Orlando Bloom Struggled To Watch Miranda Kerr’s Labour
July 19, 2011 by Hollywoodite
Orlando Bloom is kind of a wimp, according to a wife who endured pain-free childbirth while her husband winced and joked about needing his own pain medication to help him cope watching her go through that kind of pain. At the time of her birth announcement, Miranda Kerr made it clear she’d been all about the suffering, the martyrdom, and going through as much pain as was humanly tolerable in the name of birthing her gorgeous, enormous, baby boy, Flynn Christopher Blanchard Copeland Bloom (named in part after Christopher Middlebrook, a teenager whom Kerr dated who later passed away). At the time, she wrote on her website that she and her son were healthy and soon after we saw a picture of mother and son bonding as she breastfed.
In a recent interview with InStyle, Kerr admitted it wasn’t all roses and chanting; she was in mind-blowing pain and feared the labour would actually kill her, it hurt that bad. “I actually thought I was going to die at one point and left my body,” Kerr said. “I was looking down on myself; the pain was so intense.” During the “long and difficult” labour, Kerr pondered, “How do women do this? But if other women have done this, I can do it too. I was determined.” She was, Bloom, not so much. By her retelling, he whimpered through the entire thing. In a new interview with Australian TV show, Sunday Night, Kerr shares some more details about the birth. Namely, Bloom’s joking request for meds.
“I had made the decision to not have any drugs, no epidural, nothing. Each to their own. I’m crazy for doing that! A lot of my friends who have had epidurals have said, ‘Oh (labor) was so great’.” Asked if her resolve wavered at any point during the labor, she admitted: “I remember looking at Orlando and saying ‘Oh honey.’ And he said, ‘Give me the epidural! Seriously, if you don’t want it I’ll take it because right now I’m dying watching you go through this pain’. I didn’t realize (Flynn) was going to be such a big baby.”
So, she admits it was madness to endure that level of pain with medication in the room to relieve the worst of her symptoms. There was probably enough to go around to give Bloom a pity shot too. Their son was “a big baby, 4.5 kilograms at birth.” Not that one gathers that has anything to do with it. And, besides, according to Gisele Bunchen, labour “didn’t hurt in the slightest” (she does say a lot of unforgivably vapid things, though).
