Celebrity Moms Get Real About Their Home Births

Married at First Sight star Jamie Otis welcomed her son Hayes Douglas Hehner in her New Jersey home in May 2020. Her home birth was assisted by a midwife and a doula, and her husband Doug Hehner. Jamie Otis

“I feel like there’s nothing I can’t do,” the model said of how empowering giving birth was. “There’s nothing that could come my way where I say, ‘That’s too hard. I can’t handle that.’" Ashley Graham

“It changed my life because it was molecule-splicing, sea-parting, tornado-blowing, hands-down the absolute hardest, most intense, most surreal, and most challenging thing I have ever done in my life,” Eva Amurri

“It was so absolutely lovely and rewarding (and shocking) that after giving birth to my baby girl we hugged … for the first time,” Hilary Duff said on Instagram sharing a video from when she gave birth to Banks. Hilary Duff

This weekend our angel arrived healthy & perfect in every way in our bathroom at home,” the singer wrote after giving birth to Adeya. “Unmedicated homebirth was the absolute hardest yet most powerful thing I’ve ever done.” Kehlani

This weekend our angel arrived healthy & perfect in every way in our bathroom at home,” the singer wrote after giving birth to Adeya. “Unmedicated homebirth was the absolute hardest yet most powerful thing I’ve ever done.” Lake Bell

Not only did the singer give birth to three babies at home, but she also live-tweeted one of her births. “I can’t believe it’s over,” she wrote on Twitter right afterward. Erykah Badu

She managed to get through her 22 hours of labor in a thunderstorm “with nothing more than an aspirin.” Maria Bello

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