Of course, that doesn’t make them any less important or entertaining. Jessica Biel and Jennifer Garner bonded on the set of 2010’s Valentine’s Day. At the time, Garner was already Mom to daughters Violet and Seraphina and would go on to welcome son Samuel in 2012. So, you can imagine the pearls of parenting wisdom Garner passed along to Biel by the time she gave birth to son Silas in 2015.
Another adorable mom-friend duo? Mindy Kaling and Reese Witherspoon. In 2018, Kaling confessed that Witherspoon actually gave her the best piece of parenting advice she’d received. “Over text message, Reese talked me through how to carry an infant car seat on the airplane. We’re doing so much international travel, and she was giving me really practical advice on how to carry a screaming baby on the plane,” Kaling told People, calling the advice “the most useful!”
Trust, there are tons more stories like that where Tinseltown mamas are concerned. Here are a few of our favorite celebrity mom BFFs.
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Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts
Image Credit: Swan Gallet/WWD/Shutterstock. Need proof that female friendships just get better with time? Look no further than Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts. The Australian stars have seen each other through marriages, divorces, babies and everything in between. Bonus? They love to share throwback photos so we can all live vicariously through their bond.
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Jessica Biel and Jennifer Garner
Image Credit: Eric Charbonneau/Shutterstock. Jessica Biel and Jennifer Garner hit it off on the set of Valentine’s Day, and that friendship has definitely endured. “Her heart is made of gold,” Garner gushed during Variety‘s Power of Women gala. “Once Jessica has committed to something — if it’s to a girlfriend, if it’s to a role, if it’s to a cause — you can count on her to take it the whole way through.”
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Mindy Kaling and Reese Witherspoon
Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety/Shutterstock. Mindy Kaling credits BFF Reese Witherspoon with giving her the best piece of parenting advice she ever received. “Over text message, Reese talked me through how to carry an infant car seat on the airplane. We’re doing so much international travel, and she was giving me really practical advice on how to carry a screaming baby on the plane,” Kaling told People, calling the advice “the most useful!”
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Megan Markle and Serena Williams
Image Credit: Broadimage/Tim Rooke/Shutterstock. Meghan Markle has undoubtedly needed a strong friend throughout the last few years, and Serena Williams has certainly stepped up to the occasion. From shutting down the press to paying secret visits to Meghan and baby Archie, Williams has proven to be the kind of mom-friend we all need.
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Zoe Saldana and Mila Kunis
Image Credit: Mike Nelson/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock. If you need an idea of the bond that moms Zoe Saldana and Mila Kunis share, just look to the tribute given to Zaldana by Kunis during her Hollywood Walk of Fame celebration. “Walk into Zoe’s house and they are screaming, in English, in Spanish, in Italian. It is the loudest love you’ll ever receive in your life. The loudest love I’ve ever heard.
“But it makes sense,” Kunis said. “Because when this girl loves, she is all in. She’s all-in for her family, her friends, and all-in for her work.”
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Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek
Image Credit: Jss Images/BEI/Shutterstock. Listen, you know you love your best girlfriend when you trust them to do your hair and makeup — especially without any light. “I actually did Salma Hayek’s hair and makeup once in the dark,” Cruz revealed to InStyle magazine. “She had a premiere one night and called me like, ‘My glam squad didn’t show up, and the power went out in my house. I need you.’ We need candles everywhere, and I got her ready.” That’s true friendship.
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Sanaa Lathan and Regina Hall
Image Credit: Rob Latour/Shutterstock. Sanaa Lathan and Regina Hall have been friends for so long that they could easily pass for sisters. Having become besties on the set of The Best Man, their bond is over two decades strong — and counting. “It’s so great to kind of go through this journey with someone who gets it, because I think it may seem a lot different from the outside,” Lathan said of being in the entertainment industry with Hall, adding, “I think that’s what we do for each other.”
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Eva Longoria and Victoria Beckham
Image Credit: Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP/Shutterstock. Eva Longoria and Victoria Beckham are such good friends that Beckham asked Longoria to serve as godmother to her daughter, Harper. “Victoria and I are friends in life, so we give each other advice on everything. Everything,” Longoria told Closer Weekly in 2019. “We have sleepovers in pajamas and our hairdresser Kenny brushes our hair until we go to sleep! We met many years ago in LA and she’s now my loyal friend.”
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Kim Kardashian West and Chrissy Teigen
Image Credit: Michael Buckner/WWD/Shutterstock. Their husbands Kanye West and John Legend may not always see eye-to-eye, but that doesn’t stand in the way of Kim Kardashian and Chrissy Teigen’s friendship. Pals since 2010, they even credit each other with helping them get through the struggles of mom life. “I think it’s brought us closer, Kardashian has said. “Because when you’re a mom and you figured it out, you want to tell all your friends.”
