American Housewife Katy Mixon Shares Thoughts on Being a Role Model for Moms
Katy Mixon stars at ABC’s American Housewife, Katy Otto. Playing the role as one of America’s favorite mother’s she has the chance to be a role model for moms across the country. On a recent press trip, I had the chance to interview Katy and she opened up about what this means to her.
“It brings tears to my eyes. It’s like one of the most special like, I’m so emotional. There’s so many emotions, but it brings tears to my eyes. [I am] grateful and having the time of my life.”
She continued describing what it feels like to play this TV mom role. “It’s so special to be in a role, be given a role. First of all, be able to do what you love to do. To be given the opportunity to do what you love to do is quite incredible. It’s just the biggest gift in the world.”
Katy continued with her passionate eyes telling me she truly meant her words, “To have people be able to receive it, or relate to it, would be like, ‘Ah, so that character, like that’s totally me.’ That’s just the best thing in the world. So I am in a new dimension, I’ve never played a mom with three children. So that’s been quite special. To be able to do that on camera and evoke emotion, or evoke, you know, something like that.”
“I’m such a big fan of it too. It doesn’t – it’s such a mom thing. It relates so much to moms.” Katy continued as she described how she knew this was the perfect role for her. “What was so special was, I knew in the beginning when I signed onto it, I felt like it didn’t matter what gender you are and what background you come from. Everybody relates to insecurity.”
“No matter whether you’re from Kansas, from Oregon, from Miami, from Westport. Everybody’s got their Westport, everybody’s got their little, their town, their situation that they’re like, ‘I don’t wanna this today and be in front of these people.’ People have that, so that is, that’s been kinda my anthem on the show.”
Katy is soon to be a mom in real life and its clear she will be an exceptional one. You can watch her in Real Housewife on ABC Tuesdays at 8:30/7:30c.
Read my full interview with Katy Mixon.
