One of the best things about being a mom for Julia Roberts is getting to see her
kids do what she never got to do. From family resemblances to budding activism,
here's what those kids have been up to.
Julia Roberts and her cinematographer husband Daniel Moder have three children together:
fraternal twins Hazel Patricia and Finn Walter, born in 2004,
and younger son, Henry, born in 2007. In a 2022 interview with CBS Sunday Morning,
Roberts got quite candid about her family, revealing that she and her husband often
get into friendly debates over who the children most resemble. As she put it,
"I always think that they all look like me, and then Danny comes home from work, and I go, 'Oh,
you, that's who they look like.'"
Pictures of the family substantiate this claim, although Hazel has clearly inherited
her mother's big bright smile. Meanwhile, Finn is a proud redhead, while Hazel is
blonde. And Henry appears to have inherited his mother's natural light brown hair color.
In 2021, Hazel Moder made her red carpet debut at the age of 16 when she accompanied her dad
to France for the Cannes Film Festival. He was there to promote his film Flag Day,
starring Sean Penn and daughter Dylan Penn. Hazel opted for an elegant ponytail and
a yellow lace button-up shirt dress paired with chunky black Mary Janes.
While we may or may not get to see more public appearances from Hazel in the future,
we can be reasonably sure she'll inherit her mother's breathtaking sense of
style. In an interview with People Magazine in 2017, Roberts revealed,
"I have this little space in my house that my husband refers to
as the heritage collection. Things I go, 'I can't get rid of [this], what about Hazel?"
What's especially exciting about this collection is that it includes the
iconic Valentino gown that Roberts wore while receiving her Lead Actress award
for Erin Brockovich at the Oscars in 2001. As Roberts confided to People,
"It's under my bed, in a box."
Julia Roberts didn't have a college experience of her own, but she was very excited to send her
twins off to school. Hazel and Finn reportedly started their undergraduate degrees at the
University of California, Berkeley in the fall of 2022. As an insider revealed to Closer Weekly,
one of the twins is studying fine arts, while the other opted for computer and information sciences.
"To see how it's happening for them is really fascinating, and,
um, yeah, I'm just, I'm excited for them."
With the twins in college, Roberts can now focus more on her career
and the kinds of roles she's most interested in. As the insider put it,
"Acting is her profession, and she'll do it for as
long as she can. She wants to act in films that tell a good story."
Julia Roberts and Daniel Moder are careful about protecting their children's privacy and
ensuring that, despite their mother's fame, they live as normally as possible. In 2020,
they reportedly left Malibu, California, and bought an $8.3 million estate in
San Francisco. The five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath mansion faces
the Golden Gate Bridge. As a close friend of the family revealed to Closer Weekly,
"[Roberts] loves Malibu, but she wanted her children, who are growing up so fast,
to have the experience of a city with a different energy and vibe [...] Her kids
are not movie star kids in San Francisco, where no one cares who your mom is."
"We have pulled it off, and everyone seems good and happy, and, um, yeah, all's well."
A quick look at Daniel Moder's Instagram will have you convinced that his kids have inherited
their father's love for nature. It's clear that Hazel, Finn, and Henry are all quite outdoorsy,
as they keep their blood pumping in a variety of activities. In June 2022, Daniel wished
Henry a happy birthday with a photo of him holding a skateboard, along with the caption,
"This kid is game...up for anything...amazed he is my boy. Stoked. 15 today. Love you."
The Moder kids and their parents have also been known to visit their 32-acre ranch in Taos,
New Mexico, where Roberts says she feels most like
herself. As she revealed during an interview with Oprah Winfrey,
"I always say you can't be in a bad mood here. I don't know if it's New
Mexico or just the mountains, but you can't be silly in a negative way."
Julia Roberts has been an activist practically since birth. She's often used her platforms to
call out injustice, and she's a proud feminist. And she's been passing this legacy on to her
daughter. During a 2018 conversation with Oprah Winfrey for Harper's Bazaar,
Roberts revealed that Hazel was shocked to find out Donald Trump won the 2016 election.
This motivated her to take Hazel to her first Women's March. As she explained,
"I wanted her to feel like she still had a place in the world,
that she could still believe in what she believed in, even though someone else was
now president. It was very powerful for me to have her in a way be my leader into this
space of marching and participating in being a citizen of this country."
From campaigning for clean water to rehabilitating victims of domestic violence,
Julia Roberts is passionate about sharing her fortune and lending a hand. And Hazel
Moder sure seems to have inherited her mother's propensity for philanthropy.
During a 2017 interview with InStyle, Roberts shared some fond memories from
her kids' childhoods. This included the time that Hazel donated her hair to Wigs
For Kids — an organization that makes wigs for children with cancer. As her proud mom declared,
"That's a big deal for a girl who's about to be 13 and has this cascading blond hair that
gets commented on a lot. But she's so good and brave. She sees it as something else."