Leighton Meester on the 'Ultimate Guilt' of Being a Working Mom and Her 'Weekend Away' Role (Exclusive)

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Leighton Meester is getting real about being a working mom. ET's Will Marfuggi spoke with the 35-year-old actress about the challenges of being away from her family when she's on set for work.

Meester and her husband, Adam Brody, share two kids, Arlo, 6, and a son, who was born in 2020.«It doesn't seem like it gets better,» Meester told ET of being away from her kids. «I've been thinking maybe it would, but it doesn't.

And now I've really doubled up on this kid thing. So it's kind of, it's a double whammy of like, 'Well, there's a baby now and he seems like he needs me.'» «Working is the ultimate guilt [because] I want to be here, I'm having fun,» she added. «Of course, I think it's good all around, but this world, our society, everything, it doesn't really give us a lot of space for feeling whole on either end, and feeling good about going to work, or leaving our kids, or being with them.

We can't do that either.»Meester experienced the conflicting emotions when she was filming her new Netflix movie, , in Croatia, and her family could only join her for some of that time. «The first two weeks I had my whole family there.