Drew Barrymore Covers InStyle, Vows to Never Embarrass Her Kids With Sex Stories (Like Her Mom Did)

He rmother, Jaid, is the author of the book Secrets of World Class Lovers: Erotic Tips & Sensual Stories for a Lifetime of Sexual Fulfillment

By Corinne Heller Oct 09, 2015 6:50 PMTags
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Drew Barrymore will not turn into her mother...when it comes to talking about sex.

The 40-year-old actress opened up to InStyle magazine about her life and parenting. She says that unlike mom Jaid Barrymore, 69, she will not embarrass her and husband Will Kopelman's daughters Olive, 3, and Frankie, 1, with sex stories. Jaid is the author of Secrets of World Class Lovers: Erotic Tips & Sensual Stories for a Lifetime of Sexual Fulfillment

"My own mother, Jaid, wrote a book on sex, and it was the most mortifying feeling in the world," Drew told the magazine, which features her on the cover of its November 2015 issue, out on Oct. 16. "So I know how a child feels when their parents put themselves out there too much, and I will never do that to my daughters. There are some things about your parents you just don't need to know."

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Drew is an author herself. On Oct. 27, she plans to release her third book, Wildflower, which is described as "the first book Drew has written about her life since the age of 14."

Before she was winning awards and winning over fans with roles in The Wedding SingerNever Been Kissed, Barrymore was a child star, appearing in the 1982 movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and underwent some personal turmoil in her adolescent years.

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She talked about her troubled childhood in her 1990 memoir, Little Girl Lost, and in a 2003 appearance on Bravo's Inside the Actor's Studio. Drew has said she smoked her first cigarette at age 9, tried alcohol—champagne—by age 11, smoked marijuana at age 12 and tried cocaine, at a club, at age 13. Her mother then sent her to rehab for more than a year after she "came home drunk and trashed the house."

"I'm not going to pretend to my daughters that I'm pure as the driven snow," she told InStyle. "The best I can do is open up my heart to them. That's soul-baring enough."

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