Each lady’s journey to motherhood is completely different. Whereas some ladies’s eyes gentle up on the considered being referred to as “mommy,” for others, the thought of getting pregnant can really feel overwhelming—and even terrifying. Just lately, Meagan Good opened up about how she was a kind of ladies.
In an interview with Scott Evans, Good revealed that it took her years to succeed in the purpose the place she was able to be a mother. A lot in order that when her sister, La’Myia Good-Bellinger, informed her she was pregnant together with her first baby, the “Harlem” star admitted that her response wasn’t the most effective. Re-enacting the dialog that she had together with her then 35-year-old sister, the actress remembers her 33-year-old self saying, “Wow…you’re pregnant…why?”
“Initially, I used to be like, ‘wait, what?’ as a result of that’s such an enormous dedication. I imply, your complete life’s going to vary it’s by no means going to be the identical…such as you’re actually going to be an grownup,’” Good continued, remembering her dialog together with her sister on the time.
Her response, although not the standard response to a being pregnant announcement, is hilariously relatable. The concept of motherhood might be intimidating, bringing on drastic adjustments—from bodily transformations to healthcare challenges, psychological well being changes, and a completely new way of life. The considered navigating all of that may be daunting.
For Good, the hesitation got here from a worry of dropping her freedom.
“I feel there was a worry that life would flip into Groundhog’s Day, and as a lot as I wish to journey and as a lot as I wish to identical to leap round and be free and do my very own factor,” she mentioned, explaining how her craving for freedom is compacted by being a toddler actor and being informed what to do for therefore lengthy. “Then while you lastly get your freedom, by then you definately’re nearly an grownup by [which] comes with all these grownup issues, and so [when it came to] making a few of these grownup choices for me, I used to be like, ‘let me simply wait as a result of I simply obtained an opportunity to really be a toddler and an grownup.’”
Good’s perspective on motherhood started to vary even earlier than she met her fiancé, actor Jonathan Majors, however their relationship solidified her readiness.
“I’m prepared proper now as a result of I’ve a lot enjoyable with him and since I do know that it’s not going to change into Groundhogs Day,” she mentioned. “I do know that me and him are going to be backpacking over right here [or]…over right here producing on this film that I may be directing and he may be producing, or he may be starring in, and our children are going to be with us in Africa, [or] wherever it’s. I simply know that even when we’re not shifting round rather a lot…I actually, actually love the best way that we do life [together].”
Now excited to transition from “auntie” to “mommy,” Good envisions a future the place she’s married, elevating two youngsters (her seemingly non-negotiable restrict), touring the world, and persevering with to make significant contributions to the leisure business.
“I need ladies of their mid to late 40s to know that simply because we become older doesn’t imply that we will’t do all of the issues and we must always if we need to and [should] be fully empowered in that. And in addition not attempt to be 20 or 30, be precisely who we’re in that house.”
