Ricki Lake gives birth in her bathtub…and films it
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Here’s a documentary I’ll be watching with a hand over my eyes: Ricki Lake’s “The Business of Being Born,� which features the Hastings-born actress cum talk show host “naked in the bathtub of her West Village apartment, delivering her second child, Owen,� according to New York Magazine.
Her message to expectant moms: think twice about having your little junior born in the sterile white halls of America’s hospitals. She says doctors recommend Cesareans too oftenâ€â€some hospitals in the area have Cesarean rates over 40 percent (an epidemic I had no idea about).
Lake’s movie will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and the woman who once played Tracy Turnblad in the original “Hairspray� tells the magazine she’s prepared for it by losing 24 pounds.
And just to leave all of you with one final please-god-make-it-go-away image, here’s what else the 38-year old star told NY Mag: Still “to this day my assistant talks about how she had to clean up my bathtub afterward.�
Seriously!!?!?? You made your assistant clean up your post birthing gunk-filled bathtub? Wow!
(AP Photo/Danny Moloshok)
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Ick.
Ricki is cool, no matter what she does. Now that the View has a vacancy in the host chair, she would be the ideal choice to replace Rosie.
Ricki would be awesome as a host on the view. Whatever direction she goes into I wish her the best