{"id":300677,"date":"2023-10-26T08:41:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=300677"},"modified":"2023-10-29T22:07:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T03:07:09","slug":"mira-sorvino-motherhood-changed-life-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mira-sorvino-motherhood-changed-life-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino says motherhood changed her life ‘for the better’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mira Sorvino, the Academy Award-winning actress known for movies like “Mighty Aphrodite,” “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion,” and most recently, “Sound of Freedom,” spotlighted her children in a performance on “Dancing With The Stars.” Sorvino was competing on the reality show alongside pro Gleb Savchenko until she was eliminated this week \u2014 and her choice for a “most memorable year” tribute was an easy one.<\/p>\n

Sorvino told Entertainment Tonight<\/a> (ET) that she and Savchenko would recreate the iconic “Romy and Michele” dance for their contemporary routine, and as in the movie, it was set to Cyndi Lauper\u2019s “Time After Time.” But they had a special guest star, too: Sorvino’s daughter, Mattea Backus.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so excited because, this week, I get to live out another dream which is to dance with my daughter,\u201d she said. “Gleb choreographed this incredible dance to ‘Time After Time’ about the love between parents and a daughter and, you know, her going away and coming back but love always returns and we always end up together in the end. And it’s really beautiful.”<\/p>\n

For her dance, Sorvino chose the year 2004 to celebrate. “That’s the year I got married to my husband, Christopher Backus, and that’s the year we had our first child, Mattea, and my life changed forever for the better,” she said. “My heart just grew 10 times and I just love my children, my family, so much. And to have my daughter here today, it’s just mind-blowing!”<\/p>\n

She and her husband, actor Christopher Backus, are still together nearly 20 years later, and have four children together.<\/p>\n

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