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Home › Articles › Special Features › Guiding Light's Laura Wright

Guiding Light's Laura Wright

Balancing a Career and Kids with a Crazy Schedule That Works

By Belinda Clarke

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Back in New Jersey, where the family resides during the week, Wright spends most of her free time with her family. On her days off, she makes the kids' breakfast, runs errands and does fun things at home with her children, such as baking cookies and, in her son's case, playing with balls and trucks. "He's only 17 months, but I swear the affinity for balls and things with wheels is inborn," she says. "It's a very normal life when I'm not working."

Though her husband isn't involved in show business (he's an architect), he accompanies Wright to events like any other husband, except for this year's Daytime Emmy Awards, which he chose not to attend. "This sort of thing isn't fun for him because I am all about the socializing, and I am running around the whole time talking to people," Wright says. "He did join me later for the after-ceremony parties, which is the most fun part anyway."

Keeping Fit
For exercise, Wright takes classes in Tae Kwon Do and also does yoga to help keep her looking and feeling fit. While pregnant with her son, she did Tae-Bo for eercise up until her 7th month. "At 7 months, I realized that I was just too pregnant to be doing the requirements for Tae-Bo," she says. She says she found it easier to lose the weight after her second pregnancy because she didn't gain as much the second time around. "Luckily for me, I had both of my children around the holidays so I had the benefit of bulky sweaters to help ease gracefully back into my normal size."

Now, she works out whenever she can, both at work and at home. "I feel pretty good, but like most women, I'd like to lose 5 pounds," she says. On her days off, she tries to fit in time for a Tae Kwon Do class. Though her employer offers in-studio classes, which she has attended on occasion, she chooses to do her yoga in her dressing room. She swears by Bryan Kest's Power Yoga videos.

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