Trending badgeTrendingPosted 1 hour agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret DownAfter Timothée Chalamet Implied That Being Child-Free By Choice Is "Bleak," Here Are 25 Celebs Who've Gotten Brutally Honest About Not Wanting Kids"I look at my friends with kids, and honestly...some of them seem like maybe they wish they had put a little more thought into it."by Ellen DurneyBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink In a recent Vogue cover interview, Timothée Chalamet raised eyebrows by suggesting that it's "bleak" to be child-free by choice. The context of the quote was that he was recalling his reaction to an interview with someone - whose name he would "definitely" not reveal - "bragging about not having kids and how much time it afforded them to do other stuff." "Holy shit. Oh my God. Bleak," he recalled saying to a friend. Elisabetta A. Villa / Getty Images As you may have seen, Timothée copped a lot of backlash for these comments. And amid the online discourse, some fans speculated that he may have been referencing Seth Rogen, who's one of the most notable celebrities to have discussed the benefits of being child-free. But, it's worth noting that TONS of celebrities have talked openly about the reasons they've chosen not to have kids. So, here's a roundup of stars who are child-free and love it that way. 1. Seth and his wife, Lauren Miller, have been together since 2004 and got married in 2011. And since then, Seth has attributed a lot of his career success to the fact that he and Lauren actively chose not to have kids. Emma Mcintyre / Getty Images "Me and my wife, neither of us were like that. Honestly, the older we get the more happy and reaffirmed we are with our choice to not have kids," he said in 2023. "We are in the prime of our lives. We are smarter than we've ever been. We understand ourselves more than we ever have. We have the capacity to achieve a level of work and a level of communication and care for one another, and a lifestyle we can live with one another that we've never been able to live before, and we can just do that and we don't have to raise a child - which the world does not need right now." Eric Charbonneau / Getty Images Notably, Seth has faced backlash for sharing his views on child-free life, and he followed up earlier this year by telling critics: "You should only have kids if you really want kids, and we just don't really want kids...I look at my friends with kids, and honestly, I feel like some of them are incredibly happy and fulfilled, and some of them seem like maybe they wish they had put a little more thought into it. I just didn't want to be one of those people." Vivien Killilea / Getty Images 2. Tracee Ellis Ross is child-free and single in her 50s - and very happy that way. "I do not believe that my life is unworthy because I don't have children," said during an appearance at the New York Times Well Festival this year. "I do not believe that my life is unworthy because I do not have a man or partner. I do believe that I mother all over the place. I do believe that I do very valued things in the world and for people that I care about and love." Gilbert Flores / Getty Images 3. In a 2019 interview with Elle magazine, Miley Cyrus opened up about the judgment that comes with not wanting kids, saying: "People feel sorry for you, like you're a cold, heartless bitch who's not capable of love...
Why are we trained that love means putting yourself second and those you love first? If you love yourself, then what? You come first." Monica Schipper / Getty Images In the same interview, she stated that her desire to live a child-free life has largely been influenced by climate change. "We're getting handed a piece-of-shit planet, and I refuse to hand that down to my child," she said. "Until I feel like my kid would live on an earth with fish in the water, I'm not bringing in another person to deal with that." Emma Mcintyre / Getty Images 4. Speaking of Miley, her godmother, Dolly Parton, has also been very vocal about not having her own children. Dolly, who was married to her late husband, Carl Dean, for 60 years, said during an interview with Oprah in 2020 that not having kids allowed her much more freedom in life. Kevin Winter / Getty Images "I didn't have children because I believed that God didn't mean for me to have kids...so I could do things like Imagination Library [her book gifting program]," she said. "Because if I hadn't had the freedom to work, I wouldn't have done all the things I've done. I wouldn't be in a position to do all of the things I'm doing now." Knowing she made the right decision, Dolly added: "I've made sacrifices, but I think, like I said, I believe what I know I'm supposed to do." Jason Kempin / Getty Images 5. In an interview with the Guardian in 2013, Christopher Walken said he would "absolutely not" have the career he has today if he and his wife, Georgianne, had had children. "I'm sure many of the kids I knew as a child would have continued in showbusiness, b