PREGNANT & famous

Tina Fey at 20th Bunny Hop hosted by Soeciety of MSKCC in New York City

Tina Fey takes a down-to-earth approach to parenting: “I don’t care how many (magazine) covers you’re on. When you’re chasing a three-year-old around with a pull-up (diaper) hoping she won’t poop on the floor, you’re just like every other mom on the planet.”

She felt “stricken with guilt and panic” when her 5-year-old daughter Alice — probably “the only child in her class without a sibling” — would say, “I wish I had a baby sister,” and the Fey recalls how she would “debate the second-baby issue when I can’t sleep.”

“I get up to go to the bathroom and study myself in the mirror,” she writes. “Do I look like someone who should be pregnant? I look good for 40, but I have the quaggy jawline and hollow cheeks of a mom, not a pregnant lady. It’s now or never. This decision can’t be delayed.


“Science shows that fertility and movie offers drop off steeply for women after 40.


“What’s so great about work anyway? Work won’t visit you when you’re old. Work won’t drive you to get a mammogram and take you out after for soup.


“Hollywood be damned. I’ll just be unemployable and labeled crazy in five years anyway.” - Tina Fey, "Bossypants"

 

pregnant mother Sophia Gallegos 37 weeks with twins

"Does pregnancy move the divisive lines between regular mothers and famous mothers, or are there lines?" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories