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Alyssa Farah Griffin is adjusting to being a working mom with a new baby
The View co-host shared her experience on a recent episode of the Behind the Table podcast
She welcomed her first child, a son, with husband Justin Griffin, in February 2026
Alyssa Farah Griffin admits that she struggles with mom “guilt” while juggling her career.
On the Thursday, May 21 episode of the Behind the Table podcast, The View co-host and new mom, 36, opened up to executive producer Brian Teta about how a recent show guest got her thinking about motherhood and balance.
“So, yesterday we had Keke Palmer on, on to happier things, she was open about motherhood and saying that you’re going to have bad days and it’s okay to let your kids see that and show them that you’re human,” Teta, 49, told Griffin, asking if the message was something she resonated with.
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“I swear I was like looking at Keke and I was like, ‘My soul needed this,’ ” Griffin replied.
The I Love Boosters actress, 32, is mom to son Leo, whom she welcomed with ex-boyfriend Darius Jackson in February 2023.
Griffin went on to call Palmer “one of those gems of a person who’s just so wise.”
“I’m struggling right now with being at work and my young son’s home with a nanny,” Griffin continued.
The strategist and former press secretary of the Department of Defense of the United States gave birth to her first child, son Justin Patrick Griffin, Jr., on Feb. 10. She shares her baby boy with her husband Justin Griffin, 37.
“We are so lucky to have Maria, this amazing woman, amazing caretaker who’s a member of our family, like we absolutely love her,” Alyssa said. “But I find myself competing with two different ideas. On the one hand, I literally feel jealous of my beloved nanny ‘cause she’s getting time that I’m not getting with my son.”
“I feel extraordinary guilt that I’m away from him as long as I am because I’m at work during the day and I do celebrity.land in the nights and sometimes in the morning,” she continued. “And then this rational part of my brain that’s like you are working for the life you want to give your child, and you are working because it is showing him an example of what moms and what dads do.”
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She acknowledged that she understands she’s the mom, and that anytime she’s home, Justin Jr. gets all of her attention, “But I feel like I am wrestling with turmoil in my soul of this mom guilt that we project on ourselves.”
The talk show co-host said that it’s “so hard to be away” from her son and that she grapples with thoughts of being “not good enough because I’m missing this moment.”
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Alyssa added that she’s prayed about the situation and talked about it with friends who “can relate and have gone through some version of it, but that’s the thing I’m probably struggling with the most.”
“I want every second with him, but that’s not reality,” she said. “I have a job. I am a working mom. My husband is a working dad. And making peace with that and reminding yourself you’re doing it for the kid.”
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