Former Ellen DeGeneres Present youngster star Sophia Grace Brownlee has no regrets about changing into a younger mom.
“I used to be fairly younger once I had River. I used to be 19, which I do really feel like is kind of younger,” Brownlee, 22, mentioned on the Wednesday, February 25, episode of the “Personal Story” podcastreferring to her son. “I don’t remorse, like, doing something as a result of I’m fairly pleased with the place I’m now.”
Brownlee introduced in October 2022 that she was anticipating her first child earlier than giving beginning to River in March 2023. The social media star revealed the following yr that she was pregnant once more. Brownlee gave beginning to daughter Athena in January 2025. (Brownlee has not publicly revealed the daddy of her kids.)
“After I had Athena, I used to be 21, which is a little more older,” she defined on Wednesday’s episode. “It’s clearly younger to have youngsters, however I don’t actually suppose there’s a proper age to have youngsters so long as you’re prepared and also you’re mature sufficient, that’s all that issues.”
Courtesy of Rosie McClelland/Instagram The Ellen Degeneres Present stars Sophia Grace Brownlee and Rosie McClelland recreated their iconic “Tremendous Bass” duet. “Throw again 💕 @therealsophiagrace,” McClelland, 18, wrote by way of Instagram on Wednesday, October 20, alongside a video of her and Brownlee, 21, lip-syncing to their viral model of the Nicki Minaj track. The clip featured (…)
Brownlee additional acknowledged that, due to her expertise on Ellen DeGeneres Presentshe was “financially steady” sufficient to offer for a household with out struggling.
“If I wasn’t, like, I’d have been struggling quite a bit,” she mentioned. “So, yeah, I’m blessed to have been in that state of affairs.”
Whereas Brownlee has discovered a candy rhythm as a mother of two, she didn’t have the best being pregnant and childbirth journey.
“It really went fairly dangerous with River. It wasn’t a pleasant expertise,” she recalled. “I went into labor naturally, and I used to be only a week early, which is widespread. That’s not an issue, and every little thing was superb. It simply, sort of, obtained dangerous while you’re really making an attempt to push the infant out. He was getting actually stressed, and he simply wouldn’t come down correctly like how (infants) are alleged to.”
Brownlee continued, “A great deal of completely different medical doctors and surgeons (got here into my room), which is so scary. I used to be, like, ‘What’s occurring?’ They had been, like, ‘We expect we’re going to should do a C-section as a result of the infant’s getting distressed.’ I used to be simply so scared that they had been going to place me to sleep ‘trigger that’s certainly one of my largest fears as a result of I feel I’m not going to get up.”
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In keeping with Brownlee, her emergency caesarean was “one of many scariest instances” in her life.
“I’ve by no means even been in hospital correctly for something in my life, so I’m laying there in a room filled with so many individuals,” the YouTube star defined. “I’ve obtained this curtain up in entrance of me as a result of they don’t need you to see it, and I used to be numb anyway. I’d had an epidural, which numbs you from the waist down, as a result of I couldn’t deal with the ache.”
River was ultimately delivered safely, which was a very completely different expertise from Brownlee’s beginning with Athena.
“As a result of I had a C-section, they had been like, ‘We’re going to guide you in for one more one,’” she mentioned of delivering her second youngster. “That’s what they love to do, however the midwives had been, like, ‘No, we expect you possibly can have her naturally, so a minimum of attempt.’ I did, and it went so rapidly. … I used to be so pleased with myself, and I used to be glad I obtained to expertise a pure beginning, which I’d select each time over a C-section.”