Julia Roberts’ Family Photos With Her 3 Kids and Husband Danny Moder Will Run Away With Your Heart

Julia Roberts’ nest may be empty but her heart remains full as mom to now all-grown-up 21year-old twins Phinnaeus and Hazel and their younger brother Henry, 18.

Julia Roberts booked her ticket to paradise the minute she became a mom.

“By the time we had kids, I had accomplished things and felt secure about that part of my life,” the Oscar winner told the Wall Street Journal in 2014 about tapping the brakes on acting after welcoming twins Phinnaeus and Hazel with husband Danny Moder in 2004. “I was so joyful moving into the family phase of my life in a sincere way. For a long time, they weren’t even aware I had a job because I was home so much.”

Son Henry rounded out the family in 2007. And though Roberts has noted with a touch of bittersweetness that her and Moder’s Malibu home is roomier these days since he left for college, the actress continues to relish the most important role she’s ever played.

“I know everyone thinks their kids are great, well… I think my kids are great,” Roberts said on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert in October. “I love hanging out with them and spending time with them.”

But first it was meeting her cinematographer husband, whom she married on July 4, 2002, on the set of her 2001 film The Mexican that changed everything for the actress.

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“When I think about what makes my life my life, and makes sense and just shine inside of me, it’s him,” she told Harper’s Bazaar UK in 2017. “Everything has come from that for me.”

Everything includes her close bond with Finn, Hazel and Henry, who may not have initially known that their mom was one of the most famous women in the world but eventually got the memo.

“It was like, ‘You’re famous?'” she recalled in 2018 to Oprah Winfrey of her kids’ fateful realization. “And I said, ‘I think a lot of people might have seen the movie that I’m in or might know who I am.’ Maybe an hour goes by. ‘Are you more famous than Taylor Swift?’

While Roberts has credited her prolific, lucrative career for the luxury of being able to stay at home as much as she wanted when her kids were growing up, she realized that getting to see her work would also be an important lesson for them.

Julia Roberts, Phinnaeus, Hazel, Henry Moder

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“So much of my children’s younger life they would see their dad go off and I would work a little, but they almost didn’t notice,” the Pretty Woman star told the New York Times Magazine in 2022. “It was like I was only gone when they were napping or something. But as they get older, and particularly with my daughter, I do have a sense of responsibility for showing my children that I can be creative and that it’s meaningful to me.”

But overall, as she put it on CBS Sunday Morning in 2022, “The life that I have built with my husband, the life that we’ve built with our children, that’s the best stuff. To come home at the end of the day, triumphantly, to them.”

See the sweetest scenes from the life Roberts and Moder have built with their three kids: