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New Mom Cobie Smulders 'Functioning On Fumes'

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Motherhood may still be “very, very new” for Cobie Smulders, who welcomed her first child last May, but the serious lack of shuteye is quickly catching up with her!

“I think I sleep an average of four hours a night now and so it’s just functioning on fumes sometimes,” she jokes during a Monday visit to The Bonnie Hunt Show.

Fortunately, the actress has been commiserating with her How I Met Your Mother costar Alyson Hannigan, who welcomed Satyana Marie only seven weeks before Cobie’s daughter Shaelyn Cado was born.

“[There are] a lot of play dates and time on set in the nursery,” reveals the actress.

And while both baby girls sport somewhat unusual monikers, Cobie, 27, laughs that her daughter’s name is “normal” in comparison to her own!

“My full name is Jacoba Francisca Maria Smulders, that’s a mouthful!” she laughs. “Hopefully she won’t be teased too much. I went with it because I liked Shay and I had never really heard it before.”

After initially keeping the birth announcement under wraps, Cobie remains optimistic that her daughter will stay out of the spotlight. “I hate to say no to anything, but from my personal experience, I would like to leave her out of it,” she stresses. “I think it is a rejection thing and it’s a hard business for a woman to be in.”

However, should Shaelyn have a change of heart when she’s older, Cobie is prepared to cheer her on from the sidelines. “If it’s what she wants to do, then it’s what she wants to do,” she concedes.

Shaelyn is Cobie’s first child with fiancé Taran Killam.

Source: The Bonnie Hunt Show

– Anya

Edie Falco: My Kids Look Like Fabio and Chucky!

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If Edie Falco‘s son and daughter become child actors, they won’t be cast in the same movies. In fact, they’ll work different genres.

That’s because Anderson, 5, looks like Fabio, the famed romance-novel cover boy, while daughter Macy, 2, looks like a sweet version of Chucky, the murderous doll, Edie told PEOPLE at a Drama League gala honoring Angela Lansbury in New York on Monday.

“He’s just a spectacularly beautiful little blond boy,” the Emmy-winning Sopranos and Nurse Jackie actress, 46, said of Anderson, whom she adopted in 2005. “And I’m not just saying that because I’m his mom.”

Macy, meanwhile, adopted in 2008, “has bright red hair and blue eyes. She looks like Chucky,” Edie said. “She likes to say ‘Maaa! Maaa!’ in a [loud] scary voice, because she knows it cracks me up. I’m a cheap date. I laugh my head off. She really is like a devil.”

Central Casting issues aside, the single mom says raising kids is “the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” but that both of her children are delightful in their own way.

Macy, she says, is “the most spectacularly beautiful, funny, smart thing I’ve ever seen,” while Anderson is “smart and clever and creative, and he breaks my heart.”

As for her own celebrity doppelgänger, Edie says she has two: Ellen DeGeneres and Felicity Huffman.

“Every time I see Ellen, we pass stories back and forth how we are mistaken for each other,” she says. Other times, “the fans say, ‘Felicity, we love you.’ And I say, ‘I love her, too.’ What are you going to do?”

– Jeffrey Slonim