Molly Ringwald Dishes About Her Pregnancy

Molly Ringwald is almost at the end of her pregnancy with twins, a boy and a girl. And she had time to talk to Eclipse Magazine about her role on The Secret Life Of An American Teenager, where she plays a mom of a pregnant teenager that has a baby of her own, and the impending babies. Here are the highlights.

On her film schedule for the show: Yes, I’m actually already on maternity leave. I shot about 12 episodes and then one day, I shot three episodes in one day, just my part. Then when I come back from maternity leave, then I’m shooting three episodes back; so, just sort of do the catch up. So, everybody else is still filming and I think that they are off in August, but I’ve been off since the end of May.

On how playing a mother to a teenager effects her real life: Well, it’s constantly interesting for me to play the mother of teenagers just because I’m not really there in my own life. I have a five-year-old and I’m pregnant with twins right now. So, it’s always interesting to me to kind of– It’s like sort of jumping ahead in my life and sort of living what I’m going to be living probably like 10 to 15 years from now. So, that’s always interesting. I feel almost like I’m so known for being a teenager and then all of a sudden, I’m the mother of a teenager. That’s always sort of a real head trip for me.

On from the perspective of a mother if her show portrays family accurately: I think so. I mean I think that every family is different. I don’t think that there’s any definitive way to portray a family. I think that this is the way that this family functions, but I think obviously it’s different in other families. But, I think that Brenda does a pretty good job of sort of doing that family dynamic – the sort of sibling rivalries, the little arguments. Yes, I think it’s pretty realistic.

On the show writing in her pregnancy: I actually preferred that. It was a question as to whether or not they would write it in and I preferred it. I did not want to go through a whole season of walking around with towels in front of me. So, that was something that was discussed and they just decided to go with it. I also just thought that it was interesting considering the fact that my daughter was pregnant in the previous season, having her go through the whole thing again and having my grandchild be older than my new child is kind of funny too. It’s sort of like different.

I hope that she doesn’t have to wait much longer for the twins. But what an exciting time for their family.

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