Of course, Michelle and Thomas’ happy news arrives amid a busy time for the 44-year-old, as it comes after the Dying for Sex premiere—Michelle’s first project since The Fabelmans in 2022. The series, which hit Hulu in April, follows a woman who leaves her husband of 15-years to pursue hot sex after a terminal cancer diagnosis.
Naturally, the plot gave Michelle a bit of a pause, especially as a mom of now-four.
“I’m going to go do a show about what?” she recalled thinking to New York magazine in an article published March 24. “It wasn’t necessarily the thing that I saw myself doing. I’m a mom. I got all these kids.”
Still, Michelle noted that it was precisely the subject matter that made the role—which took her from New York to Los Angeles to shoot—worth temporarily leaving her kids.
“When you have small children, you become thoughtful about the time you spend away from them,” she added. “And so I don’t work a ton, but I still want to work.”
It helped, too, that Michelle’s teenager was keen on her mother doing the role. As she put it, “To go make a show about sex and death with so many unknown elements, you really do need the support of your home team to say, ‘Go, Mom, go.’”
