{"id":30915,"date":"2021-07-29T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T05:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=198061"},"modified":"2021-07-29T08:16:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T08:16:52","slug":"mandy-moore-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/mandy-moore-motherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandy Moore Says Being A New Mother Was \u201cStrangely Isolating\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In February, Mandy Moore and her husband Taylor Goldsmith welcomed their first child<\/a>, a baby boy named August. In a conversation on Instagram live with licensed psychologist and perinatal mental health specialist, Dr. Ashurina Ream, the actress has admitted the experience was isolating at times.<\/p>\n

“I had these preconceived notions of myself going into motherhood,” Moore said. “Obviously, I knew it was going to be challenging, but I thought, \u2018Oh, I maybe have this sort of naturally maternal side,’ whatever the heck that means. But I guess I just didn’t really recognize the worries, the fears, the sense of responsibility that is so ever-present moving forward once you become a mom.”<\/p>\n

She continued, “I guess when I imagined motherhood, I sort of imagined like, oh, you find community\u2026 and you go to Mommy-and-Me classes and baby classes.”<\/p>\n

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