Meryl Streep is an ideal mom: Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts has named Meryl Streep as her role model when it comes to raising well-adjusted Hollywood offspring.

Streep has four children and the Pretty Woman star worked with one of them, actress Grace Gummer, on the film Larry Crowne.

“I thought, here is a source of information. I said, ‘How old were you when you realised your mom was Meryl Streep?’ She said, ‘I think I was probably nine when I put that all together’,” the Telegraph quoted her as telling Vanity Fair.

“I said, ‘Were you cool with it?’ She said, ‘Yeah, it was fine. There was no trauma.’ So that was hopeful,” she said.

The 44-year-old actress said her own twins Finn and Hazel, aged seven, have no idea that she is famous.

Recounting a day out with her children she said, “Somebody noticed me, and then another person noticed. Somebody said as we were walking past, ‘Oh, that’s Julia Roberts’.

“We all kept going, and then Finn said, ‘Yeah, my mom’s Julia Robinson’. That’s what gives you perspective. It could be Robinson, it could be Johnson, because it has nothing to do with me as a person,” she added.