'Grey's Anatomy' creator Shonda Rhimes admits she's 'not fully present' at work 'and that is completely OK'

• "Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes admitted she's "not fully present at work."
• She called the "girl boss" brand of feminism "bullshit that men have created."

"Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes has been slowly creating her own work culture within the TV industry while our eyes have been glued to small screens watching shows she's written or produced. But she's not afraid to let people know that she's been human during her revolution.

"I'm not fully present at work," she recently told Time."I don't think anybody who has kids is fully present at work."

Rhimes has three daughters: Harper (18), Emerson (8) and, Beckett (7), whom she adopted.

She admitted that if she's succeeding at work, her private life becomes less of a priority and vice versa.

"The idea of pretending that we have no other life is some sort of fantasy out of the 1950s, where the little lady stayed at home," she said. "I don't have a little lady at home. So if I am excelling at one thing, something else is falling off. And that is completely OK."

Rhimes knows she created a character type in her TV shows, particularly for ABC. "There was a brand that I specifically created for ABC. It has some hallmarks, and one of them is fierce, incredibly successful career women," she said.

But Rhimes refused to label her characters as part of the "girl boss" wave of feminism that began to face criticism in the 2010s. "I think the girl boss archetype is bullshit that men have created to find another way to make women sound bad," she told Time.

The ways she creates characters as a writer and how she leads as the founder of Shondaland are informed by some of her identities, she said.

"I don't want to sound sexist, but I never tried to lead like a man. I was a single mom with kids. The idea that I would lead any differently than my needs required never occurred to me," Rhimes explained.