Jennifer Lawrence Confesses She Worried She Wouldn't Love Her Son As Much As Her Cat

Jennifer Lawrence shared she didn’t fairly know what to anticipate when she stepped into the world of motherhood.

The “Don’t Look Up” actor — who grew to become a first-time mother in February when she welcomed a son with husband Cooke Maroney — revealed she had issues, together with whether or not she might love her child as a lot as her cat.

In a current interview with Vogue, Lawrence opened up concerning the “scary” sides of parenting that always go undiscussed.

“It’s so scary to speak about motherhood. Solely as a result of it’s so totally different for everyone,” she admitted.

“If I say, ‘It was superb from the beginning,’ some folks will assume, ‘It wasn’t superb for me at first,’ and really feel dangerous,” Lawrence defined. “Luckily I've so many girlfriends who had been trustworthy. Who had been like, ‘It’s scary. You won't join immediately. You won't fall in love immediately.’”

Actor Jennifer Lawrence welcomed her first little one in February 2022.

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Getting candid, Lawrence shared a narrative a couple of dialog she had with one in all her pals earlier than her son Cy was born.

“I bear in mind strolling with one in all my greatest pals at, like, 9 months, and being like, ‘Everybody retains saying that I'll love my child greater than my cat. However that’s not true. Possibly I’ll love him as a lot as my cat?’”

Regardless of not figuring out what to anticipate, Lawrence gushed that she fell in love with Cy immediately.

“The morning after I gave delivery, I felt like my entire life had began over,” she mentioned. “Like, ‘Now's day one in all my life.’ I simply stared. I used to be simply so in love.”

Since changing into a dad or mum, the main woman mentioned, her “coronary heart has stretched to a capability that I didn’t learn about.”

She added, “I additionally fell in love with all infants in every single place. Newborns are simply so superb. They’re these pink, swollen, fragile little survivors. Now I really like all infants. Now I hear a child crying in a restaurant and I’m like, ‘Awwww, preciousssss.’”

Lawrence and Maroney, who had been first linked in June 2018, obtained engaged in February 2019 and tied the knot the next October.