Celebrities Who Chose to Have Natural Childbirths: Hilary Duff, Gisele Bundchen, Mayim Bialik and More

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Celebrities Who Chose to Have Natural Childbirths: Hilary Duff, Gisele Bundchen, Mayim Bialik and More

Au naturel! Mila Kunis talked about her plans to have a natural birth ahead of welcoming her first child with husband Ashton Kutcher. “We watched a couple of documentaries and we looked into the midwife aspect of it and things, and spoke to my OB/GYN and realized that the hospital that I’m going to be laboring in does a midwife, you know, doula type of thing,” Kunis said during a May 2014 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “So, I’m gonna do it as all-natural as I possibly can unless there’s an emergency or something.” The That ‘70s Show costars welcomed their son Wyatt that November. While telling host Ellen DeGeneres that she was also going to forgo an epidural, the Black Swan actress joked, “I mean, I did this to myself. I might as well do it right.” She and the No Strings Attached actor also share son Dimitri, born in November 2016. [sendtonews type="float" key="BEizQPQS7m-2830749-14453"] Kunis and Kutcher aren’t the only Hollywood stars to opt for natural childbirth. Mayim Bialik penned a blog post for Today in May 2011 urging women to consider home births. In the article, the Big Bang Theory alum addressed common fears including pain and complications. “Birth is intense. Squeezing a baby out of your body is a challenge, no matter what your ‘pain tolerance,’” she wrote. “However, our culture medicates routinely for a variety of ‘normal’ emotional experiences (encouraging medication for people in the early stages of grief comes to mind) and medicating for the emotions of birth is no exception.” The Jeopardy! host shares two children with her ex-husband, Michael Stone: Miles, born in 2005, and Frederick, born in 2008. “My second son was born at our house, in the middle of our living room, just under three hours after my labor began,” she wrote for Today. Bialik and Stone finalized their divorce in 2013 after a decade of marriage. In 2016, the UCLA alum said in a YouTube video that she did not see divorce as “the end of a family.” “It’s the end of the nuclear family,” she explained. “It’s the end of a family living in one house. But we still have responsibilities to each other’s families, and to our children as a family. I still talk to my ex-husband’s mother, father, grandparents, aunts and uncles.” Scroll through to see the Hollywood stars who have spoken about having natural childbirths: [podcast_block]

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Celebrities Who Chose to Have Natural Childbirths: Hilary Duff, Gisele Bundchen, Mayim Bialik and More

Au naturel! Mila Kunis talked about her plans to have a natural birth ahead of welcoming her first child with husband Ashton Kutcher. “We watched a couple of documentaries and we looked into the midwife aspect of it and things, and spoke to my OB/GYN and realized that the hospital that I’m going to be laboring in does a midwife, you know, doula type of thing,” Kunis said during a May 2014 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “So, I’m gonna do it as all-natural as I possibly can unless there’s an emergency or something.” The That ‘70s Show costars welcomed their son Wyatt that November. While telling host Ellen DeGeneres that she was also going to forgo an epidural, the Black Swan actress joked, “I mean, I did this to myself. I might as well do it right.” She and the No Strings Attached actor also share son Dimitri, born in November 2016. [sendtonews type="float" key="BEizQPQS7m-2830749-14453"] Kunis and Kutcher aren’t the only Hollywood stars to opt for natural childbirth. Mayim Bialik penned a blog post for Today in May 2011 urging women to consider home births. In the article, the Big Bang Theory alum addressed common fears including pain and complications. “Birth is intense. Squeezing a baby out of your body is a challenge, no matter what your ‘pain tolerance,’” she wrote. “However, our culture medicates routinely for a variety of ‘normal’ emotional experiences (encouraging medication for people in the early stages of grief comes to mind) and medicating for the emotions of birth is no exception.” The Jeopardy! host shares two children with her ex-husband, Michael Stone: Miles, born in 2005, and Frederick, born in 2008. “My second son was born at our house, in the middle of our living room, just under three hours after my labor began,” she wrote for Today. Bialik and Stone finalized their divorce in 2013 after a decade of marriage. In 2016, the UCLA alum said in a YouTube video that she did not see divorce as “the end of a family.” “It’s the end of the nuclear family,” she explained. “It’s the end of a family living in one house. But we still have responsibilities to each other’s families, and to our children as a family. I still talk to my ex-husband’s mother, father, grandparents, aunts and uncles.” Scroll through to see the Hollywood stars who have spoken about having natural childbirths: [podcast_block]

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Hilary Duff

After having her son Luca in a hospital in 2012, the Lizzie McGuire alum welcomed daughters Banks and Mae at home in 2018 and 2021, respectively.

“You’re bringing a baby into the world, that’s some of the hardest work you can do,” Duff said during a February 2022 appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “And they don’t let you have water in the hospital, or food or snacks, and you’re about to work the hardest you’ve ever worked to push a baby out.” 

The How I Met Your Father star shared photos from Mae’s home birth on Instagram.

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Mila Kunis

The Family Guy actress told DeGeneres that she decided to have a doula and skip pain medication after watching "a couple of documentaries" about childbirth.

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Gisele Bündchen

The Brazilian model had a water birth for her son Benjamin in December 2009. “I wanted to be conscious and present for what was happening,” she explained during a February 2010 interview with the Brazilian TV show Fantastico. “I didn’t want to be anesthetized. I wanted to feel.”

Despite not being medicated, Bündchen insisted that the experience “wasn’t painful, not even a little bit.” She shares Benjamin and daughter Vivian, born in 2012, with husband Tom Brady.

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Miranda Kerr

Kerr didn’t have as painless of an experience as her fellow former Victoria’s Secret Angel.

“I actually thought I was going to die at one point and left my body,” the model told Australian InStyle for their July 2011 issue. “I was looking down on myself, the pain was so intense.”

The Treasure Yourself author chose not to have an epidural during the July 2011 delivery of her son Flynn, whom she shares with her ex-husband, Orlando Bloom. Kerr also has two sons with husband Evan Spiegel: Hart, born in 2018, and Myles, born in 2019.

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Alyson Hannigan

The How I Met Your Mother alum had her daughter Satyana at home in March 2009 with the help of a midwife. “For me, that was just the perfect place. I am absolutely terrified of hospitals,” she told the Daily Herald in March 2012, adding that a doctor who insisted she have a hospital birth “scared us tremendously.”

The American Pie actress also welcomed daughter Keeva with her husband Alexis Denisof in May 2012.

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Mayim Bialik

In a blog post for Today, Bialik stated that she used “self-hypnosis” to manage pain during both of her labors as well as “the greatest power of all: the power of my mind to force out the notion that pain with purpose — labor — is something to fear.”

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Cindy Crawford

The model and actress shared her home births experience in March 2020, as many expectant mothers wondered if hospitals were a safe place to give birth amid coronavirus concerns.

In an Instagram Live, Crawford described welcoming her children Presley and Kaia at home in 1999 and 2001, respectively.

“I would never push anyone or talk anyone into doing home birth,” she said. “I just think it’s nice to know it’s an option that is available.”