TheDon’t Tell a Soulactress, 41, is expecting her first child with husband Michael Hope, sonChristopher Alexander, and she tellsEntertainment Tonightthat she feels “really lucky” to be entering motherhood soon. “It truly feels like the most important thing that I will ever do in my life. Like, nothing else matters. Everything just changes in your life. He’ll come first,” says Suvari.
“I just want to help raise a loving, aware, sensitive, conscious human being. I mean, really that’s the basis of all of it,” she adds of her future son. “I just want to give him the opportunity to experience all the magic in the world and practice his empathy and consideration of others.”
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Suvariannounced her happy pregnancy newsexclusively with PEOPLE back in October, opening up about how finding out she is expecting was a “very emotional experience.” “It’s still this process for me of believing it and accepting that something this beautiful could happen for me,” she said at the time.
“I was recording my temperature every morning and peeing on these ovulation sticks,” the mom-to-be said. “You expect that it’ll happen and it didn’t. I got to this place where I felt overwhelmed and stressed out.”
Adding to the pressure to conceive quickly was Suvari’s age. “I’m 41 and there’s this air of like, I’ve got one foot in the grave and good luck,” she says, sharing that the mounting stress and continuous negative pregnancy tests made the actress finally take a step back.
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In the end, however, Suvari trusted in her own body despite externalopinions on her maternal age. “Even in my late 30s I had people questioning me. It put a lot of fear in you,” she said. “It took a lot of work to really pull back from that and really believe and trust in my own body and where I was at, have my own journey with it.”
“But I don’t want to be that helicopter parent!” jokes Suvari. “I feel like my husband is going to be the cool one and I’m going to be the one that’s nervous about everything.”
source: people.com
