Molly Sims is a total boss having found success as a model, actress, podcast host and beauty brand founder — but being a mother is the title she cherishes most.
“I think I mom really hard and then I play really hard,” Sims, 53, exclusively tells Us in her cover story, on newsstands now. “I don’t think I do both well all the time.”
Sims questions whether you can really “have it all,” asking, “What is your expectation? What is your out?”
The 2026 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue star — who shares sons Brooks, 14, and Grey, 9, and daughter Scarlett, 11, with husband Scott Stuber — admits, “If you’re constantly putting expectations on an outcome, you’re kind of never really happy.”
Sims, however, tells Us that she tries “really hard” to be the best mom she can be while staying true to herself and her own parenting goals.
“My goal in life is for them not to be douchey and on drugs,” she confesses.
In order to have well-balanced kids, Sims says it takes work and dedication to leading by example. “I run a tight ship,” she reveals, noting that it’s “very hard” to raise kids in Los Angeles because of the “amount of money” and lifestyle that children are exposed to.
“It’s hard to keep them level-headed,” the Yise Beauty founder explains, telling Us that her “biggest concern” is “just keeping them as normal as possible [and] polite as possible.”
Sims says she’s a “big believer in sports” and learning how to be a team player, which she is trying to instill in her children.
The Las Vegas alum adds that she and Stuber, 57, are determined to teach their sons and daughter that hard work pays off — literally and figuratively.
“My parents made me work since I was 14, so I think no one’s gonna give it to you. Our kids, they have to figure it out,” Sims tells Us. “We’ll help them, but ultimately, it’s the person, right? It’s the child.”
She continues, “[We’re] trying to do a really good job of like, ‘If you want it, you have to work hard.’”
Sims points out that her kids see her and Stuber doing their “homework,” whether it’s her reading scripts or the film exec writing “constant notes,” which helps them see firsthand that money doesn’t grow on trees.
“They’re seeing us work. They’re seeing us navigate [our jobs],” she explains. “They’re seeing us tired. They’re seeing us get up and exercise and, you know, I think it’s a lot of work.”
Sims shares that she tells her kids that life takes “hard work with a little bit of luck [and] with a little bit of magic.”
She notes that ultimately Brooks, Scarlett and Grey are “really good kids,” and her husband is “an excellent father.”
The kids, however, are in different phases, so as parents they are constantly ebbing and flowing.
“I have a 14-year-old. He’s going into eighth grade, Brooks, and I have Scarlett, who’s going into sixth grade, and then I have Grey, my biscuit. He is going into fourth grade,” Sims gushes. “They’re all very different. So you kind of have to parent and meet them where they are.”
Sims tells Us that even with the different ages, she and Stuber “really do a great job of trying to be present because it goes so fast.”
Learn more about Sims’ life as a mother of three in the video above — and pick up the latest issue of Us on newsstands now.
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