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Samira Wileyis opening up about the challenges of being a new mom.
On Wednesday, theHandmaid’s Taleactress, 34, sat down for an interview onCBS This Morningwhere she discussed her first few weeks of motherhood, including some of the scarier moments of parenting.
“I’m pretty sure I thought I killed her like a couple times,” the actress jokingly said.
While the star said “every single thing has been amazing and awesome,” she admitted that parenting can be “horrible sometimes when I don’t know what’s wrong with her and I can’t get her to stop crying.”
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“But then I’m like, ‘Did you just smile at me? Or was that gas?’ I’m not sure, but I’m gonna go with the smile,” she said with a laugh.
Earlier this month, Wiley announced the arrival of her newborn daughter in a post shared on Instagram on her first Mother’s Day.
“Happy 1stMother’s Dayto my beautiful wife, who four weeks ago today after laboring for almost 3 days gave birth to our first child — our gorgeous daughter, George.💜,” Wiley captioned an adorablephoto of their newborngrasping both her moms' fingers.
Posting thesame snapshot, Morelli, 38, wrote, “4 weeks ago today, our daughter came into the world and changed everything. We are so happy, so grateful, and so tired. George Elizabeth, 4.11.21 ❤️.”
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“We got to teach the new generation about this because I wish that I had some really in-depth story to tell people about George, cause I know that’s what people want [and] you got to give the people what they want,” she continued. “But I just really like the name, I just think it’s really cute.”
“I tried to do some research, I found out in the 1800s it was a girls name, but people don’t believe me when I say that,” theOrange Is the New Blackstar and writer added, before noting she was also told that Nancy Drew’s best friend, who is a girl, was also named George.
source: people.com
