I’m not sure anyone — and I could be wrong in this — grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom…You really have to weigh out all the pros and cons and how it will fit into your life professionally, spiritually, and emotionally. Doing it on your own when it wasn’t expected comes with a lot of fears and anxieties. But I felt 100 percent that I could do this.
The 37-year-old actress said that telling her parents about the pregnancy was “a hard conversation” to have. She added,
I’m a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that’s the way I’d be doing this. For a moment, it was hard for me to accept that this was the way I was going to have a family. I’ve had to recognize that there are just so many different options today.
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I was creating life on a daily basis, I felt beautiful, I felt sexy.
Her social life certainly didn’t suffer while she was carrying Jack, with Bridget tellingHarper’s Bazaar"I couldn’t believe how many times I was asked out!" While she opted not to seriously date anyone at the time, she said the interest was good for her psyche.
When I was faced with doing this on my own, I was worried about how it was going to affect my personal life. I was confident that it was not going to be an issue. And I was right.
As for dating postpartum, Bridget says Jack has only helped the cause.
It’s brought higher-quality people into my life because whoever is going to be [with me] understands straight off the bat that it’s a package. If you just want to hang out and have some fun, there are a thousand other girls who are willing.
Fortunately, Bridget’s anxiety didn’t last long. In fact, she’s so at ease being Jack’s mom, she says she has become the kind of mother she “used to dread” — The kind who “every time he does something, you think he’s a genius.” Jack’s latest and greatest accomplishments? Clapping, standing up and crawling, three milestones which prompted Bridget to quip: “He’s totally a genius.” Despite the rocky start, Bridget says she wouldn’t change a thing.
Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that. It’s golden and it’s tough and it was f–ked up. But now I have a child, and it’s the best thing in the world.
Bridget said that she’d “love” to have more children, and while she knows she is capable of raising Jack on her own, she hasn’t given up hope on finding someone to share the experience with. That said, her desire for a relationship won’t come at the expense of her son. Said Bridget,
I think it’s important to have a strong male figure in my son’s life and I want something equal to that in my life, as a partner, a lover, a friend. But I’d rather be alone [than] with somebody who doesn’t work. I don’t need that, and my son doesn’t need that.
source: people.com
