Jessica Biel welcomed her first child with Justin Timberlake in 2015. However, their months of labor training and plans for natural childbirth didn’t exactly turn out how they expected. Biel opened up about undergoing an emergency C-Section in the book “The Nanny Connie Way: Secrets to Mastering the First Four Months of Parenthood” (via Vogue). “We had two midwives, one doula, one meditation birthing class, a ton of hippie baby books, and a lovely home in the Hollywood Hills that we had turned into a labor training facility that we called the Octagon,” she admitted. The couple instead ended up rushing to the hospital for the unexpected C-Section.
Despite the birth being different than expected, Silas arrived as a healthy baby boy. The actor admitted he takes after his father, telling Today: “He is a ham, just like his dad — serious ham,” adding, “He thinks everything is funny. He goofs on me all the time.” The “Sinner” star revealed that motherhood has helped shape her acting career, telling E! News that she’s developed a softer side after welcoming Silas into the family. “[Motherhood] informs everything in your life,” she explained. “I’m more emotional, more sensitive, more everything to the world.”
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Having a child made Biel even more thankful for her own mother. “I’ve never been more thankful and grateful to my own mother. Oh, my gosh I’m going to call her right after this actually and just thank her. What you have to do for your kid — it’s an amazing responsibility and the biggest joy ever,” she told Today.
