▲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."

▲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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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."

▲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."

▲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.

▲"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.

▲"[A home birth] was not my plan, but that's what happened … because the baby came out really fast," Rudolph told Chelsea Lately.

▲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."

▲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."

▲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.

▲"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.

▲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.

▲"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."

▲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."

▲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."

▲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."

▲"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."

▲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.

▲"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."

▲"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."

▲"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."

▲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.

▲"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."

▲"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…

▲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."

▲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.

▲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."

▲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.'"

▲"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."

▲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.

Celebrity mothers get honest about childbirth

Quotes about childbirth that are both gruesome and heartwarming

10/05/24 por StarsInsider

CELEBRITY Childbirth

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.