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Mila Kunis - "He'll be head to head," Kunis told Marie Claire, about her baby father Ashton Kutcher. "I highly doubt he wants to see that being ripped apart and shredded. Because it will be shredded. It's just a matter of how badly."
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Kylie Jenner - Kylie welcomed her first child in 2018. "I needed Khloé in the room with me," she told the Evening Standard. "Everyone should have Khloé in their delivery room."
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Serena Williams - "I think every woman, a part of them, wants to have birth naturally," Williams told People. "But then I thought, Oh my God, I'm going to have this scar." She eventually had a C-section.
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Keira Knightley - Knightley addressed her own daughter in an essay titled 'The Weaker Sex.' "You came out with your eyes open. Arms up in the air. Screaming. They put you on to me, covered in blood."
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Thandie Newton - "He was born on the bathroom floor," Newton said about her son Booker. "There was a time when everybody had their babies at home and it wasn't such a big deal," she told Today.
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Kim Kardashian West - Kim was candid about childbirth with Elle. "Your placenta is supposed to come out. But mine was stuck. That's what women usually die from in childbirth [...] the doctor had to stick his whole arm in me and scrape it off."
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Cardi B - The Bronx-born superstar told W about welcoming daughter Kulture. "I feel better now, but sometimes I just feel so vulnerable, like I'm not ready for the world yet. It's weird."
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Amy Poehler - Speaking with Yes Please, Poehler talked about what she did with her two sons. "I have a friend who had two babies at home! In bed! Her name is Maya Rudolph! [...] Good for her! Not for me."
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Zoe Saldana - Saldana was blessed with twins, but had to get a C-section for their birth. "I didn't qualify for an epidural, so I delivered under general anesthetic. I didn't even meet them until a day later," she told Allure.
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Jennifer Lopez - The singer wasn't looking forward to her C-section, "But when I saw my sister pushing that baby out, I was like, 'Maybe this was all right! Maybe this was a better out,'" Lopez told Wonderwall.
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Angelina Jolie - "We were in this little hospital in Africa when Shi was born," the star told Vanity Fair. "I had a C-section and I found it fascinating. [...] I didn't find it a painful experience."
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Emma Thompson - "The pain of giving birth is now 'optional'," Thompson told Vulture. "Yet there's no honesty about what that option can actually do to your body. It's odd how frightened we've been made to feel about the pain of it."
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Alicia Keys - Keys was energized after giving birth to second son Genesis. "My husband was just saying, he was like, 'Baby, I really need you to like get some rest,' because I'm just invigorated. I'm just moved."
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Maya Rudolph - "[A home birth] was not my plan, but that's what happened … because the baby came out really fast," Rudolph told Chelsea Lately.
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Kristen Bell - Kristen Bell told Ellen DeGeneres about her C-section. "As someone who has never experimented with drugs [...] It was kind of a wonderful experience for me."
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Kate Hudson - Hudson has a star mom in Goldie Hawn, who helped her daughter during childbirth, with a magnolia flower. "She's going, 'Imagine your va-jay-jay as a large magnolia flower blossoming.'"
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Beyoncé - Beyoncé has gone into great detail about giving birth. "I had an emergency C-section. We spent many weeks in the NICU. My husband was a soldier and such a strong support system for me," she told Vogue.
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Tilda Swinton - "It's a truly, truly murderous business," Swinton told Marie Claire. "Giving birth is a violent thing to go through. It's a bloody business having a family."
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Kate Winslet - Winslet was tight-lipped about giving birth, but opened up to Gotham. "Mia was an emergency C-section. I just said I had a natural birth because I was so completely traumatized by the fact that I hadn't given birth. I felt like a complete failure."
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Jennifer Hudson - Jennifer Hudson had a C-section. "I've been up and about since he was born. To me, the pain is no different than when you work out a muscle you've never worked out before," she told People.
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Hilary Duff - "It was very easy," Duff said, of her labor. "We got in the car and drove to the hospital and that was it." If you say so…
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Miranda Kerr - Miranda Kerr had an out-of-body experience when giving birth. "I actually thought I was going to die at one point and left my body. I was looking down on myself, the pain was so intense."
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Erykah Badu - Questlove (of The Roots) bet that Badu wouldn't tweet while in labor. "So I did … She's the first Twitter baby, and she's breastfed on Twitty milk," the singer told People.
