{"id":159018,"date":"2025-03-30T08:11:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T08:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/natasha-rothwells-dogs-keep-her-grounded\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T08:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T08:11:34","slug":"natasha-rothwells-dogs-keep-her-grounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/natasha-rothwells-dogs-keep-her-grounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Rothwell&#8217;s dogs keep her grounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-03-30\" datetime=\"1743322294\" pubdate=\"\">30 March 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Natasha Rothwell says her dogs are an \u201cincredibly grounding\u201d influence in her life.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Natasha Rothwell is brought down to earth by her dogs<\/p>\n<p>\nThe \u2018White Lotus\u2019 actress tries not to let her professional success \u201cdictate [her] worth\u201d and admitted her pets always bring her back to reality.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe told Stylist magazine: \u201cI think it\u2019s a slippery slope when you hang your personal value on your professional accomplishments, particularly when you do something creative for a living.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s hard to walk that line of something that makes you feel complete as a person but also not letting it dictate your worth.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI have two dogs and they\u2019re incredibly grounding. They don\u2019t care what red carpet I\u2019ve been on, they\u2019re like, \u2018Rub my belly. Pick up my s***.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI\u2019m constantly trying to find ways to normalise my life; volunteering at the downtown women\u2019s centre and I love crosswording.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe former \u2018Insecure\u2019 actress was diagnosed with ADHD last year and admitted it has been both \u201clife-changing\u201d and \u201centirely empowering\u201d, though she feels some \u201csadness\u201d at not having had support with things she found difficult when she was younger.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: \u201cMy therapist and psychiatrist both suggested it and I resisted, but last year I saw a neurologist, went through the nine-hour battery of tests and got the official diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt was life-changing, and entirely empowering.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;My resistance wasn\u2019t for the label, but it required looking at my life and recognising all the help I didn\u2019t get because I didn\u2019t know and that was a sadness.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI didn\u2019t want to think that things could have been easier had I known when I was younger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 44-year-old star has gone through \u201cradical self-acceptance\u201d as a result of her diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: \u201cThere\u2019s so much masking that happens when you\u2019re neuro spicy because you\u2019re trying to be normal in front of other people and now that I know it\u2019s part of who I am, it\u2019s radical self-acceptance; that this is me.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t like crowds, I don\u2019t like loud rooms, I love dopamine, my brain works very quickly and my short-term memory is s***.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThere are all these things I no longer apologise for.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cGetting a diagnosis was permission to use the language to announce who I am to people and not change who I am \u2013 to own it as a source of pride instead of being ashamed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/natasha-rothwells-dogs-keep-grounded-1416116.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 March 2025 Natasha Rothwell says her dogs are an \u201cincredibly grounding\u201d influence in her life. Natasha Rothwell is brought down to earth by her dogs The \u2018White Lotus\u2019 actress tries not to let her professional success \u201cdictate [her] worth\u201d and admitted her pets always bring her back to reality. She told Stylist magazine: \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9055],"class_list":{"0":"post-159018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-natasha-rothwell"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}