Jill Wagner Reflects on Dad’s Advice: ‘Work Hard’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Great American Family actress Jill Wagner is sharing some of the life lessons her father taught her.
“I’ve spent a lot of time with my father, and he imparts wisdom probably every single time I am with him,” she said in a video for Great American Community. “He’s one of those people where you meet him, and you don’t forget him. And most people love him. He’s just a — he’s a very wise person, he’s been there, done that.”
The first piece of advice from Wagner’s dad?
“‘Always be who you are,’” she shared. “He lives by this…it didn’t matter if my dad was talking to the President of the United States or he was talking to somebody who worked at the gas station. He treated everybody the exact same. Don’t ever change who you are based on your situation.”
Wagner’s next tip is honesty: “It is always the best policy.”
“Work hard. Work hard while you can and while you’re young,” the actress concluded. “Don’t waste your day away sleeping on the couch, not being productive — use those years of youth and good health to do something with your life.”
Wagner often talks about the importance of family. She shares daughters, Army Gray and Daisy Roberta, with her husband, David Lemanowicz. Wagner also co-parents stepdaughter Lija Lemanowicz with David.
“I am having a strange moment where I am missing my babies being inside my belly. I don’t miss being pregnant, but rather the fact that while they were inside me I could protect them,” she wrote in a recent Instagram post. “I worry about their future. I worry about the kindness of people being something of the past. I worry that the world I leave behind will be a struggle for them.”
Wagner continued. “[But then] I remember that people do amazing things for one another all the time, it’s just not as important to plaster all of the news as it doesn’t get the ratings they require. I guess it gives me some peace in knowing God has our back and will right all of the wrongs in the end. Until then, I’ll try to believe that future generations will discover that love is much easier to feel than hate, and that being kind is a reward not a burden.”
The actress spoke more about her love of being a parent in another video for GAC.
“They really, really are truly a gift from God,” Wagner said of her children. “It seems like I’m getting to live a whole other life through them. You know, they always say, ‘kids can age you’ but, I think they can keep you young because you get to experience all of the stuff again. It makes you feel like a kid again to see everything through them and to watch how they interact with life. What a blessing.”
Movieguide® previously reported:
Actress Jill Wagner recently opened up about her thoughts on motherhood, including how viewing the world through her children’s eyes keeps her young.
Wagner spoke about her daughter Army, who was born in 2020, and how she is starting to understand what being a mom is.
“In the last couple weeks she’s really started asking me questions like, ‘So, Grandma Juju is your mom’ — my mom, Judy,” Wagner explained. ”It’s just the joys of being a mom and seeing them grow.”
Her youngest daughter, Daisy, has just started talking and the actress called the milestone “an amazing thing.”
“[It] just such a short amount of time,” Wagner said of her daughters’ childhoods. “I mean really, if you think about it, my stepdaughter Leah, she’s getting ready to be a teenager soon and it seems like the little girl that I once knew is gone.
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