According toThe Hollywood Reporter,Rhimes has three children.

She continued, “No one will ever take advantage of them.

They will always go their own way because they have decided they’re going to.”

Shonda Rhimes

“I have help,” she toldGood Housekeepingin the same interview.

“Admitting that is a service to other women.

Because if you ask someone, “How do you do it all?”

Shonda Rhimes and Daughter

and they say, “I do yoga!”

it makes you think, That’s it?

That’s how your children are clean and you’ve made 50 cupcakes?

I always felt like a hot mess.

However, Rhimes also admits that her daughters are actually what keep her focused every day.

“I get up at 5 a.m. and I hate getting up at 5 a.m.

But I do it so I have an hour and a half to myself before the children wake up.

In other words, in Shonda Rhimes’s world, it’s all about balance.