For decades, Academy Award-winning actressLaura Dernhas beguiled fans and critics alike with her mesmerizing Hollywood performances.
Offscreen, Dern takes her mother role just as seriously.
The actress shares two children with her ex-husband Ben Harper, Ellery and Jaya.

For seven years, Dern has tackled the challenges of motherhood without a partner by her side.
Her divorce to musician Ben Harper, according toCountry Living, became final in 2013.
With children who are not only similarlygorgeous(those genes!)

Dern confirmed that her ex-husband “wanted him to wait a little bit more.”
The outfit perhaps symbolized Ellery’s rite-of-passage into the grown-up world of high fashion.
She named it “Mom Takeover.”

Like her mother, Harper is committed to seeing social change in Hollywood, and among fellow U.S. teens.