Jennifer Tilly Opens Up About Why She Didn’t Want to Have Kids, Says She Used to Have Dreams of Her Unborn Babies

When Jennifer Tilly decided she didn’t want to have kids, her choices from the real world started to enter her subconscious.

The Chucky star, 66, appeared on The Sherri Show on Thursday, Feb. 27, and opened up about her decision to not have kids. Tilly, who joined this season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, shared that she’d previously discussed the topic on the show.

“I never ever wanted kids. And I had, sort of, not a really great childhood and I felt like, well maybe I’ll make the same mistakes as my mother did because I could see myself making those mistakes,” Tilly explained. “And I was like, you know what, sometimes I make bad choices in men and I didn’t want to put my kids through that.”

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She went on to say that she did end up dating someone who wanted kids, but she felt like he wouldn’t have been a good father.

“But there is such a thing as a biological clock, cause I always had it for my career. Like, ‘Oh, I’m not getting famous fast enough.’ But there is a biological clock, and I had it when I got to be about 37,” Tilly went on. “I would dream I was running through these darkened rooms and they were all crawling with babies and they were grabbing hold of me. They were like, ‘Mommy, mommy, we want to be born!’ And I was slapping them down and I was like, ‘Out of my way! I’m late for the Oscars.’” 

Tilly, who plays Tiffany Valentine in the Chucky universe, reaffirmed that she didn’t want to have kids, saying that instead of giving the world kids, she gave the world her Chucky movies.

“My contribution to the world is [the] Chucky movie. I think that’s a very important contribution. I don’t dream about having a baby that’s going to be the next president or, you know, discover the cure to some incurable disease,” she said. “I dream about people coming to visit my grave and leaving me little Chucky dolls on my grave.”