Originally appeared on E! Online.
Mandy Moore is expressing her feelings about saying goodbye to a chapter of her motherhood journey.
The “This Is Us” alum shared she will likely not be pregnant again after welcoming children Gus Harrison, 4, Ozzie Bennett, 3, and Louise Everett, 16 months, with husband Taylor Goldsmith, detailing what it’s been like contending with this realization.
“I’m at the OBGYN getting a check up,” Moore wrote in a Jan. 5 Instagram Story. “I am endlessly grateful for my beautiful family AND there’s a certain sadness knowing I’m done having babies and won’t be pregnant again.”
The 41-year-old also asked her followers if there were “any other moms feel this way?”
This past year Moore shared how excited she was to be celebrating her first Mother’s Day as a mom of three.
“Being a mom is the single greatest gift of my life,” she wrote in a May Instagram post, “and while you’re never off the clock worrying or stressing or planning, the quiet, unmistakable joy triumphs over everything else.”
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The “Tangled” actress also thanked the mothers in her life, writing they, “model what it takes, lend an ear, make the best suggestions, and generally make me feel less alone on the journey.”
And the journey has been an interesting one for Moore, who shared what it was like for her having daughter Louise slightly later in life.
“I feel like having my third child at 40, this term ‘geriatric pregnancy’ that’s thrown around,” she explained on Kylie Kelce’s “Not Gonna Lie” podcast in June. “I think at least in my experience, so many of my friends are having kids later in life, whether it’s by choice or it’s by circumstance or biology.”
“The thing that I had the most trouble with is just this system in general kind of treating us as this anomaly that we’re too old,” Moore continued, “and we’re too complicated or high risk, and really, it’s like, ‘Nope, we’re just human beings.'”
Mandy Moore is giving fans an update after her 2-year-old son faced a startling health scare. On Friday, the “This Is Us” actress took to Instagram to explain that little Gus woke up last weekend with an alarming skin condition.
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