Sharing their stories. There are many celebrities moms who have shared their experiences with Cesarean births.
“I didn’t expect a C-section,” Sharna BurgessIn July 2022, she wrote via Instagram alongside a photo showing her scar. “I didn’t necessarily have a birth plan but even my relaxed go with the flow approach got tested when we were told this was the safest option. Our little Zane was trying so hard to get out but after 30+ hrs of labor and my water breaking TWICE, I just wasn’t dilating enough.”
The Dancing With the StarsZane, a pro-welfare son, was married to his husband Brian Austin GreenIn June 2022. “In the moment it was scary, s–t even on the table it was scary,” she said of her birthing experience. “But Zane arrived healthy and happy and that was always the priority.”
Amy SchumerShe also shared the terror she felt welcoming her son Gene into the World in May 2019 with her husband Chris Fischer.
“I was throwing up through the first hour of my C-section. It’s supposed to take about an hour and a half — mine took over three hours because of my endometriosis and that was really scary,” the comedian revealed during a December 2019 appearance on the “Informed Pregnancy and Parenting Podcast.”
Schumer compared her birthing process to “torture” but said her husband helped her through it. “Chris was so great. We just stared in each other’s eyes and he just held me there. After that, they allowed me to hold Gene for a long time. I got to see him and hold him,” the TrainwreckActress shared.
Oscar-winner Kate WinsletInitial confusion overshadowed the fact that she gave birth to her eldest child, Mia via Cesarean. “I’ve never talked about this. I’ve gone to great pains to cover it up, but Mia was an emergency C-section,” she told GothamMarch 2004 issue of magazine. “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.”
More stars have begun renouncing the narrative of “failure” and sharing their childbirth scars, like Burgess did. Schumer also posted an Instagram photo of her post-procedure body. “Feeling like my C-section looks cute today! #hotgirlwinter #csection,” she captioned the NSFW pic in January 2021.
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