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Snooki - "I cannot take that pain. I was literally dying," Snooki said about giving birth. "I was trying to breathe and, you know, be calm, but it just feels like there's a million knives stabbing you in the uterus and you can't do it."
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Nora Ephron - Ephron doesn't have fond memories of childbirth. "The song has ended, but the melody lingers on, and that goes for the pain of labor, only not in a good way," she told O magazine.
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Kristin Cavallari - The TV personality said her labor was "so painful but a different kind of pain." How so? " I knew we were going to meet our son. It was worth every minute and I'll do it again."
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Caitlin Moran - "None of the anesthetics worked. The epidurals didn't work [...] eventually they had to give me an emergency C-section," Moran told NPR. "But I would never have written about a bad birth — because I think women do like to sit around and scare each other with bad birth tales."
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Gaby Hoffmann - "I had a lot of help in my birth," the actress told Stephen Colbert. "I had a home birth, and she [...] did not want to come out. … We needed like a team of doulas at my birth, which I had, luckily."
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Ali Wong
- Ali Wong didn't censor herself when talking about childbirth. "You know what happens after the baby comes out? You know what else exits? Her house. Her living room, her pillows [...] All the food that went bad in her refrigerator." See also: All in the family: Celebrity in-laws
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Mila Kunis - "He'll be head to head," Kunis told Marie Claire, about her baby father Ashton Kutcher. "I highly doubt he wants to see that being ripped apart and shredded. Because it will be shredded. It's just a matter of how badly."
© BrunoPress
1 / 30 Fotos
Kylie Jenner - Kylie welcomed her first child in 2018. "I needed Khloé in the room with me," she told the Evening Standard. "Everyone should have Khloé in their delivery room."
© Getty Images
2 / 30 Fotos
Serena Williams - "I think every woman, a part of them, wants to have birth naturally," Williams told People. "But then I thought, Oh my God, I'm going to have this scar." She eventually had a C-section.
© Getty Images
3 / 30 Fotos
Keira Knightley - Knightley addressed her own daughter in an essay titled 'The Weaker Sex.' "You came out with your eyes open. Arms up in the air. Screaming. They put you on to me, covered in blood."
© BrunoPress
4 / 30 Fotos
Thandie Newton - "He was born on the bathroom floor," Newton said about her son Booker. "There was a time when everybody had their babies at home and it wasn't such a big deal," she told Today.
© Getty Images
5 / 30 Fotos
Kim Kardashian West - Kim was candid about childbirth with Elle. "Your placenta is supposed to come out. But mine was stuck. That's what women usually die from in childbirth [...] the doctor had to stick his whole arm in me and scrape it off."
© Getty Images
6 / 30 Fotos
Cardi B - The Bronx-born superstar told W about welcoming daughter Kulture. "I feel better now, but sometimes I just feel so vulnerable, like I'm not ready for the world yet. It's weird."
© Getty Images
7 / 30 Fotos
Amy Poehler - Speaking with Yes Please, Poehler talked about what she did with her two sons. "I have a friend who had two babies at home! In bed! Her name is Maya Rudolph! [...] Good for her! Not for me."
© Getty Images
8 / 30 Fotos
Zoe Saldana - Saldana was blessed with twins, but had to get a C-section for their birth. "I didn't qualify for an epidural, so I delivered under general anesthetic. I didn't even meet them until a day later," she told Allure.
© Getty Images
9 / 30 Fotos
Jennifer Lopez - The singer wasn't looking forward to her C-section, "But when I saw my sister pushing that baby out, I was like, 'Maybe this was all right! Maybe this was a better out,'" Lopez told Wonderwall.
© Getty Images
10 / 30 Fotos
Angelina Jolie - "We were in this little hospital in Africa when Shi was born," the star told Vanity Fair. "I had a C-section and I found it fascinating. [...] I didn't find it a painful experience."
© Getty Images
11 / 30 Fotos
Emma Thompson - "The pain of giving birth is now 'optional'," Thompson told Vulture. "Yet there's no honesty about what that option can actually do to your body. It's odd how frightened we've been made to feel about the pain of it."
