How Bryce Dallas Howard found out she was pregnant and more
Spider-Man 3 star Bryce Dallas Howard stopped by The Tonight Show withJay Leno and revealed how she discovered she was pregnant with Theo,now 2 months, and Jay’s connection to the birth.
Bryce and her husband Seth Gabel tied the knot in June and she learned she was pregnant a week later on a Turkish cruise ship. Inlieu of a honeymoon, the two went on a family reunion with Bryce’sfamily in Turkey, during which she started to feel ill and decided totake a pregnancy test. Her father, Ron Howard, Seth, her uncles andgrandfather purchased a test for her, but she hit a roadblock when shefound out the entire test was in Turkish.
I proceeded to go around to every single staff member of thisboat and say, you know, ‘Do you speak Turkish?’ And nobody did. So then itdawned on me, I should call the Turkish tour guide and try to get him to translate it.
Bryce called him up and recited each letter to him.
We got to the end of that phrase and I was like, ‘Okay, so what does thatmean?’ And he said, ‘Put the stick between your legs and urinate.’ Finallywe got down to the bottom and he figured out and said, ‘Congratulations,you’re pregnant.’
As previously reported, Bryce had planned for a homebirth, but eventually gave birth at the hospital with Jay’s indirect help.
[Myparents] were at my house when I went into labor. The midwife barelymade it. They were walking upstairs with tea kettles full of hot water,thinking they were in some kind of John Wayne film, and the last minutewe had to transport to the hospital. And the midwife was like, ‘Ok,hurry, hurry. Let’s go right now. Let’s go.’ And I just started walkingoutside, not realizing, of course, that I was completely nude. And mydad actually grabbed a bathrobe from your show, so I gave birth in yourbathrobe.
Theo’s birth is documented, thanks to some co-directing from herparents. Although Ron is an Academy Award-winning director, hecouldn’t rise to the occasion in the delivery room.
You wouldthink he’s this amazing filmmaker and his composition would be soelegant, poignant. But he was totally freaked out of his mind, so itwas basically our feet the entire time. And then my mom grabbed it andshe started shooting. And so you see the birth and then pan to the leftand you see my dad hiding behind the curtain just, like, green, like,’Oh my God!’ And my mom’s hand-gesturing, like, ‘Get over here rightnow! Your daughter’s giving birth!’
