Mommy guilt is real, y'all.
Hilary Duff just spoke about the immense guilt she experienced while pregnant with baby #2.
Things got so bad that the star even once questioned, "How do I reverse this?"
Mommy guilt is real, y'all.
Hilary Duff just spoke about the immense guilt she experienced while pregnant with baby #2.
Things got so bad that the star even once questioned, "How do I reverse this?"
When the 32-year-old first gave birth to Banks, the 1-year-old baby girl she had with husband, Matthew Koma, in 2018, she shared how breastfeeding was impacting her mentally.
"Last week was my last week nursing Banks (my six month old) I am a working mom of two. My goal was to get my little girl to six months and then decide if I (and her of course) wanted to keep going," she began.
"Pumping at work sucks. I had zero downtime and am usually pumping in a hair and makeup trailer while four hands work to get me ready for the next scene with lots of other people around," she said
She went on to share the many other difficulties she experienced, such as pain from the breast pumping machine and finding a place to sterilize bottles while still keeping her milk cold.
Once she reached that milestone, though, she called it quits.
“I know many women are not able to and for that I am sympathetic and very grateful that I could. For six wonderful months. But I needed a break. I was going to break.”
Yes, you are, Hilary!
While speaking to PureWow, she explained the guilt she experienced for having a second child when her first one, 6-year-old Luca, was so young.
“It was just he and I for so long that he was like, ‘Why? Why, Mom? Why would you do this? I really just love the way it is,’ ” Duff recalled to the site.
“And it wasn’t bratty, it was just so sad.”
The star recalled asking herself, "‘How do I reverse this?! It’s too late now.’ It’s such big feelings. When you’re pregnant, everything just feels more magnified.”
“He came in after I had her. I was just holding her, and the look on his face was an absolute shock. He just said, ‘That’s my sister!’"
"He let out this huge sneeze in the hallway and said, ‘I had to sneeze and I knew I couldn’t do it in here near her.’"
Aww!
"It’s the best,” Duff said of their dynamic.
“It’s a chemical reaction between siblings sometimes where he knows he has to protect her.”
Luca being a super-protective big bro does have its downsides, though, like when he starts to scold Hilary!
“He’s like, ‘Well, you need to watch her,'" she said.
"I sat him down once and said, ‘Hey, you survived and I was your mom, so I swear she’s going to be okay.’"
Truth!
As long as these kiddos have Hilary as their mom, they will always have safety, comfort, and lots of love <3