Laura Prepon's role as Donna Pinciotti in Fox's popular sitcom That '70s Show propelled her straight to skyrocketing popularity. She portrayed Alex Vause in Orange Is the New Black - an equally well-received comedy-drama series on Netflix. The 40-year-old actress who is married to Ben Foster gave birth to her second child in Feb. this year. The couple also shares a daughter, Ella, who is 2-years-old.
While the newest entrant in the family arrived weeks before of the coronavirus pandemic disarranged the normal lives of people across the globe, Prepon said her family was already gearing up for quarantining together. "We had already planned on hunkering down," she told Fox News, adding that their reason for isolating now is different.
As a family, Prepon said they are bent on tackling all the scary and stressful information about the pandemic with humor and cheerfulness. This Sunday, Prepon will be celebrating her first Mother's Day as a mother of two kids and she even shed more light on what she recently discovered about taking care of two little kids.
When the actress got pregnant the second time, she was only worried about loving another child as much as she loves her first child. "I remember worrying, like, 'Oh my God how am I possibly going to love something as much as her?' And you just do," she confessed.
But much to her surprise, Prepon found that she had the same amount of love for her second child. She deemed this feeling as crazy and amazing, adding that her son is simply incredible. Welcoming her second child wasn't spared of difficulties though.
When Prepon became pregnant in 2018, she was informed that her child had birth defects during a doctor's visit. Following this heartbreaking news, she opted to terminate the pregnancy. She spoke about this experience in her new book entitled, "You and I, As Mothers," which was released in April.
Aside from serving as a record of memories of Prepon's experience as a mom, the book comes in handy for mothers worldwide as it is teeming with pieces of advice the actress and her "Mom Squad" which comprises fellow caregivers and a slew of other strong women.
The decision to get an abortion brought a considerable deal of pain and shame, coupled with anger and self-blame. She initially thought she had done something that caused it, but that wasn't the case. After opening up about how she felt, she found that a lot of other women go through the same experience of loss.