Although Gilliland stayed home with the kids more often, Smart did her share of parenting, flying home twice a week to be with her sons, she told Yahoo!. Smart, a former smoker, also gave up cigarettes as soon as she learned she was pregnant.
"I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago," Smart told the LA Times in 1998. However, the actress did allow herself the occasional cigarette. "But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay — but not together," she joked. (However, chips and wine doesn't sound like such a bad combination.) Smart also confessed to letting herself enjoy the simple things in life, like cheese. "Lately, I just let myself eat it more because I think, 'Oh, my god, a piece of cheese tastes so good.' I think it's your body telling you something," she added.
As for managing stress, Smart had this piece of advice: "I would say, 'Don't go shopping for houses on the Westside [of Los Angeles],'" she quipped. Although Smart is in the midst of experiencing a career renaissance, her humor and pathos make it easy to see why she became a star in the first place.
