Amanda Seyfried: ‘I feel respected; it’s not just a foothold – it’s a seat at the table’
telegraph.co.ukhigh fashion, shuttling between film sets, television appearances and photo shoots. At home, on a farm in Upstate New York, where she lives with her husband, the actor Thomas Sadoski, and their five-year-old daughter and one-year-old son, Seyfried can be found in sweatpants feeding goats, shovelling horse manure and driving around her nearly 30-acre property in an electric Ford pick-up truck.
It's an unusual collision of worlds but one that allows 36-year-old Seyfried and her children (whose names she doesn't choose to share) a sense of perspective that wouldn't have been possible if they'd put down roots in, say, Los Angeles - no matter how much sense that would have made for her career.'Growing up with animals can teach you about life and death in a very literal, not as heartbreaking way,' she says. 'They have shorter lifespans and they pass away and it's natural.
If you live on a farm and you have that many animals, you're going to lose a lot of them.'How many creatures does she currently own?
Seyfried narrows her eyes in concentration and starts counting on her fingers. 'We have five goats, two big horses in the paddock and four in the other paddock.
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