“We have a phone basket that we use to remove them all.” That is how Amal Clooney described the household rule at the family’s English home in a Glamour interview published in July 2025, when she was 47. Her point was that privacy has to be built on purpose. “Creating private moments and spaces has become increasingly difficult,” she said.
She and George Clooney keep their twins, Ella and Alexander, out of public view. “We do not make them public, we do not post photos or videos that portray them,” she told the magazine. She wants to “minimize the impact on our children,” and says families need the right balance between time alone and time with friends, so that children feel they can talk openly.
George Clooney has made the same case. He told GQ that he and Brad Pitt can no longer appear in public without paparazzi following. “I want to protect my children,” he said.
Bangkok remarks
On Tuesday, June 9, Amal Clooney spoke at a Cartier Dialogues event in Bangkok about the other side of the equation: what marriage did to her working life. She married George in 2014. Before that, she said, her professional and personal lives stayed apart. “Then I got married and that changed quite a lot.”
At first she worried about appearances in court. She could not be seen in a certain dress, she thought, because she would be in front of a judge on Monday. That feeling faded. “If you’re good at what you do, that is going to shine through or not,” she said. She would not let it stand in the way of things important to her family or her relationship.
She also said it had been easier when she chose her own level of exposure.
The couple have shared work through the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which has provided legal help to girls and women in poorer countries, in Africa and elsewhere. Clooney singled out Malawi, where she said one in 10 girls under 15 is forced into marriage and only about 800 lawyers practise.
Children changed the foundation’s field work too. George Clooney said he once liked dangerous places such as the Nuba Mountains, Darfur and Abyei. “Amal and I both had to change our goals on where we would go,” he said.
Asked by the Los Angeles Times about his claim that they have never argued, he answered, “That’s true.” Marrying later in life made the difference, he said. “I was 52.” He added that he had not planned to marry again or have children. “Everything changed because I met this incredible person.”
Sources
- George Clooney's wife Amal says life was 'easier' before marrying him
- Balancing Public Life and Privacy
