It's wild to think that all the '90s actors who played teens when we were younger are now all grown up with families of their own. So many '90s stars are parents now, and great ones at that. We frequently look to them for inspiration when it comes to parenting our own kids.
These 10 stars in particular are great moms and dads who know how to toe the line between "fun" parent and laying down the law, and they also understand working parent demands and how to adjust to life with kids in a way that doesn't totally erase who they are as people too.
If there was ever anyone who could "have it all," it's these celebs, and they're totally rocking it.
James Van Der Beek ('Dawson's Creek')
Katie Holmes ('Dawson's Creek')
Like her Dawson's Creek co-star, James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes first rose to fame on the '90s show. She's gone on to have an illustrious career coupled with intense media scrutiny following her marriage and divorce from Tom Cruise, but she takes it all in stride and keeps on living her best life.
Katie Holmes (the mom)
Now that she's no longer with Tom Cruise, Katie is a single mom to her daughter, Suri — and what a mom she is. Even though she's a celebrity, she strives to give her daughter as normal a life as possible, with slumber parties, beach days, and trips to Disneyland. She also focuses on raising her daughter to help others; Katie and Suri even recently went to Greece to help at a refugee camp.
Sarah Michelle Gellar ('Buffy the Vampire Slayer')
For seven seasons, Sarah Michelle Gellar kept people safe from vampires on the classic show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When the series started in 1997, Sarah Michelle was 20 years old. Now, over 20 years later, she's married to her I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scooby Doo co-star Freddie Prinze Jr. with a family of their own.
Sarah Michelle Gellar (the mom)
Sarah Michelle has two kids with Freddie: daughter Charlotte Grace, and son Rocky James. Through raising two little ones, she's encountered a lot of ups and downs, and she has the best advice for parents. "Add 'for now' to the end of every sentence," she told People magazine. "So like 'I'm getting no sleep for now' or 'I can’t button my jeans for now' or 'My kid doesn’t want to listen for now.' It's all going to change and when you look at it that way, it's much less daunting."
Candace Cameron Bure ('Full House')
We first met her when she was just Candace Cameron playing DJ Tanner on Full House. Back then, she was just a kid herself. Now she's raising three of her own — just like her fictional dad, Danny, did. Instead of getting help from Joey and Jesse, though, Candace is parenting her children with her hockey star husband Val Bure.
Candace Cameron Bure (the mom)
Candace has that perfect balance of knowing when to have fun and when to put on the mom hat. She even regularly appears on her daughter Natasha's YouTube channel, and got the "cool" stamp of approval from Natasha herself. "She's like a cool mom," Natasha told Entertainment Tonight, adding that her mom also knows when to lay down the law. "She's hip, but she's strict. Like, she's definitely strict."
