Actress Jessica Biel revealed that she felt like a “failure” after giving birth to her son via a C-section instead of a natural birth, as she had planned.
Her son, Silas, was born after Biel was forced to abandon her plans and undergo an emergency C-section, ET reported.
“That was a very transformative experience, because I had such a plan,” Biel told ET.
“I thought, this was going to happen and this is the way it shall be, and everything happened the opposite way and it was a great lesson in knowing in the future, ‘OK, you know things in life you plan and you have to be flexible,’ especially being a parent and having to go, ‘OK, we’re changing the plan, we’re not going there, we’re having a meltdown,’ or ‘We’re having a good day, let’s go get in the car or jump in a plane,’ like, you have to be flexible, and I had a very hard mindset of what I wanted to happen.”
“And I’m just in awe of women who have a natural birth and if I have the opportunity to try it again or do it again, it will be amazing,” she added. “And, if not, I don’t have that feeling anymore. I don’t have that intense drive that it will make me more of a woman or more of a mother or I failed because I felt as if I failed him, because my body didn’t work the way it was supposed to work.”
She gave birth to Silas in 2015.
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