and-my-jeans-skirt club, Ultra, scrambled to get the microphone to work for the Q &amp;amp;amp; A session. Sure, she was gorgeous and insanely fit, but she admitted to a gym addiction, which, she said made her feel guilty. Also, working when her kids were little made her feel guilty. And, some decisions she&amp;#039;s made as a mother made her feel guilty, too. In other words, she&amp;#039;s one of us. Except that she made her confessions in front of a room full of writers. How very brave. Also, refreshing in this era of celebrity spin control. She told us mom bloggers, &amp;quot;Unless you&amp;#039;ve killed someone, honestly, guilt is a useless emotion.&amp;quot; I don&amp;#039;t know if that was Brenda or Kyra talking, but she had a point. You could see the collective weight come off the shoulders of all the moms who probably felt guilty about leaving the kids at home with someone to go into New York City to hang out in a club, watch TV and eat sweets while a Hollywood star chatted with them. When asked what&amp;#039;s the secret to her nearly 20-year marriage to actor Kevin Bacon, she replied, &amp;quot;The first secret is not to be naive enough to think that there is a secret. I think that&amp;#039;s a start. How do we all do it? I got lucky. I really like him.&amp;quot; And I really like her, in the way you can like someone but not really know someone. You know, a Mom Crush. And yes, a Mom Crush on a celebrity, who left in a limo while I tried to hail a cab in the rain. I&amp;#039;m not foolish enough to think Kyra and I have much more in common than motherhood, a love for what we do and 20 minutes in a club in Manhattan. But that&amp;#039;s enough to keep me swooning over her for a while. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a22033/my-celebrity-mom-crush/>