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Mom star Anna Faris covers the April issue of Health and opens up about giving birth to son Jack nine weeks premature. The actress, 38, goes on to talk about her hopes to have more children with husband, Guardians of the Galaxy actor Chris Pratt.

On how her son Jack, 2, is doing now: “Jack’s doing so well—I think that’s why we can talk about it now a little bit. He’s just so happy, bright and funny. For a while I thought maybe I’d be a stay-at-home mom for a couple of years. But in Hollywood, it’s not as though it’s always a choice, you know? You feel very little control over the trajectory of your own career. That said, one of the great things about Mom is that when we did the pilot, I was a little heavier than maybe I would’ve liked, but I never felt any pressure from [creator] Chuck Lorre or CBS to be fit. Sometimes, studios are kind of delicate the way they approach that. They’ll say, ‘We got you a gym membership’ or ‘We’re gonna pay for your trainer.’ And you’re like, ‘OK…I guess that means they want me to lose weight [laughs].’ “

On having more children: “We want to, very much so, but it will definitely be a whole new complication because now I’m, like, a high-risk pregnancy, so it requires some different monitoring. My doctor’s like, ‘I don’t think you’ll have to be on bed rest the whole time.”‘ And I’m like, ‘I’m on a show.’ ”

On if the paparazzi bother them: “We’re pretty low-key. We stay at home a lot. I don’t know if my husband would necessarily agree, but most of them are pretty nice guys, just trying to make a living, and a lot of them are apologetic… I think some celebrities are so mean to them and resent them so much. I mostly feel scared just going out without makeup on. But at the same time, I don’t want it to force a lifestyle change. Some people I work with wish that I would start dressing nicer [laughs]. They’re like, ‘Can you please not wear sweatpants everywhere you go?’ So this is very dressed up for me today. But yeah, the scary part is that vulnerability of like, ‘Oh man, I’m gonna be in ‘Stars Without Makeup’ again!”

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