Rita Wilson talks putting her career on pause to raise her kids, says she doesn't see it as a 'sacrifice'

Rita Wilson discusses taking a step back from her career to raiser her two kids Chet and Truman, whom she shares with husband Tom Hanks.

"I slowed down my work because I really wanted to be the mom that was there when they got home, drove the carpool and did all those things," Wilson said. "Tom was also working a lot, so we would travel with him. If both of us were working and not home, my kids would have been affected. I wouldn't call slowing down my career a sacrifice, I would call it a choice." Lori Bashian is an entertainment production assistant for Fox News Digital. 

Both her and Hanks' careers were just beginning to take off when they married in 1988, the same year his breakthrough role in the movie "Big" hit the big screen. At the time, Wilson had just started to make her way into the film industry in movies like "Sleepless in Seatle" and "That Thing You Do!"