Moore's partner through it all is Freundlich, whom she married in 2003, when Cal was 5 and Liv was 1 (seven years after the couple got together, on the set of The Myth of Fingerprints). "It was just a way of making it official, of declaring ourselves a family," she says. Of the two of them, the actress reluctantly admits, she's "not the fun one." In fact, Moore claims her greatest asset as a parent is the ability to be essentially invisible. "I'm really good at not embarrassing them," she says. "Maybe their father's more fun, but he's really embarrassing. Most of the time, kids like you to be there, to be Mom, but in the background."
Nonetheless, Moore's job does allow her the occasional chance to impress her kids. Liv visited the set when the actress was playing the Little Mermaid and being shot by photographer Annie Leibovitz for an upcoming Disney ad. "They had this Ariel music on full-blast, and I was sitting on a rock, pretending to sing, with my tail and my hair flowing," she says. "Liv walked in and just gasped and ran up to me on the rock." Like a scene in a movie, the moment brought everyone in the room to tears.
