Mena Suvari is preparing to welcome her first child any day now.
And the American Beauty star is already basking in the glow of motherhood, ahead of her March due date.
She recently opened up about the ‘surreal’ experience of going through her first pregnancy in her 40s, as she and husband Michael Hope prepare to welcome a baby boy.
Surreal pregnancy: Mena Suvari recently opened up about the ‘surreal’ experience of going through her first pregnancy in her 40s, as she and husband Michael Hope prepare to welcome a baby boy (pictured in August, 2019)
The 41-year-old told ET Online: ‘I feel really lucky, and it’s just wild. It truly feels like the most important thing that I will ever do in my life. Like, nothing else matters. Everything just changes in your life. He’ll come first.’
She revealed that she still gets panic attacks while setting up the nursery and reading books, which she chalks up to ‘that first time mom craziness.’
Suvari added that she’s hoping for a home birth: ‘But I feel really lucky that I have a great group of women. I have an amazing midwife, a doula and I already have postpartum doulas that I’m talking to.’
She also explained how she found out she was pregnant: ‘I went away in August to work on a film and I thought I’d be jet lagged for a while. But I wasn’t jet lagged.’
Really lucky: The 41-year-old told ET Online: ‘I feel really lucky, and it’s just wild. It truly feels like the most important thing that I will ever do in my life. Like, nothing else matters. Everything just changes in your life. He’ll come first’
‘Mom craziness’: She revealed that she still gets panic attacks while setting up the nursery and reading books, which she chalks up to ‘that first time mom craziness’
Second opinion: The Sugar & Spice actress was previously told by doctors that she wouldn’t be able to conceive due to her age, even though she didn’t ‘feel 40’
‘I was driving to work every day, but I’d be like, crying on the way to work. I’d be like, bawling on the freeway,’ she continued, which she thought was because she’s ‘just an emotional person.’
The Sugar & Spice actress was previously told by doctors that she wouldn’t be able to conceive due to her age, even though she didn’t ‘feel 40.’
She said: ‘One of the biggest gifts that [my doctor] gave me when I came back from filming in August was he said, “I am so happy that you trusted in your body that you listened to your body.”
‘And that just meant the world to me, because I spent so much time doubting it and having emotional breakdowns over it, thinking, “It’s all over.” And it wasn’t.’
Suvari and husband Michael Hope revealed their pregnancy to People back in October, two years after tying the knot in October of 2018.
Onscreen mom: Meanwhile, she’s been promoting her new movie Don’t Tell a Soul, in which she plays the mother of two teenage boys (Jack Dylan Grazer and Fionn Whitehead), who face deadly consequences after stealing more than $12,000
Drive-in premiere: Suvari showed off her baby bump Friday night at the drive-in premiere
She said: ‘It’s still this process for me of believing it and accepting that something this beautiful could happen for me. It’s been a very emotional experience. It’s very weird finding out — I was like, I can’t believe it!’
The American Pie actress told Access this week that they’re naming their son Christopher Alexander: ‘We’re naming him after my husband’s father who passed away when he was really young. Bringing it back around.’
Meanwhile, she’s been promoting her new movie Don’t Tell a Soul, in which she plays the mother of two teenage boys (Jack Dylan Grazer and Fionn Whitehead), who face deadly consequences after stealing more than $12,000.
Suvari showed off her baby bump Friday night at the drive-in premiere, writing on Instagram: ‘Such a blast tonight with my @dtasfilm famm to celebrate the premiere of #DontTellASoul!’
Parents-to-be: Suvari and husband Michael Hope revealed their pregnancy to People back in October, two years after tying the knot in October of 2018 (pictured in January, 2018)