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Christina Ricci will get that it’s not all the time about age. The Penelope star, 42, opened up about her children, revealing that her 9 month outdated toddler Cleopatra is ready to sleep alone in a crib, however her eight yr outdated son Freddie nonetheless isn’t fairly there but. “The truth that I can put her down in her crib and she or he simply goes to sleep when my 8-year-old nonetheless sleeps with me is superb,” the actress instructed PEOPLE journal on September 26, joking that it’s a “f***ing miracle” that her child is sleep skilled.

The Sleepy Hole magnificence then launched into the individualities of her two kiddos, saying that when she tried the identical sleep coaching with Freddie, he “screamed himself hoarse and began banging his head towards the crib railing,” so she needed to pull again. “However with Cleo, after we determined to strive it and see how she would react to it, she simply type of whined for about seven minutes after which laid down, clutched her little unicorn and went to sleep. It was like she was prepared and she or he wished to do it, and it was proper for her.”
Christina, who turned a cult darling with darkish movies like Prozac Nation and Addams Household Values and grew right into a family identify, first turned a mom when she gave delivery to Freddie with ex-husband James Heerdegen in August 2014. She filed for divorce from James in July 2020, and later turned pregnant with little Cleopatra. Christina married hair stylist Mark Hampton in October of 2021 forward of the delivery of their daughter on December 8.

To date, it seems her two infants are getting alongside famously, and the Yellowjackets actress admits she pays Freddie to play together with her daughter “for 20 minutes at a time in her little playpen,” and says that “he’s actually useful” with Cleo. “He may help me make a bottle. He may help me within the bathtub together with her. It’s actually nice,” she instructed the journal. “There hasn’t been lots of sibling jealousy or something. That has been an enormous reduction.”