Celebrities’ Most Unconventional Birth Stories: Bathrooms, Backseats and More

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Celebrities' Most Unconventional Birth Stories: Bathrooms, Backseats and More

Whoa, baby! Jade Roper, Morgan Beck and more celebrity moms have given birth to their babies in unique scenarios. The Bachelor in Paradise alum delivered her eldest son, Brooks, in her master closet in July 2019. "The moment I realized that we weren't going to make it to the hospital, I was, like, screaming,” the “Mommies Tell All” podcast cohost explained to Entertainment Tonight at the time. "It took my pain to a whole other level because it became fear. We were all in the closet. I’m, like, hunched over, clenching this bench. [The paramedics] got there in six minutes.” The Colorado native gave birth two minutes after their arrival. Her husband, Tanner Tolbert, told the outlet that he could see their baby boy’s “whole head” before medical personnel showed up. “He was crowning. I was there by myself [and saw] a head of hair, and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is actually going to happen.’" Roper chimed in, “He almost had to catch the baby on his own.” The Bachelor season 19 alum experienced “trauma from the birth,” she exclusively told Us Weekly nearly two years later, which made her second son Reed’s home birth “redemptive.” Roper explained in March 2021: “It was just really beautiful and peaceful. I don't know if that helped. Obviously, I [still] have the hard days. He's still not sleeping. He's up every two to three hours. We have hard days, but it's been such a different energy this time.” [sendtonews type="float" key="ShZjtyu910-2838727-14453"] As for Beck, the former professional volleyball player’s husband, Bode Miller, delivered their twin sons, Asher and Aksel, himself in November 2019. “None of the midwives actually made it on time,” the Olympian ski racer said during a Today show appearance at the time. "By the time they got there, me and my mom, [Jo Kenney], were both holding the babies. Luckily my mom was a midwife, but she hadn’t delivered babies in 20-plus years and had never delivered twins." Keep scrolling to see more celebrities’ wild birth confessions, from Pretty Little Liars’ Troian Bellisario crowning in the backseat of her car to singer Teyana Taylor welcoming her first — and second — child in a bathroom. [podcast_block]

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Celebrities' Most Unconventional Birth Stories: Bathrooms, Backseats and More

Whoa, baby! Jade Roper, Morgan Beck and more celebrity moms have given birth to their babies in unique scenarios. The Bachelor in Paradise alum delivered her eldest son, Brooks, in her master closet in July 2019. "The moment I realized that we weren't going to make it to the hospital, I was, like, screaming,” the “Mommies Tell All” podcast cohost explained to Entertainment Tonight at the time. "It took my pain to a whole other level because it became fear. We were all in the closet. I’m, like, hunched over, clenching this bench. [The paramedics] got there in six minutes.” The Colorado native gave birth two minutes after their arrival. Her husband, Tanner Tolbert, told the outlet that he could see their baby boy’s “whole head” before medical personnel showed up. “He was crowning. I was there by myself [and saw] a head of hair, and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is actually going to happen.’" Roper chimed in, “He almost had to catch the baby on his own.” The Bachelor season 19 alum experienced “trauma from the birth,” she exclusively told Us Weekly nearly two years later, which made her second son Reed’s home birth “redemptive.” Roper explained in March 2021: “It was just really beautiful and peaceful. I don't know if that helped. Obviously, I [still] have the hard days. He's still not sleeping. He's up every two to three hours. We have hard days, but it's been such a different energy this time.” [sendtonews type="float" key="ShZjtyu910-2838727-14453"] As for Beck, the former professional volleyball player’s husband, Bode Miller, delivered their twin sons, Asher and Aksel, himself in November 2019. “None of the midwives actually made it on time,” the Olympian ski racer said during a Today show appearance at the time. "By the time they got there, me and my mom, [Jo Kenney], were both holding the babies. Luckily my mom was a midwife, but she hadn’t delivered babies in 20-plus years and had never delivered twins." Keep scrolling to see more celebrities’ wild birth confessions, from Pretty Little Liars’ Troian Bellisario crowning in the backseat of her car to singer Teyana Taylor welcoming her first — and second — child in a bathroom. [podcast_block]

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Jade Roper

"I accidentally gave birth at home last night, in our master closet,” the Bachelor Nation member wrote via Instagram in July 2019. "I’ve been still processing the shock of this all, as this was not all at what I had planned, but I am so, so thankful for each person who helped bring our son into the world safely."

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Troian Bellisario

Patrick J. Adams delivered his and the actress’ second child in May 2021 in a hospital parking garage. "She is still on all fours, butt facing the windshield,” the Suits alum recalled during a “Katie’s Crib” podcast episode that June. “Her butt’s at my head level, so I just go and pull down her pants, and [the baby’s] head is right there. … [There was] no room for panic."

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Morgan Beck

The athlete joked that he and his mom "were certainly not qualified to be” delivering twins.

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Alexi Ashe

"We're in the lobby and we're walking down the steps and my wife just says, 'I can't get in the car. I'm going to have the baby right now, the baby is coming,’” Seth Meyers said during an April 2018 episode of his show. "I looked at my wife, and the only way I can describe how my wife looked, was she looked like someone who was hiding a baby in a pair of sweatpants. It was like somebody was trying to, like, sneak a baby on a plane. We undressed her and the baby was just out. The head of the baby was out."

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Ryan Michelle Bathe

"She comes crawling out of the bathroom ... and she’s like ‘I think I’m crowning,’” Sterling K. Brown told Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest in 2017. After the This Is Us star “mansplained” to his wife, he realized she was, in fact, crowning. “Basically, she’s on all fours, I look down, the baby’s head is out,” Brown explained. “The midwife’s [over the phone saying], ‘That’s fantastic, just wait for Mommy to push again. Catch the baby so you can put him on Mommy’s chest and they can start bonding.’ And sure enough, my wife pushed a second time, [and] his body just wriggled out. I had a hand on the back of his head and on his bum. He cried immediately, so I didn’t have to rub him to make sure that he was breathing.”

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Teyana Taylor

Iman Shumpert used headphones in place of an umbilical clamp when his then-fiancée went into labor at their home in December 2015. Taylor called her baby girl’s arrival a “surprise,” writing via Instagram: "Not knowing I was in labor until I felt her head … it took two ten count pushes with my fiancé playing doctor and she entered this world into his bare hands.” Iman Jr.'s little sister, Rue, entered the world the same way five years later. “When we buy homes, we always find a bathroom with great energy, but not in a million years would you be able to tell me we’d deliver both of our daughters in a bathroom without the assistance of a hospital!” the singer joked via Instagram in September 2020.