Jodie Turner-Smith Goes Into Detail About Her At-Home Birthing Experience: ‘I Didn't Do It With Any Medication’
Jodie Turner-Smith is revealing more details about her birthing experience after welcoming her daughter in April 2020. Below, learn about the actress’ experience, plus find out how finding strength in her postpartum healing process inspired her latest role as Anne Boleyn.
In an interview with E! News, Jodie revealed details about her at-home birthing experience with her husband Joshua Jackson. “It took me a very long time to give birth to my daughter, and I didn't do it with any medication,” the 35-year-old beauty recalled about welcoming her first child in her Los Angeles home amid the pandemic.
She was in labor for four days.
The new mom continued, “In a sense, it was like this cosmic psychedelic journey because your body is such a miraculous thing and it will do whatever it has to do to be able to process and understand whatever pain it is going through.”
Jodie later revealed that her doula and midwife told her she “wasn't allowed to go downstairs for two weeks” in order to let her body heal.
Shortly after coming off bedrest, Jodie began taping her role as Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, in a three-part series for AMC+.
Jodie used her personal experience when she stepped into the shoes of Anne, who experienced the pain of losing children in childbirth and was forced to still fulfill her daily obligations. “There's so much pressure on women to just go back out there [after delivering], so I wanted to kind of speak to that,” she explained. "I really wanted to make sure that I was doing my best to honor that trauma.”
She added, "For any performer, there's always an honor when somebody asks you to portray something that is so personal and scary and frightening."
FYI: Episode two of Anne Boleyn airs tonight on AMC.
