Rosie Huntington-Whiteley believes moving back to the UK has been a "grounding experience" after living in Los Angeles.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Jason Statham are much happier since moving back to the UK from Los Angeles

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Jason Statham are much happier since moving back to the UK from Los Angeles

The 37-year-old model/actress and her movie star partner Jason Statham, 57, spent many years in California before moving back to their home country in 2020 with Rosie revealing the couple wanted their two children - Jack, seven, and Bella, two - to grow up away from the spotlight.

She told the Telegraph newspaper: "Living back in the UK has been a really grounding experience for us. The fact that we can walk out of our front door and go and get a coffee and a loaf of bread [without paparazzi intrusion].

"We’d leave our home in LA and there’d be five cars following us down the block to the gym. Both Jason and I felt like it was really important for our children to not be impacted by our line of work.

"We wanted our kids to have a childhood away from cameras as much as we could."

She went on to reveal the couple have promised not to show their children's faces on social media or take them to any red carpet events - because she wants them to be able to choose whether they are in the public eye or not.

Rosie explained: "We made a rule that we wouldn’t share their faces on social media, and we’re not going to walk down the red carpet with them.

"Because I’ve seen that. I’ve seen children of celebrities whose parents didn’t give them that choice. It’s Jack’s choice and it’s Bella’s choice, whether they live in the public eye. If they want to, that won’t be a problem. But I just always feared my son turning round to me one day and saying, 'You and Daddy didn’t protect me, I don’t want this'."

It comes after Rosie admitted she keeps a balance between her work and home life by setting rules that mean she doesn't take on jobs during the school holidays.

Speaking on the 'Reign with Josh Smith' podcast, she explained: "I think creating boundaries is, as a mum, a real struggle … For me when I'm with my children I try to be really present. When I go to work, I try to be really present, but there's not a fine balance.

"There are periods where I'm really wanting to work more or, you know, I'm away and I've really missed the children. And then I'll know I come back and I clear time.

"So what's great is Jack is in school now, I make sure I take off all of the holidays, which is actually an enormous amount of time but that's great because it allows me to really have these periods of time where I can very much focus.

"And it’s the small things as well, like day to day, like making breakfast together, the school run, school pickup, bedtime, bath time, story time, those moments, sitting down, eating together, going to the park and just making sure I’ve got those moments in there.

"As Jack's getting older, my daughter is two, but as he's getting older … it's finding those little things where you build that connection with them every day."

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