Even though we took the knobs off of the stove, you’re constantly just playing goalie. He was born in February right before the pandemic started. I have a three and a half year old and I have basically a one-year-old. Right, you have two under four, during a pandemic. If my line can help provide more of that for us, I’m all about it.” You see it in your children growing, right? You literally see time in front of you because you see your kids grow - time has never been so precious to me and having time with my kids. I’m always in the kitchen and they love being in there,” she says. My kids love being in the kitchen with me. “I’ve been dreaming of this line since I was a kid, really. The whole point of the collection, says Prepon, is to help parents simplify the nightmarish process that all too often is putting dinner on the table and cajoling children to eat said dinner. Now, the mom of two (Prepon has not released the names of her son and daughter, with husband Ben Foster), has taken her cooking infatuation and turned it into a product line, PrepOn Kitchen, sold on HSN. He would come home, but he wouldn’t eat with the kids.” My father was a surgeon with the most amount of cases in two hospitals. She would cook for us and she’d be back at the stove.
“But I don’t have a single memory of sitting down at a table with her eating this food. And I learned so much from her and so much of my heart in the kitchen came from what she shared with me,” she says. “I grew up in the kitchen, but I always wanted a way to just make what we do in the kitchen easier.
So here’s a real-life puzzle that Prepon set out to solve: She loves cooking, her kids love watching her cook, so how to do that without becoming so mired in the prep and cleanup that there’s no time left to actually bond over the meal with the humans who matter most to her? You know her as self-assured, no-bullshit Donna Pinciotti on the Fox sitcom That ’70s Show, and equally forthright and logical convict Alex Vause in the Netflix dramedy Orange Is the New Black. "I am praying for all of us, that we can get through this challenging time and regain agency over our own bodies," she concludes.Laura Prepon is the epitome of pragmatic. "Everyone has their own story for seeking out this medical procedure and I empathize with anyone who’s been faced with this impossible decision."
Prepon continues her Instagram post with a heartfelt message. The "Orange Is the New Black" actress had a third, healthier pregnancy which resulted in the birth of her second child in February 2020. "At the time - I had the choice," she shares. It was in 2018, during a routine trip to the doctor's for a sonogram appointment, that they found out their second pregnancy had complications-for both mother and baby. She and her husband, Ben Foster, had their daughter Ella in 2017. Prepon was already a mother of one at the time. Related: The majority of women who seek abortions are already mothers
The devastating truth is that we found out the fetus would not survive to full term, and that my life was at risk as well." A post shared by Laura Prepon writes, "One of the worst days of my life was when I made the choice to terminate a pregnancy in second trimester.