Teri Hatcher's top priority in life is to be a good mother to her child. The Desperate Housewives actress considers her role as a mother to her daughter to be the more important than her role as Susan in the television series, and she wants to spend as much time as possible with Emerson Rose, who is nine. Teri explained, "I have enough difficulty balancing doing the show for ten and a half months with being a mom the way I want to be." The 42-year-old stayed at home with Emerson for five years, so it hasn't been easy adapting to her new schedule: "This is a serial problem for mothers. We're trying to be everything all the time... And it's too much." | 
