Pregnant Jenna Dewan Shares Most Valuable Lesson Learned From Her Kids

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Jenna Dewan is nary rookie erstwhile it comes to parenting.

The Rookie actress, who is pregnant with her and fiancé Steve Kazee's 2nd baby, precocious shared penetration into engaged beingness with 2 kids. And this includes revealing the astir important acquisition she's learned raising daughter Everly, 10—whom she shares with ex-husband Channing Tatum—as good arsenic her and Steve's lad Callum, 4.

"I fto them beryllium who they are and I effort to conscionable usher them mildly without putting my ain docket connected them," the 43-year-old exclusively told E! News' Francesca Amiker astatine the Baby2Baby Mother's Day solemnisation successful Los Angeles April 23. "I truly conscionable effort to ticker them and larn from them and usher them."

This has helped fortify their bond. "If you are conscious astir it, you tin commencement to spot that they are reflecting backmost to you each aspects and antithetic aspects and it's similar a prism of yourself," she said. "So it's similar a precise beauteous and unthinkable learning, increasing relationship."

Jenna announced successful January that she is large with her and Steve's 2nd kid together. As they hole to grow their family, the Step Up alum is spending other one-on-one clip with Callum and Everly.

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"I wanna get successful my prime clip with some of them close now," she said, "knowing that my attraction volition beryllium benignant of divided coming up soon."

And that prime clip has been taking successful her kids' favourite activities. As she noted, "So tons of driving, tons of going to hoops and tons of going to Irish creation classes and tons of movie nights. We're truly soaking it up."

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On What She's Learned From Her Kids

"I fto them beryllium who they are and I effort to conscionable usher them mildly without putting my ain docket connected them," she told E! News' Francesca Amiker astatine the Baby2Baby Mother's Day solemnisation successful Los Angeles successful April 2024. "I truly conscionable effort to ticker them and larn from them and usher them."

This has helped fortify their bond. "If you are conscious astir it, you tin commencement to spot that they are reflecting backmost to you each aspects and antithetic aspects and it's similar a prism of yourself," the Rookie histrion said. "So it's similar a precise beauteous and unthinkable learning, increasing relationship."

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On Embracing Your True Self After Motherhood

"Apparently, erstwhile you go a mother, you're expected to permission your sexuality astatine the door, and I ne'er understood that," Jenna Dewan told Women's Health successful July 2018. "I deliberation there's thing sexier than becoming a mother. You springiness life. It's everything. And you don't alteration who you are wrong conscionable due to the fact that you person a kid."

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On Her Daughter’s Personal Style

The histrion besides gushed astir her girl Everly finding her ain consciousness of benignant astatine a young age. From dressing successful her favourite colors to rocking thing with glitter, she is each astir letting her girl effort caller looks.

"She has got the astir unsocial style. The girl picks retired her clothes every azygous morning. She is truthful funky. We went an full twelvemonth where she lone wore purple, but present we're much into thing that has glitter," she revealed to People successful Dec. 2017. "But she's tomboy, truthful she's got the large chunky sneakers with the leggings, with the tutu, anything that has glitter, magical anything. She's precise into that close now."

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On Giving Her Daughter Self-Confidence

Jenna knows the value of encouraging Everly and allowing her to physique self-confidence from a young age.

"Starting aboriginal and starting to physique her assurance successful her existent authenticity and herself is important, due to the fact that past erstwhile the influences travel successful that volition effort and archer her, ‘You're not great' and ‘You're not amazing,' she'll person that beardown consciousness of reminding," she shared with People successful 2017.

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On Feeling Empowered by Motherhood

The Soundtrack prima revealed that becoming a parent allowed her to consciousness much empowered.

"I judge that I tin bash and execute thing astatine immoderate constituent with immoderate magnitude of slumber with immoderate magnitude of stressors successful life," she explained to Us Weekly successful Oct. 2019. "[When you person a child], you cognize that you emotion thing and you tin perpetrate and dedicate yourself to thing truthful much, that you tin bash anything. [It] made maine consciousness precise empowered."

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On Expanding Her Family

Is determination thing sweeter than this pregnancy announcement? Jenna revealed that she was expecting her archetypal kid with Steve Kazee, her boyfriend, successful Sept. 2019 connected Instagram aft welcoming Everly with her ex-husband, Channing Tatum six years earlier.

She wrote, "Becoming a parent is rather simply the implicit champion astir unthinkable happening that has ever happened to me. @stevekazee you are a acquisition from supra and one couldn't beryllium much excited to beryllium expanding our household together...! Thank you guys for each the love!!"

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On Finding Balancing

The Resident histrion shared however her outlook connected enactment and uncovering equilibrium has evolved since giving commencement to Everly.

"My [daughter] Everly changed [everything] for me. Now I think, ‘What tin I bash to beryllium determination for her, and however agelong volition I beryllium distant for a project?' I accidental nary to a batch now," she said. "When you are a dancer, you are a hustler by nature…I was frightened but the beingness was like, ‘We got you.' I'm doing what I emotion much but I don't person to accidental yes each the time," she explained astatine The Wrap's Power Women Summit successful Oct. 2019.

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On Protecting Her Daughter

In 2019, Dewan released her archetypal book, Gracefully You: Finding Beauty and Balance successful the Everyday, and opened up astir her fears astir uncovering emotion again aft her divided from Tatum the erstwhile year. Her no. 1 interest was her daughter, of course!

"Then determination was my daughter. She's precise shy and comic and standoffish with men. It takes her a long clip to lukewarm up to others. I predicted this kid was going to beryllium jealous of whoever other I spent my clip with. How would I ever day with her blessing? My fears were going haywire," she wrote.

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On Her Unconditional Love for Everly

The erstwhile World of Dance big gushed astir Everly connected Instagram soon earlier her 5th birthday.

"And ohhhhh myyy goodnesssss to this small fairy babe close here. Thank you Everly for choosing maine arsenic your mother. I volition love, cherish and enactment you till the extremity of time. You thatch maine each azygous time and one americium continually successful awe of your spot and your wisdom. I can't judge this was astir 5 years ago....!!!! Love you bigger than the entity and each the stars," she posted.

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On Her Daughter’s Halloween Costumes

Dewan and her girl instrumentality Halloween seriously. In fact, Everly had 2 costumes for the spooky vacation successful 2019.

"We went done many, many sort of ideas and I yet said this is your deadline. You person to determine by today. She chose angel for the time and peacock astatine night," Dewan revealed connected GMA.

"All of the abrupt it was peacock. Peacock? I was like, 'Where did that travel from?' but she's precise excited," she continued.

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