'Supergirl' star Laura Benanti and husband Patrick Brown welcome second child Louisa via surrogacy
Tony Award-winning actress Laura Benanti welcomed her second child with her husband Patrick Brown. The 'Gossip Girl' actress took to Instagram to share the news of her second child's birth via surrogacy. The post sees the baby, Louisa Georgia Benanti-Brown holding on to her elder sister, Ella Rose's finger while the second image showed the child smiling as she cradled Louisa in her arms.
The actress is best known for playing twin sisters Alura and Astra in 'Supergirl' and Judy Wright in Andrew Garfield's musical 'Tick, Tick...Boom!' She married Patrick Brown in 2015 and had Ella in 2017. The heartfelt caption on Instagram saw her talk about the birth of the child and called her children the "rainbow sisters".
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"Please welcome to the world Louisa Georgia Benanti-Brown," she wrote in her post. "On July 9th at 2:43 am we were blessed with the arrival of our second daughter. Like many, the journey towards growing our family has had many challenges," she added. "However, our journey has also been marked by the privilege to pursue different paths to grow our family. Specifically, our remarkable surrogate (an angel-on-earth) who carried our precious girl and delivered her into our arms." She called it "an other-worldly generosity of spirit, body, and kindness that can never be repaid" before finishing off with "Ella and Louisa 🌈 Rainbow babies. Rainbow sisters."
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Per People, Benanti wrote her book, 'M is for MAMA (and also Merlot): A Modern Mom's ABCs' with fellow performer Kate Mangiameli and shared her thoughts in postpartum depression to the outlet. "[Kate and I] both had postpartum depression after our children were born," she said. "I was not able to see the humor in things in a way that I usually am, and so it was important to me that we be able to bring some levity to a situation that can often feel like life or death. You're keeping a human alive and that can be a lot of pressure, so I think any opportunity that we have to laugh is a positive one," Benanti added.