Julie Lakeis officially a mom!
While the new mom revealed in her conversation withETthat she was “never was 100 percent sure if I wanted kids,” she and her husband “eventually [decided] to just go for it.”
“The biggest change is that I am so in love with Miles and he is the mostmagical thing that has ever happened tome,” Lake added. “I’m excited to be with him every day and watch him grow, and I feel like life has meaning, joy and fulfillment in a whole new way. I feel like life is starting over again and everything is better now.”
Lake also shared the birth news on Instagram,captioning her announcement, “I’m strapped to a breast pump as I type this — how life has changed! Pregnancy was rough. I gained 60lbs and threw up the entire time, but now I’m loving every minute with my magical little dude.”
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Julie Lake (L) onOrange Is the New Black.Jojo Whilden/Netflix
Lake firstshared with PEOPLEin June that she was expecting, saying, “It’s all a crazy leap into the unknown. It’ll be an adventure but I am very excited about it!”
“I was so scared,” she said. “I was like, ‘Wait, let’s not do it!’ I peed on the stick and then was like, ‘No, no, I can’t do this, just throw it away! Don’t look at it, we’ll figure it out later. We’ll do it when you get back!’ ”
And according to Lake, her television-writer husbandwas “really happy and excited”to hear the test came back positive, because he’d always wanted to be a dad.
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But, for Lake,being a mother was ultimatelysomething she knew was in her future.
“I just couldn’t really see my life without having a family,” she said.
source: people.com