© Getty Images
12 / 30 Fotos
Alicia Keys - Keys was energized after giving birth to second son Genesis. "My husband was just saying, he was like, 'Baby, I really need you to like get some rest,' because I'm just invigorated. I'm just moved."
© BrunoPress
13 / 30 Fotos
Maya Rudolph - "[A home birth] was not my plan, but that's what happened … because the baby came out really fast," Rudolph told Chelsea Lately.
© Getty Images
14 / 30 Fotos
Kristen Bell - Kristen Bell told Ellen DeGeneres about her C-section. "As someone who has never experimented with drugs [...] It was kind of a wonderful experience for me."
© Getty Images
15 / 30 Fotos
Kate Hudson - Hudson has a star mom in Goldie Hawn, who helped her daughter during childbirth, with a magnolia flower. "She's going, 'Imagine your va-jay-jay as a large magnolia flower blossoming.'"
© Getty Images
16 / 30 Fotos
Beyoncé - Beyoncé has gone into great detail about giving birth. "I had an emergency C-section. We spent many weeks in the NICU. My husband was a soldier and such a strong support system for me," she told Vogue.
© Getty Images
17 / 30 Fotos
Tilda Swinton - "It's a truly, truly murderous business," Swinton told Marie Claire. "Giving birth is a violent thing to go through. It's a bloody business having a family."
© Getty Images
18 / 30 Fotos
Kate Winslet - Winslet was tight-lipped about giving birth, but opened up to Gotham. "Mia was an emergency C-section. I just said I had a natural birth because I was so completely traumatized by the fact that I hadn't given birth. I felt like a complete failure."
© Getty Images
19 / 30 Fotos
Jennifer Hudson - Jennifer Hudson had a C-section. "I've been up and about since he was born. To me, the pain is no different than when you work out a muscle you've never worked out before," she told People.
© Getty Images
20 / 30 Fotos
Hilary Duff - "It was very easy," Duff said, of her labor. "We got in the car and drove to the hospital and that was it." If you say so…
© Getty Images
21 / 30 Fotos
Miranda Kerr - Miranda Kerr had an out-of-body experience when giving birth. "I actually thought I was going to die at one point and left my body. I was looking down on myself, the pain was so intense."
© Getty Images
22 / 30 Fotos
Erykah Badu - Questlove (of The Roots) bet that Badu wouldn't tweet while in labor. "So I did … She's the first Twitter baby, and she's breastfed on Twitty milk," the singer told People.
© Getty Images
23 / 30 Fotos
Snooki - "I cannot take that pain. I was literally dying," Snooki said about giving birth. "I was trying to breathe and, you know, be calm, but it just feels like there's a million knives stabbing you in the uterus and you can't do it."
© Getty Images
24 / 30 Fotos
Nora Ephron - Ephron doesn't have fond memories of childbirth. "The song has ended, but the melody lingers on, and that goes for the pain of labor, only not in a good way," she told O magazine.
© Getty Images
25 / 30 Fotos
Kristin Cavallari - The TV personality said her labor was "so painful but a different kind of pain." How so? " I knew we were going to meet our son. It was worth every minute and I'll do it again."
© Getty Images
26 / 30 Fotos
Caitlin Moran - "None of the anesthetics worked. The epidurals didn't work [...] eventually they had to give me an emergency C-section," Moran told NPR. "But I would never have written about a bad birth — because I think women do like to sit around and scare each other with bad birth tales."
© Getty Images
27 / 30 Fotos
Gaby Hoffmann - "I had a lot of help in my birth," the actress told Stephen Colbert. "I had a home birth, and she [...] did not want to come out. … We needed like a team of doulas at my birth, which I had, luckily."
© Getty Images
28 / 30 Fotos
Ali Wong
- Ali Wong didn't censor herself when talking about childbirth. "You know what happens after the baby comes out? You know what else exits? Her house. Her living room, her pillows [...] All the food that went bad in her refrigerator." See also: All in the family: Celebrity in-laws
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Celebrity mothers get honest about childbirth
Quotes about childbirth that are both gruesome and heartwarming
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In the words of Gloria Steinem, "childbirth is more admirable than conquest." Men may never know the true pain of giving birth, but mothers around the world have stories to tell about the day they went into labor. Whether you're expecting and want some advice, or you're just plain curious, here's a selection of celebrity quotes on childbirth.
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