Claire Danes‘second pregnancyis not going as smoothly as she hoped, especially the traveling.
“Everything’s just a little more complicated when you’re knocked up,” the actress, 39, candidly told Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday.
Danes, who flew to Los Angeles just for theJimmy Kimmel Liveappearance, explained the realities of flying as a pregnant woman, specifically why compression stockings are needed.
“So there’s a lot of pressure on the lower extremities right? It interferes with circulation, so it’s harder for the blood to get back up to the heart,” said theHomelandstar who is expecting her second child with husband Hugh Dancy.
“Anyway, so I hate these things and so I refuse to wear them until it’s entirely essential. I’m trying to negotiate putting them on in the teeny, tiny bathroom of the plane. It’s the last second until we take off and I’m in there for like 20 freakin’ minutes,” Danes shared.
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“It turns out compression stockings are rather tight. You’re supposed to put them with, you need talcum powder. I didn’t have any of that stuff, so all the limbs were in every direction. I don’t know what they thought I was doing in there, but it was not erotic,” she hilariously added.
Danes also shared a funny anecdote regarding her 2012 labor with son Cyrus Michael that may surpriseHomelandfans.
“The day that we were going to have this person arrive, it happened to be the day of the finale ofHomeland,” she recalled of being induced on the same day of the season two’s final episode, “The Choice,” aired on Showtime.
“Three in the morning when you’re looking for feedback, what you mean is, ‘Who hates me and how much?’ So, it didn’t take long for me to find the worst possible reviews available on the Internet,” she quipped. “It kind of occurred to me, ‘Oh, I think I’m in labor. I think this is happening. And I’m reading bad reviews. I don’t think it gets more masochistic than that. So, I put the phone down.”
And for her second pregnancy, Danes recently revealed that shekept the cast and crew of her hit series in the darkduring the early days of her pregnancy.
“I was filming during the first trimester which is kind of my least favorite phase because you just feel horrible,” she said in April. “You feel just rotten and you’re not allowed to say why.”
source: people.com
