The former 'American Idol' contestant dishes on how she and her loved ones spend the festive season especially after she and husband David Foster welcomed their first child together.
- Oct 27, 2023
AceShowbiz - Katharine McPhee always decorates for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. The 39-year-old actress - who is wed to music producer David Foster, 73, and has two-year-old son Rennie with him - shared that it was a tradition started by her mother to always put the festive decorations up and she has always upheld that tradition even when she was single.
"I've tried to keep that tradition alive. Even without a husband and kids, I always did it. I think that the holidays are such a great time to become childlike and live in sort of a fantasy of your own," she told People.
The former "Smash" star went on to add that these days, her Christmas plans even include a family trip to Disneyland so she can celebrate a "childlike fantasy" during the holiday season. She said, "I started this a couple years ago, after Rennie was born."
"He was really young, but my sister and her kids, my whole family, went to Disneyland during the holiday season. That's again [celebrating] that childlike fantasy. It's such a fun, beautiful day. That's our Disney tradition."
Katharine - who shot to fame as the runner-up on "American Idol" in 2006 and went on to star on Broadway in "Waitress" - recently explained that while she wants to bring her son up to be "nice, polite and obedient," she also favours a more modern approach to parenting that differs slightly from her husband.
She told UsWeekly, "We don't put up with any BS. We don't want him to be an A-hole. He [needs] to be nice, polite, obedient, have his own voice and all that, but just [be] a good kid. We just have different ways of approaching the boundaries."
"I would say I'm more of that newer generation of gentle parenting and explaining and having a bit more patience in just a new way than what I think the older generation was taught how to parent. When I have a different approach, [I] try to get him to be more like my approach without wanting to take away from how he wants to parent."
