Amanda Seyfried, star of “Mamma Mia!”, has transformed her farm into a sanctuary for elderly, sick and abandoned animals

Away from the red carpets and the flashes, Amanda Seyfried – actress famous among others for the role in Oh mama! – he built his real stage among pastures, stables and ponds. In an interview with Voguerecounted his life on the farm-refuge in upstate New York, a place he defined without hesitation as “my dream”.

A non-profit animal rescue organization

Not a simple country property, but a reality registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, dedicated to the recovery of often elderly, sick or abandoned animals. With her are her husband, actor Thomas Sadoski, and their children, Nina and Thomas. Together they share a daily life made up of wake-ups at dawn, muddy boots and constant care.

The property is home to six horses, a pony, a donkey, donated goats, chickens of all breeds as well as cats rescued from shelters and pond and barn ducks. There is no shortage of tough moments: nocturnal predators, sudden frost, elderly animals that require constant attention.

Horses, he explains, almost always arrive with a complicated history: physical problems, advanced age, trauma. She rarely rides them. He prefers to “hug them from the ground”. A gesture that says a lot about his relationship with animals: less performance, more care.

From the city to nature: a choice of balance

The decision to leave New York City wasn’t dictated by motherhood. The actress had already chosen the countryside years before, convinced that privacy, silence and nature were essential for her stability. To the magazine Forbes he had confided that living in the woods of the Catskills was “essential for mental health”.

Rural life, however, is not an idyll. During a severe ice storm, the family had to abandon their unheated home and move into the horse barn, the only building powered by a functioning generator. Five degrees below zero, small children, late at night. “That’s what happens when you choose nature” the actress downplayed.

A dream that smells of hay

In an era in which many celebrities chase visibility, Seyfried builds a project that goes in the opposite direction: acceptance, responsibility, rooting. On the farm the actress finds balance between the frenetic energy of the sets and the slow pace of the rescued animals. And perhaps it is precisely between the noise of the chickens and the breathing of the horses that Amanda Seyfried found her true definition of success.

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