Shonda Rhimes turned her latest Bridgerton event into a heartwarming family outing, posing with all three of her daughters at the season four premiere in Paris.
The 56-year-old TV impresario has kept her personal life largely out of the public eye but made an exception for Wednesday’s event at the Palais Brongniart.
She posed proudly with her adopted daughters Harper, 22, and Emerson, 12, as well as her youngest girl Beckett, 11, whom she brought into the world via surrogate.
For the latest Bridgerton premiere, the show’s creator modeled a dazzling metallic gown that featured fine pleating and an extravagant cape redolent of the 1980s.
Her waistline was cinched in to emphasize her trimmed-down frame, a decade after she lost more than 100lbs because of her health concerns.
Wearing her hair down in elegantly teased waves, she brought out her luminous complexion with makeup as she hit the red carpet for her hit series.
Shonda Rhimes is pictured with her daughters Harper (left), 22, Emerson (right), 12, and Beckett (second from right), 11, at the Paris premiere of season four of Bridgerton
For the latest Bridgerton premiere, the show’s creator modeled a dazzling metallic gown that featured fine pleating and an extravagant cape redolent of the 1980s
Rhimes never married and has been bringing up all her children as a single mother – though she confessed last year that her view of matrimony might be evolving.
‘So I’d never been a person who thought about getting married. I was a person who, I always knew I was going to be a mom,’ she said on Call Her Daddy.
‘I really value being independent. I really value being on my own,’ she said, adding that the experience of being engaged once made her feel ‘suffocated.’
Rhimes also observed that people in her life were ‘more happy for me’ over her engagement than because of her professional accomplishments or the arrival of her children – a distinction that gave her serious pause at the time.
‘I was like: “I have a frickin’ Peabody Award.” Nobody cared. They’re like: “You have a man who wants to marry you,”‘ Rhimes recalled.
‘It felt really threatening to my whole identity that that’s where people were going to see my value. And now I think I’m – that’s because I wasn’t necessarily comfortable in my own skin, probably,’ reflected the Scandal creator.
Now, however, she feels ‘very comfortable in my skin’ and ‘very comfortable with what I’ve accomplished, what I haven’t accomplished, who I am as a woman.’
As a result, she is ‘completely comfortable with the idea that I could meet somebody and spend the rest of my life with somebody and marry them,’ because she no longer fears that ‘who I am is going to be taken away from me, or that I’m going to have to compromise pieces of my career or what I’ve accomplished or what I want it to be.’
The 56-year-old TV impresario has kept her personal life largely out of the public eye but made an exception for Wednesday’s event at the Palais Brongniart
Rhimes never married and has been bringing up all her children as a single mother – though she confessed last year that her view of matrimony might be evolving
Rhimes, who along with Bridgerton created such hit shows as Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, adopted her older two daughters and brought her third into the world via surrogate
A decade ago, Rhimes shared that her life with her daughters contributed to her decision to turn around her health and lose a whopping 117lbs.
‘I have little kids, guys, and I really thought like I might be dead in 10 years,’ she said while being interviewed by Robin Roberts for 92NY.
‘Like that’s how bad I felt. And I couldn’t, I couldn’t put my 20lb kid on my shoulders and run around, which I should have been able to do.’
When she lost the weight and was finally able to dash about with her daughter perched on her shoulders, she experienced ‘such a moment of both relief and revelation for me that it’s one of those memories I’ll take with me forever,’ she said.
‘Like that moment her joy and me sort of having done it and feeling like: “Oh my God, I feel myself again,”‘ the Private Practice creator remembered.
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