Hilary Duffwasn’t down for sex during her pregnancy this time around, despite being all for it last time.

One contrasting point was that Duff didn’t use sex during her pregnancy like a “helpful-slash-fun tool” like she did while expecting Banks.

“Sex really was not interesting for me at all this time around,” she shares. “So toward the end, where with Banks that felt like a really helpful-slash-fun tool, this time I was like, ‘Nope, not for me.’ It annoyed me majorly when people would say, ‘You know what really gets things started?’ I’m like, ‘Nope!’ "

“Poor Matt,” jokes Duff, “but maybe not. Maybe he was like, ‘This is for the better right now.’ "

She thought her reduced sex drive signified she was having a boy, Duff explains.

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Duff recounts her birth story, sharing how her labor and delivery happened very quickly — three hours and nine minutes in total.

“I was laughing at the way it was going down, because people were having to scramble to get home. I thought that was funny and I love to play tricks on people,” she says. “There was humor in it and I felt really ready. Then it was probably about an hour and a half to two hours in, where they started to get super heavy and I was struggling to keep up. But my head was in the game and I felt a lot more confident in the way that I was birthing than I did before. So I was really trying to be present, and relaxed, and make every contraction work for me.”

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Duff and Koma, a singer/songwriter,announced their engagement in May 2019, and theytied the knotlater that year in December. For their one-year wedding anniversary this past winter, Duff shared athrowback photo on Instagramfrom their nuptials and reflected on their marriage.

“Matt and I were both too nervous to eat the day of our wedding .. this is directly after ….we slammed a plate of apps someone brought us before taking pictures and this pretty much sums us up,” she wrote. “Snacking through life, dreaming about dinner at 7 am and wrangling kids. Oh, and dodging covid the first year of marriage 😕. Always with you babe. For you. Over and over I choose you and this ♥️ thank you for being a damn good man.”

source: people.com