If Sarah Jessica Parker could turn back time, she’d relive childbirth once more.
“If I could revisit one moment in my life, it would be the birth of my children, definitely,” the actress revealed in an interview with Net-A-Porter’s The Edit. “I only got to give birth once. James is like, ‘Why do you always want to talk about that?!’ I’m like, ‘Because it’s the greatest.'”
Parker, 51, gave birth to her and Matthew Broderick‘s son in 2002, before welcoming daughters Marion Loretta and Tabitha Hodge via surrogate in June 2009.
“There is this suspended animation around [birth]: everything goes away; the entire world is sucked up; time suspends. It’s just you and, in my case, my husband, and this child, and it’s absolute euphoria,” she said.
While Parker has embraced motherhood, expanding her family with Broderick wasn’t without complications. Weeks before the birth of their daughters, the “Divorce” star opened up about why the couple looked to a surrogate.
“We actually have explored a variety of ways of doing so,” Parker told “Access Hollywood” at the time. “This was one of the things we discussed with seriousness that had real possibilities for us.”
Though Parker didn’t disclose the experience in its entirety, the “Sex and the City” star explained that surrogacy was one of the couple’s only options.
“It would be complicated,” she said. “It would be odd to have made this choice if I was able to, you know, have successful pregnancies since my son’s birth.”
But eventually, with some luck, the family of three would become a family of five.
“We didn’t expect it. I think after a certain amount of time, you tend to hold your hopes at bay a bit so as not to be disappointed,” she said. “One really would have been thrilling and we would’ve felt incredibly lucky. And two was a comedy.”