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Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba
Image Credit: John Shearer/Invision/AP/Shutterstock. Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba reportedly became fast friends after co-starring in 2010’s The Killer Inside Me, and they’ve been close ever since. Making this mom duo even more FOMO-inducing? Their celebrity moms friend circle also includes Gwen Stefani and Courteney Cox.
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Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu
Image Credit: Broadimage/Shutterstock. They’ve been friends since their Charlie’s Angels days, and fans have gotten to see how Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu have stuck by each other’s sides over the years. In fact, it’s thought that Diaz even honored Barrymore by giving her daughter Raddix the middle name “Wildflower” — the title of Barrymore’s 2015 memoir.
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Blake Lively and Emily Blunt
Image Credit: Dave Allocca/Starpix/Shutterstock. Bet you didn’t realize Blake Lively and Emily Blunt were buddies, did you? They may keep it low-key, but they routinely pop up at events together like Michael Kors’ fall-winter 2018 fashion show. Plus, their husbands — Ryan Reynolds and John Krasinski, respectively— are also pals, making this a parenting squad we’d love to be part of.
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Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood
Image Credit: Matt Baron/Shutterstock. Despite the fact that people are forever trying to pit Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson against each other, they’re actually quite close. They routinely support each other, including in 2018 when Clarkson praised her friend for opening up about her miscarriages. “It’s so important that you talk about it. I know you don’t have to, because it’s a hard thing to do, but it makes women who feel inferior, or feel like something’s wrong with them, it makes them feel comfortable and that people go through it,” Clarkson recalled to ET about an email she sent to Underwood.
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Kelly Rowland, Beyonce Knowles and Michelle Williams
Image Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock. Of course the ladies from Destiny’s Child have each other’s backs in motherhood, too! Rowland even gifted Beyoncé a Swarovski crystal-studded baby bathtub worth $2,500 when Bey gave birth to Blue Ivy. What are friends for, right?
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Leah Remini and Jennifer Lopez
Image Credit: Andrew H. Walker/Variety/Shutterstock. As busy as Jennifer Lopez stays, it’s hard to imagine where she finds time to nurture her friendships. But she clearly does, because she and fellow famous mom Leah Remini have shared an unshakable bond since J.Lo’s ex Marc Anthony introduced them way back in 2004. As Lopez tells it, the two “fell in love right there,” explaining to ET last year, “It was one of those instant chemistry things where you just feel like, ‘I love this person. I love being around this person. This person makes me laugh.”
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Mary J. Blige and Taraji P. Henson
Image Credit: Matt Baron/Shutterstock. Co-stars in the 2009 film I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Mary J. Blige and Taraji P. Henson support each other through the good times and bad. So, when Henson received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Blige was on hand to praise her best friend.
“You have been a total inspiration to me. We meet people in the industry and they’re not nice. I’ve never had a friend that I can call while on set and say, ‘How do I do this as an actress’ and you helped me when I needed help. And in my mind, that’s rare, because people don’t share and you’re a sharer. So thank you for being a giver and a sharer,” said Blige, who went on to call Henson a “true angel” who always brings “sunshine to my darkest day.”
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Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria
Image Credit: : Charles Sykes/Invision/AP/Shutterstock. Given how tight they are, it comes as little surprise Eva Longoria leaned on Kerry Washington when she became a mom to son Santiago. “I have an amazing support group, with my family and with all my friends. Kerry Washington’s basically my doula,” Longoria told ET of the Scandal star, who has two children. The best advice Washington ever gave Longoria? “Follow your own instincts.”
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Michelle Williams and Busy Philipps
Image Credit: Shutterstock. They bonded on the set of ‘90s cult classic Dawson’s Creek, and Michelle Williams and Busy Philipps have been in each other’s corners ever since. They’ve seen each other through unspeakable tragedy (the death of Heath Ledger, father to Williams’ daughter Matilda), countless red carpets, growing their families and more than any of us will probably ever be privy to. “I’m so in love with her. She’s proof that the love of your life does not have to be a man!” Williams told People in 2017.
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler
Image Credit: John Shearer/Invision/AP/Shutterstock. Who doesn’t love the hilarious dynamic duo that is Tina Fey and Amy Poehler? Not only did these two star in the movie Sisters, but they actually consider themselves real-life family. “I think that Tina and I are chosen sisters,” Poehler told PopSugar. “I think we are chosen family, so I think it’s been fun to experience that thing I never got to experience in real life.” Guess that makes them “Auntie” to each other’s kids!
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Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones
Image Credit: Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock. Fellow Harvard alums Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones tend to keep their friendship out of headlines, but it stands to reason they give each other stellar parenting advice (Jones had son Isaiah in 2018; Portman had son Aleph in 2011 and daughter Amalia in 2017).
Speaking to MTV in 2009, Jones gushed of her pal, “[Portman] would fight beasts 10 times her size to protect the people she loves. She is the kind of friend who can sub in and love you through the times when you can’t necessarily love yourself.”
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