La Rue: Motherhood Is The Most Important Thing

Becoming a mother changed Eva La Rue‘s perspective on career ambition, and playing Natalia Boa Vista on CSI: Miami gives her the opportunity to spend time with her daughter, Kaya.

Kaya is eight years old, and La Rue has a hard time remembering a time when her daughter was not part of her life. “Was there a life before motherhood? I don’t remember! But really, motherhood is the most important thing to me,” La Rue told Celebrity Baby Scoop. “So all the stressful and silly things that I used to worry about before are gone. Or even the big things like career ambition and being self-driven and my lack of patience – all of those things are no longer there. I’m a completely different person in those ways.”

“I love to work,” she clarified, “but at the same time, I don’t have the same motivation to take every job and propel myself forward the way I used to. Now, I just want to make sure that I have enough time at home. I love my job, but I want to make sure that I’m at home with Kaya and not missing out on anything important that she’s doing. I definitely have more patience for the world around me.”

The actress is happy that her Miami schedule makes it easier to spend time with Kaya. “[W]e have seven actors so the workload is really well split up,” she explained. “On a 9-day episode, I, on average, work 4 days out of a 9-day episode. So I have a lot of days off which is fantastic. It’s a 1-hour show, but we don’t take 16 hours to shoot it, like most 1-hour shows. We finish our day in 12 hours. Then we’re off and we have a life.”

Right now, Kaya is interested in cheerleading, gymnastics and riding horses. “She’s a very good horseback rider and I’m thrilled because that is my hobby,” La Rue shared. In fact, the actress practically grew up in the saddle. “We just started doing trail riding together and it’s been so fun. She was taking horseback riding lessons and then we stopped for a while because cheerleading was taking up the majority of her time. We’re moving close to another stable which will be great. We’ve been going a couple times a month trail riding and she’s just awesome. We ride up into the canyon, it’s really pretty. Once you get on top of the mountain you can see all of Los Angeles. It’s beautiful.”

In addition to moving into a new house, La Rue and Kaya are moving into a new phase of their life. As CSI Files previously reported, the actress got back together with former fiancé Joe Cappuccio, and now the pair is planning to get married. They don’t have a date or a venue set, but La Rue already knows that she and Cappuccio are not planning to have any more children. “Well, he has 2 grown kids, an 18-year-old and a 21-year-old,” the actress explained. “We talked about it, but I think we’re probably good where we are. I’m 43 so I don’t think at this age I want to go back to diapers and waking up and all of that. Kaya has our full attention right now and she’s loving it. I think it’s probably good all around for all of us with just one.”