Jenny Slate.Photo: Mark Davis/Getty
Jenny Slateis a mommy!
TheObvious Childactress, 38, has welcomed her first child, daughter Ida Lupine Shattuck, with fiancéBen Shattuck, she revealed toEntertainment Tonight.
“I can say, without a doubt, that motherhood is for sure the most meaningful thing that has ever happened to me. I feel really lucky and happy,” she told the outlet, adding that giving birth made for a “strangely rather romantic” moment bonding with Shattuck in the delivery room.
“Being a mother is such a joy — it’s so cliché, but I love it,” she adds, referring to her new addition as “our sweet gal.”
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Joking aside, Slate —who got engaged toShattuck in September 2019, later delaying theiroriginal June 2020 wedding plans— said the happy news was “very nice to have something that is incredibly positive during a time that’s hard and sad.”
She explained at the time that she’d been doing “all the birth-prep stuff” — something she said she enjoyed. Slate also revealed she and Shattuck were living “in a beautiful tiny little seaside town” in Massachusetts.
“And just my luck, I moved in with my fiancé, and of course he lives in a very old house that is, I think, most certainly hauntedand has an actual pet cemetery,” Slate said. “It has been in my fiancé Ben’s family since the ’30s, I think, so it’s like 90 years of pets.”
“At the beginning of the pandemic, when I was just newly pregnant, I started to go out and visit the pet cemetery every day. And Ben told me I started saying things like, ‘I’m just gonna go outside and visit the pets,’ " she continued. “That’show a scary movie starts— a pregnant lady is like, ‘My pets. My precious, precious pets.’ "
source: people.com
