Amber Tamblyn Expecting A Baby Girl, Uses Announcement To Show Support For Hillary Clinton

Actress Amber Tamblyn (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) and her husband, David Cross (Arrested Development), are expecting their first child together.

AMBER TAMBLYN EXPECTING BABY GIRL

In the candid essay she wrote for Glamour, Tamblyn explains the hardship that many women face in this country and describes her hopes for raising her daughter. “I’m pregnant, with a daughter on the way. I think constantly about the world I am bringing her into,” she began. “I’ve been thinking about motherhood a lot lately. What it means to be one, what it means to have one, what it means to know one, what it means to make decisions as one and have conversations as one. I am very lucky to be surrounded by strong mothers, from my own mom to some of my best friends — those who are raising young women to accept themselves and those who are raising young men to accept women.”

She then goes on to explain her support of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, saying she is about to mail in her absentee ballot. “I’ll be voting for a future for my daughter where conversations about our bodies and our lives are broader than what value they have for men,” she wrote, taking a jab at Republican nominee Donald Trump. “A future where being a mother is less about warning our daughters about our sons and is instead lifting them up to their greatest potential. A future where my girl will someday say, ‘Donald who?’ and think nothing is revolutionary about a woman becoming President. A future where she can’t even believe that was ever even a thing.”

Tamblyn previously wrote on Facebook about her experiences with sexual assault in light of the recent Trump Tape scandal in which the presidential candidate bragged about taking advantage of women and using his fame to grope women without their permission.

Tamblyn and Cross wed in 2012 and are excited to welcome their first child in the near future.

Here is my latest piece for Glamour. It’s personal and important, like this election. “Somewhere between Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton a woman with “tremendous hate in her heart” and “a nasty woman,” I found myself making a phone call to my mother I was hoping I could avoid forever. A story I shared about an encounter with an ex-boyfriend had gone viral, and I feared she would read about it in the news. When I told her, my mother’s reaction was unshockingly unshocked. “You know,” she began, “I have a story of my own I want to share with you.” Go ahead and fill in the blank of my mother’s story. It’s easy, isn’t it? I was at a _____, and a guy ______. I was _____ years old and the father of one of my friends ______. I was at work and my boss __ ___. I was walking down the street and _ ____. I exist, therefore _______is bound to happen. On the phone, my mother ended with a second story. She told her mother what had happened to her, and I’ll bet you can fill in this blank, too. My grandmother’s response to my mother was, “Boys will be boys. You just have to be really careful around them.” This is what has passed for wisdom, what’s been handed down between women for generations. It continues today. It encourages women to take a backseat in their own lives, telling them it’s okay: men know how to drive and know what they’re doing. It tells us to shush, to not make a fuss, to accept the world as it was built for us. It tells us we shouldn’t ask for more than what we are given, from dollar bills to the Bill of Rights. Boys will be boys and girls will be, what? Quiet. Hungry. Subservient. Game. I’ve been thinking about motherhood a lot lately. What it means to be one, what it means to have one, what it means to know one, what it means to make decisions as one and have conversations as one. I am very lucky to be surrounded by strong mothers, from my own mom to some of my best friends—those who are raising young women to accept themselves and those who are raising young men to accept women.Motherhood has been heavily on my mind because I am going to be a mother soon. I’m pregnant, with a daughter on the way…” (article link in bio)

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