Susan Haskell Speaks on Home Life

Susan Haskell shares her life with Thorsten Kaye (Zach, All My Children). The couple has two daughters: McKenna, 5, and Marlowe, 1.

So, how does the actress handle such a home life? Soap Opera Weekly talked to the star about it...

Soap Opera Weekly: You've had your nanny since your first baby?

Susan Haskell: No. McKenna and I didn't have a nanny — I did it all myself. Which was kind of neat. I wanted to do that. By the end of my [second] pregnancy I was in bed, and obviously I couldn't be in bed, have Thorsten working and have McKenna running around.

Soap Opera Weekly: Right. That would be a challenge.
Susan Haskell: Difficult. Even with my fantastic friends. We ended up looking for a nanny for the last month-and-a-half. Oh, my goodness, talk about lucky. And what a true blessing she's been. She's like a part of the family now. She's great with the baby. McKenna adores her. And I can trust her.

She knows the whole routine, so it's a matter of simply sitting down with her in the beginning of the week and saying, "Okay, I'm working here, we don't know when, but, sometime that day, and Thorsten's off this day. And Thorsten's mom is going to be here to help put the baby to sleep." We're figuring it out. We thought, "Why not do it while Thorsten's here, and we know we're on this coast, and we have the people who love our kids and are going to help us do it?"

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