Laura Dern, 56, and her mother, Diane Ladd, 87, are living legends with long and successful careers.
They are also new authors, having written Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) together.
The duo stopped by SiriusXM on Monday to talk about their book and they both looked radiant.
The Big Little Lies star opted for a blue and white plaid blouse with cream pants and matching shoes. Her long blonde hair was worn in her signature style — parted slightly off the center with long, side-swept bangs.
Meanwhile, the Rambling Rose actress wore a tan knit top, pants, and a tall duster with ivory shoes.
Mother and daughter: Laura Dern, 56, and her mother, Diane Ladd, 87, are living legends with long and successful careers
She wore her hair slicked back from her face in a half up/half down style and wore a long necklace with two large green stones dangling from the thin gold chain.
In 2018, Ladd was given only six months to live after she was misdiagnosed with pneumonia after inhaling poison spray from farms next to her home.
Ended up narrowing of the esophagus. Dern, not satisfied with the diagnosis or prognosis, had her transferred to another hospital where she made a full recovery.
Along the way to Ladd’s recovery, Dern was determined to help her mother rebuild her lung capacity after doctors told her that hiking might help repair the damage done.
Dern was inspired to challenge her mom creatively as they walked, so she recorded their conversations.
Those conversations turned into their new book, a series of personal conversations between an adult daughter and her ailing mother.
Luckily, Ladd turned out to be misdiagnosed and made a full recovery, but the pair came close with all the quality time spent walking and talking.
The telegraph The book review called it ‘the best, truest, and most entertaining Hollywood memoir I have ever read. She is also one of the most loving.
Misdiagnosed: In 2018, Ladd was given just six months to live after she was misdiagnosed with pneumonia after inhaling poison spray from farms next to her home
At one point in the book, the mother-daughter duo recalls Dern’s difficult teenage years.
“Do you feel like I served you?” Ladd asks Dern. “Sure,” Dern replies.
“I bet you think about the time I slapped you,” says Ladd. You spoke to me, and I had a rough day. I was only 10, and I said something really clever to the teens in the fridge… I thought, What am I doing wrong as a parent?
Noting that she was frustrated that Ladd had not apologized for it, Dern noted that she was 14 at the time and reminded her mother that she was “really unhappy at work and wanted to go home and blame someone else”.
Full recovery: Ladd was found to have been misdiagnosed but long walks and conversations formed the basis of their memoirs
Ladd and Dern aren’t afraid to tackle the big topics: love, sex, divorce, and death.
Dern was the second daughter of Ladd and her ex-husband, actor Bruce Dern, 86.
Their first child, a daughter also named Diane, died at the age of 18 months when she fell into a pond and hit her head. Laura was born five years later.
Honey, Baby, Mine: A mother and daughter talk about life, death, and love (and banana pudding) hit bookstores everywhere on April 25.
