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Happy Mum Happy Baby

Jessica Brown Findlay on navigating fertility and twin parenting

Happy Mum Happy Baby

Giovanna Fletcher

Kids & Family

4.85.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week Giovanna is joined by the incredible Jessica Brown Findlay! Jessica is an actor, perhaps best known for her role as Lady Sybil in Downton Abbey.


She opens up to Gi about becoming a mum to twin boys via IVF, and the complicated feelings she experienced around her friends' pregnancies whilst struggling with her own fertility.


Jessica also discusses how pregnancy affected her acting career, plus makes us all fall a little bit in love with her husband Ziggy!



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0:00.0

Coming up on Happy Mom, Happy Baby.

0:04.0

It's a very complicated feeling, especially with people that you love, of seeing their children grow up.

0:10.0

It's a very visual timeline of how long you haven't had a baby.

0:16.0

When their baby is now like, hi, you know, like, can you come and do this thing with me, please?

0:23.0

It ended up being, I know this sounds really strange.

0:27.3

My voice is a warbly.

0:29.4

We had this very romantic, very, very beautiful day.

0:34.6

I've never known anyone who can be honestly in deep feeling of sadness and still find joy.

0:42.8

He doesn't sort of push it away and try and pretend everything's fine. It was a very funny

0:48.5

process telling people that we were having twins. We would say, oh, I'm pregnant. And they'd be like, oh.

0:55.6

And then we're like, with twins, they're like, oh.

0:58.1

And it was like these two versions of like shot, like these,

1:01.7

but the tone was so different.

1:05.4

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