The Perfect Life of Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt

LOS ANGELES - Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt has nothing to complain about.

If you ask Maria Shriver's oldest daughter and Arnold Schwarzenegger on her life, she'll tell you her childhood was great, her career fulfilling, her husband, actor Chris Pratt, is "rock solid" and she has "wonderful parents, brothers and wonderful sisters, incredible friends". She always wanted to be a mother, and now she has two perfect daughters. Even the paparazzi stalking her and Mr. Pratt in cafes and the farmer's market don't bother her that much.

“I feel like be very prepared," she said. recently said she was in the spotlight even more thanks to her marriage to the Marvel star.

Ms. Schwarzenegger Pratt, 33, reflected on the current stage of her life on a recent January morning as she sat on a picnic bench in Will Rogers State Historic Park. It was chilly in LA, and she wore a black parka, high-waisted jeans, and a simple band of pavé diamonds on her ring finger. She answered the questions in a focused and practiced way, as if she were giving a presentation at school. From time to time, she adjusted and readjusted the glittering silver butterfly-shaped claw clip in her shoulder-length black hair.

The park is just a a few steps from her family's former home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, where Ms. Schwarzenegger Pratt lived with her parents, sister, Christina, and two brothers, Patrick and Christopher, until her father became governor from California. The Schwarzeneggers used to walk to the park on weekends to ride and hang out.

Ms. Schwarzenegger Pratt and Mr. Pratt have made their own home together in the Palisades, and they bring their kids to the park whenever Mr. Pratt isn't filming another blockbuster. (The couple are parents to 2-year-old Lyla and 8-month-old Eloise, as well as 10-year-old Jack, Mr. Pratt's son from his first marriage to actress Anna Faris.) Mr. Pratt loves identify the different plant species in the park, Ms. Schwarzenegger Pratt said, pointing to the pepper trees surrounding the picnic benches. "I only know because my husband is a tree," she said.

These days, Ms. Schwarzenegger Pratt said, she spends the most of his days taking care of his daughters and going in and out of his home office to work on different media projects. When she finds something she is passionate about, she often writes a book about it. Her latest passion is sisterhood, and she explored it in an illustrated children's book called "Good Night, Sister," which will be released February 7.

When Mrs. Schwarzenegger Pratt began writing the book two years ago, she modeled the characters from herself and her younger sister, Christina, she said. But she also had another idea in mind: "I started writing the book right after I had Lyla, and I was like, 'Oh, it would be so cute if one day she had a sister.'"< /p>

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