He may have been the answer to a prayer. But that doesn’t mean it’s always easy for Halle Berry with her 7-month-old son Maceo.
For one thing, the Oscar winner says there’s a marked difference in how her baby boy breastfeeds compared to how her 6-year-old daughter Nahla did when she was an infant.
“When I would put Nahla on the boob, she would go [Berry makes a pucker face and light sucking sound]. A nice little girly suck,” the X-Men: Days of Future Past star says in an appearance Tuesday on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “With him, it’s like [she imitates a chomping suck]. He’s like sucking the life out of me! So I see the difference between boys and girls.”
“That was TMI in my opinion, but okay,” DeGeneres jokes.
“I just want everyone to know that I know the difference,” says Berry. “Boys and girls are different from the time they get here. They really, really are.”
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That said, Maceo — whom Berry and husband Olivier Martinez welcomed in October — really was an answer to a prayer. And it turns out that prayer came from Nahla.
“She prayed and prayed for him for like a year and a half, for a baby and a bunk bed, and she got both of those things,” says Berry.
“He’s like one of her dollies that came to life. And all she wants to do is change his clothes. Like she’ll purposely like throw something on his shirt and say, ‘Oh, Mommy, he’s got to change his shirt. He has a mess on him!’ She just likes to change his clothes, change his diapers … She’s a good helper.”
Frankly, Berry herself is surprised she was able to have another child at 47.
“I didn’t think it was possible at my age, honestly,” she says. “They call it a geriatric pregnancy. This is probably way TMI, but I was really, you know, kind of premenopausal, so to have this happen was a huge … Only her prayers could have done this.”
– Tim Nudd
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