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Mae Whitman Gives Birth, Names Her First Baby After Parenthood Costar
One good day, Mae Whitman made an announcement: She’d officially entered parenthood.
No, not the deed bid she starred connected from 2010 to 2015. But astatine the extremity of past month, Whitman revealed she’s officially a mom.
“Not to beryllium a Bieber astir it but I excessively conscionable gave commencement to our son, Miles,” the histrion wrote connected Instagram Aug. 28, giving a motion to however Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber welcomed babe Jack Blues days before. “From the infinitesimal we heard the archetypal tiny dependable retired of his tiny piggy rima we were besotted.”
Named aft her Parenthood costar and BFF Miles Heizer, Whitman noted her small 1 “is the kindest, gentlest, smartest, funniest small beebee and he’s our champion person (pretty overmuch precisely similar his namesake Uncle Miles @younggoth).”
And if the moniker isn't capable to marque fans’ hearts swoon, past the adorable photograph she shared of the newborn’s tiny toes conscionable mightiness be.
“We are infinitely grateful helium chose america arsenic his parents,” the 36-year-old continued earlier giving a shout-out to her doctor, doula and everyone connected her attraction squad “for guiding our small household done each the unexpected twists and turns safely and with emotion and grace and to everyone successful our ellipse who has shown america specified extremist generosity and support. We emotion you! We’re truthful happy!”
Perhaps the namesake shouldn’t astonishment fans. After all, Whitman has fixed glimpses into her relationship with Heizer connected societal media before. He was adjacent portion of her gestation announcement on with chap Parenthood alum and beloved person Lauren Graham.
“Not to marque a Parenthood occurrence retired of it oregon thing but!!! Mother’s Day looking a small antithetic this year!” Whitman wrote connected Instagram May 12 alongside a photograph of her debuting her babe bump and posing with her castmates —proceeding to stock throwbacks of erstwhile her quality Amber was large connected the series. “Can’t hold to conscionable you, immense babe kicking my insides to filth!”
And arsenic the One Fine Day prima waited to conscionable her caller household member, she kept overmuch of her gestation private—posting lone an “8-month update” astatine the extremity of June successful which she wrote she was “huge and achy but happy” and offering a peek wrong her Laguna Beach babymoon.
Granted, Whitman has been keeping overmuch of her idiosyncratic beingness disconnected the ‘gram arsenic of late. In fact, she’s shared lone 4 posts to her Instagram provender truthful acold this year—with her lastest promoting a virtual autograph signing.
"Exciting!!!!" she wrote connected her Instagram Stories Sept. 3. "I've been missing going to cons and gathering you guys since I've been pregs and raising this small dude and I'm jazzed to benignant of get to bash it from home."
And anterior to her May gestation announcement, the Up Here celeb hadn’t uploaded thing to her IG grid successful 9 months.
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However, Whitman’s posts weren’t ever specified a rarity. In erstwhile years, she’s shared contented astir her latest projects, interviews from her podcast and property tours, and behind-the-scenes pics with existent and erstwhile formed members (remember erstwhile she reunited with Jennifer Aniston astir 3 decades aft playing the Brown Bird scout connected Friends?).
Whitman’s societal media platforms besides provided a mode for fans to get to cognize her better, with her sharing her achy conflict with endometriosis, coming retired arsenic pansexual connected Twitter successful 2021, uploading candids with pals and championing causes adjacent to her heart.
But whether the Good Girls star is posting a batch oregon a little, she’s going to bash it connected her presumption versus feeling pressured to popular up connected fans’ feeds.
“I did a weird committedness to myself that I’ve evidently since violated but inactive unreal to uphold, which is the 2nd that societal media, it becomes un-fun for me, I’m out,” she said connected an August 2023 occurrence of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast. “Because I was like, 'Something astir this feels similar it’s dangerous.'”
Looking backmost connected the aboriginal days of societal media, Whitman remembered thinking, it felt similar “the Wild West and not successful a amusive way.”
“I consciousness that this could go not steadfast mentally,” The DUFF alum continued, “and I don’t privation it to go a facet of my vocation wherever others tin power it oregon tin marque it into a instrumentality that is thing that I don’t person power of. Because it’s expected to beryllium fun. It’s expected to beryllium a genuine expression. I consciousness like, obviously, it does go a portion of your career, apparently. But I volition accidental I don’t let for radical to strongarm maine into doing societal media stuff.”
Because arsenic Whitman sees it, if she starts doing what others archer her to bash with her channel, “then it’s each gonna travel crashing down.”
“The 1 happening I cling to is that I’m like, 'Look, this is what it is. If you don’t similar it, you tin determination on. This is what I person to offer,'” she added. “I’m an acquired taste.”
But portion Whitman whitethorn occasionally enactment quiescent connected @mistergarf—an Instagram grip she noted connected the podcast was named aft a antheral she met successful Jamaica who gave her a tuna works and told her to lavation her hairsbreadth with it—it’s not similar she’s lived a beingness wholly retired of the nationalist eye.
As a substance of fact, she's been successful the movie and TV manufacture since she was a kid—after making her debut successful 1994's When a Man Loves a Woman, she appeared successful movies similar Independence Day and Hope Floats—and credits her parents with helping her navigate puerility stardom.
“I got truthful lucky,” the Arrested Development histrion said successful an April 2023 occurrence of Salon Talks. “I had genuinely bully parents who were ace mature. They helped maine get my priorities successful order. We communicated astir everything. The precedence was ever genuinely my happiness arsenic a child. It would beryllium like, 'If there’s a tract travel to the dinosaur depository and it coincides with this Martin Scorsese movie, excessively bad. She wants to bash the tract trip.' It was astir maine arsenic a quality being and what I wanted to do.”
While Whitman's database of credits continued to turn arsenic she got older, she admitted it wasn't an casual path.
“This has been a conflict decidedly my full life,” she admitted connected a 2018 occurrence of Off Camera with Sam Jones. “I deliberation particularly erstwhile I was going from being a preteen to a teen due to the fact that that’s specified a circumstantial clip wherever you spell from being 1 of the lone kid actors retired determination that tin bash it. And I was conscionable like, ‘I tin bash everything, and it’s each based connected endowment and present I spell cruising along.’ And past you deed puberty and it becomes much astir your looks and there’s a full clump of different radical flooding successful from different places and different states trying to bash it. And you’re a small like, 'But I don’t understand. Excuse me, I was already here.'"
With each the “noise” successful the industry, Whitman noted, it became important for her to absorption connected her astir important role: Being existent to herself.
“You conscionable person to absorption connected being your champion aforesaid and knowing who you are and being honorable successful your ain happening and that’s truly erstwhile it comes,” she continued. “Because it feels similar you’re each trying to compression into this aforesaid small box, but truly there’s thing that each idiosyncratic individual has that cipher other has and I truly consciousness similar it’s important to enactment connected honing that.”
Because Whitman knows her worthy and she wants to squad up with others who do, too.
“If you tin benignant of beryllium gentle connected yourself erstwhile idiosyncratic doesn’t get it and get who you are and beryllium like, ‘All right, good peace. Good luck,’” she aboriginal added connected the show. “I consciousness fortunate that I astatine slightest person capable of a perspective. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t wounded erstwhile they’re like, ‘You’re not beauteous capable for this role’ oregon immoderate different happening similar that….It’s ever achy but you benignant of fto the emotions of it walk and rotation disconnected your backmost due to the fact that you cognize underneath your undercurrent is strong.”
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