[proust]

She chose making dumb car movies instead of staying home and having kids in her prime years.

[MeanWestTexan]

The article says she worked a few months out of the year, tops, while her husband was gone all year.

[Albion Wilde]

She chose making dumb car movies instead of staying home and having kids in her prime years.

It sounds like she had epilepsy, which caused her doctor to advise her not to try to carry a child. She is one of the people in an income category enabling her to embark on this alternate solution.

I am not necessarily endorsing that choice—I honestly don't know what I would have done in the same circumstances—but I am acknowledging that she or the child could have died if she had tried to carry; and that her movie-making most probably had nothing whatsoever to do with her epilepsy.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

She chose making dumb car movies instead of staying home and having kids in her prime years.

RTFA