Amy Poehler Struggles With Sleep Just Like The Rest Of Us

You'd think the juggling act of raising two young sons, producing, acting and sometimes directing the final season of "Parks and Recreation," hosting the 2013 and 2014 Golden Globes and maintaining her besties status with Seth Meyers and Tiny Fey would be tiring enough. But actress Amy Poehler doesn't curl into bed at night and fall asleep immediately out of pure exhaustion. In her recently released memoir Yes Please, Poehler hilariously chronicles major events in her life with wisdom and ease -- including her early Chicago improv days, kicking ass as a waitress, getting hired for "Saturday Night Live" at age 30, her marriage to comedian Will Arnett, hosting the Globes and giving birth hours before an "SNL" telecast. But she also talks about an unexpected topic that is near and dear to our hearts: Sleep. "The sleep deprivation after children is so real. I liken it to what it must feel like to walk on the moon and cry the whole time because you had heard that the moon was supposed to be great but in truth it totally sucks," she wrote. Poehler started working on NBC's "Parks and Recreation" when her first child, Archie, was just 3 months old, and she recalls falling asleep multiple times at work -- while standing up and with her eyes opened. "I slept wherever I could. Twenty minutes at lunch. During production meetings. In my car. I remember being filled with rage when childless people would talk about brunch," she wrote. She had her second son, Abel, two years later and ...
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