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Genevieve Padaleckiis recalling the difficult circumstances she dealt with amid her second pregnancy.
TheTowwn founder, 42, explained that her sister, Sarah, experienced a “really traumatic brain injury” early in her pregnancy with Shep.
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Genevieve learned the difficult news while abroad with the thenSupernaturalstar— with whom she also shares daughterOdette Elliott, 6, and son Thomas Colton, 11.
“We were actually in Rome at aSupernaturalconvention, and he wasdoing a fan conventionin Rome, and we found the news out, and so immediately had to get on a plane, and I had a toddler and I was pregnant, and I had to quickly go into ‘putting your oxygen mask on first and make making sure okay I’m okay, my son’s okay, my husband’s okay,’ " she recalled. “So I had to make sure those things were okay before I could be there for my mom and my sister.”
“I also learned a bit from Jared at the time because he’s like, ‘We’ve been here a month, I need togo back to Texas, I need to kind of see my family, I need to regroup,’ because we had been working nonstop then this happened. So I actually ended up learning a lot from him, that it’s okay to take a time out and that’s not a selfish thing, that’s actually an act of love and that really helped.”
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TheWalkeractressexplained that she leaned into intuition and prayer during that time, but that it was “very, very difficult” nonetheless.
When it came to handling everything she experienced during that time, “I think I just had to stay as calm as possible and be as rooted and grounded in whatever capacity I could.”
“And it’s hard to not get wrapped up in that emotion as well and take that on, so I had to be really careful with boundaries,” she noted.
source: people.com
