Naomi Watts is a doting mother to her two sons, Sasha and Kai. Watts and her former partner, Liev Schreiber, welcomed Sasha in 2007 and Kai in 2008, before their 11-year relationship concluded in 2016. Although their separation surprised many, both Watts and Schreiber have emphasized their commitment to amicably co-parenting. “We’re doing things very differently. I’m pretty proud of us, corny as that may sound,” Watts revealed to Net-a-Porter in August 2019. “We’ve made it our absolute priority to be good and kind to each other and we’re absolutely committed to that.” The ex-couple has continued to reunite for family events, appearing together in a TikTok video with their children in 2020, and celebrating Kai’s middle school graduation in 2022, joined by Watts’ now-husband Billy Crudup and Schreiber’s now-wife Taylor Neisen.

Despite striving to be a “supermom,” Watts sometimes finds balancing her acting career with motherhood challenging. She confessed to Hamptons magazine in November 2020, “Sometimes you feel like you’re a supermom—baking cake, playing board games, and teaching them how to use the vacuum cleaner; you’re just fully on top of it. And other times, you’re like, ‘Oh God, just let me hand them the devices and let me get done what I need to do,’ you know?” She added, “That’s just the reality, and you have to forgive yourself on the days that you need to take that time for yourself and create that space.” Here’s a deeper look into the lives of Naomi Watts’ children, Sasha and Kai, from their early years to their latest milestones.