By DEIRDRE DURKAN-SIMONDS U.S. ASSOCIATE SHOWBUSINESS EDITOR
Emma Stone might have two Oscars on her shelf, but at home, she’s more likely to be found baking cookies and watching Bluey with her daughter, Louise Jean.
The La La Land actress, who welcomed her daughter, four, with husband Dave McCary in March 2021, is famously private.
She’s never posted about Louise Jean on social media — in fact, Stone, 36, is not on social media at all — and even kept her pregnancy under wraps at the time.
But in a new interview with Vogue, she offered a rare, heartfelt glimpse into her life as a mom, complete with pumpkin oatmeal desserts and cartoon marathons.
‘There’s nothing I feel luckier about,’ Stone says of her little girl, reportedly named after her great-grandmother Jean Louise. ‘She’s the greatest gift of my life, for sure.’
The star has fully embraced life’s quieter moments with her mini-me, from making memories in the kitchen to watching the Bluey episode, Sleepytime, countless times.
Emma Stone might have two Oscars on her shelf, but at home, she’s more likely to be found baking cookies and watching Bluey with her 4-year-old daughter, Louise Jean
Close friend and Superbad co-star Martha MacIsaac praised Stone for parenting with ‘grace.’
‘Motherhood can be so difficult, and she’s handling it with grace,’ MacIsaac shares, adding that she even FaceTimed Stone during both of her labors. ‘Her medical advice is very sound.’
After giving birth in 2021, Stone took a step back from Hollywood, but she’s now returning to the big screen with upcoming films Eddington and Bugonia.
Still, motherhood has shifted how she chooses projects.
‘It’s streamlined everything,’ she explains. ‘It’s a clichéd thing to say, but it changes everything. And simplifies everything.’
Before signing onto a film, she now asks herself whether it’s worth being away from her daughter for long stretches.
That shift has also deepened her craft.
‘I do think it unlocks different things,’ Stone says when asked if being a parent has made her a better actor. ‘I don’t know if it’s specifically that, but I feel everything I could possibly feel, because everything has exploded.’
But in a new interview with Vogue , she offered a rare, heartfelt glimpse into motherhood, complete with pumpkin oatmeal desserts and cartoon marathons; pictured in 2022
‘There’s nothing I feel luckier about,’ Stone says of her little girl, reportedly named after her great-grandmother Jean Louise. ‘She’s the greatest gift of my life, for sure’ (seen in June 2025)
Stone even gave her daughter a sweet shout-out at the 2024 Academy Awards, where she won her second Best Actress award for Poor Things.
Just days before Louise Jean’s third birthday, Stone told the audience, ‘And, most importantly, my daughter, who’s gonna be three in three days and has turned our lives technicolor. I love you bigger than the whole sky, my girl.’
In 2021, Stone called motherhood ‘very exciting.’
When asked by Mark Heyes how lockdown had been for her, she replied: ‘. I feel lucky with what lockdown has been but it has been an insane year.’
She shares Louise with her comedian husband, who she wed in 2020, four years after they met when she hosted Saturday Night Live.