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Maya Rudolph On Accepting Imperfections As a Mom

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While pregnant with daughter Pearl Bailey, now 3 ½, Maya Rudolph admits that she harbored a “fantasy” about what kind of mom she would go on to be. Theory clashed with result, however, when Maya realized — like most moms do — that having a baby sometimes doesn’t change everything. “You’re still the same person, the same things still bother you, you’re not perfect,” she explains. “But you can still be someone’s parent, someone’s mother, and it can still be okay.”

“There’s no question that you want to give them everything and you want their lives to be perfect. Has any human achieved that? No, probably not.”

In an interview conducted by her Away We Go co-star John Krasinski for BlackBook, Maya opens up about the moment Pearl was born. A delivery surprise, the big reveal was delayed even longer than usual! “When she finally came out, there was a really quick snip and suddenly, she was resting on my chest, staring at me,” Maya explains. “And her eyes were super-black. She looked like Marlon Brando in The Island of Doctor Moreau, because she was covered in all of these white blankets staring at me.”

“I remember, in that moment, thinking, ‘Yes, this is my baby.’ I’d always tried to picture what my baby would look like, and in that second, I was like, ‘Yes, this is the baby I’ve been expecting.’ And then the doctor said, ‘Oops, we forgot to see what it was.’ I didn’t know if it was a boy or a girl, but I knew it was my baby.”

That feeling has only been reinforced as Pearl has grown. Deemed the “coolest girl I’ve ever met” by John, Maya says that the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree. “Let’s put it this way: If she had come out as a total wallflower, and said stuff like, ‘I hate reading and I don’t like to perform,’ then I’d be like, ‘That’s not my kid,’” Maya says. “So it doesn’t really surprise me that she’s like, ‘Hey, I’m funny and I like to hang out.’”

“There’s no question: you get that proud mom grin sometimes, when it’s like, Check it out. That’s my kid. But, yeah, she is who I thought she’d be in a lot of ways.”

Click below to read about how Maya drew on her previous pregnancy experience for Away We Go.

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Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett: Date Night!

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Kendra Wilkinson cuddles up to fiancé Hank Baskett at the Los Angeles Film Festival’s screening of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on Monday in Westwood, Calif.

“This is my wedding gift to him,” the former Girls Next Door star told PEOPLE about treating Hank to an evening out days before their June 27th nuptials.

Kendra, 24, shares that she is 14 weeks along in her pregnancy, with a due date around Christmas. As for whispers that the couple, who became engaged in November, are moving quickly, Kendra brushes aside the rumors.

“We are so excited for all this. We couldn’t ask for anything better to happen in our lives. It’s time for this to happen,” she explains. “Everybody is like, ‘Are you rushing things?’ I’m like, ‘This is what we want! This is our life.’”

“If we weren’t moving too fast then we would be moving way too slow. This is us. [The wedding] is going on as planned. The only different thing for me is that I won’t be drinking. I’ll be drinking Martinelli’s apple juice!”