Brook Shields has 2nd girl

[Raph's Girl]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060419/...m/shields_dc_1

Actress Brooke Shields, whose first experience as a mother led to write a book about postpartum depression, gave birth on Tuesday to her second child with TV writer Chris Henchy, her publicist said.

The 40-year-old actress and her husband named their new daughter Grier Hammond Henchy, the couple said in a statement issued through People magazine.

Shields, who burst onto the Hollywood scene playing a child prostitute in the 1978 film "Pretty Baby" and went to star in her own television sitcom, "Suddenly Susan," gave birth to her first daughter, Rowan, in May 2003.

She chronicled her post-natal emotional difficulties in the book "Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression."

In it, Shields revealed taking anti-depressants for treatment of extreme despair and suicidal thoughts, an admission that actor
Tom Cruise later criticized publicly in explaining his own skepticism about psychiatry as part of his belief in the Church of Scientology.

Shields fired back in a New York Times opinion column published in July 2005, rebuking Cruise's comments as a "ridiculous rant" and a "disservice to mothers everywhere."

"I wasn't thrilled to be taking drugs. In fact, I prematurely stopped taking them and had a relapse that almost led me to drive my car into a wall with Rowan in the backseat. But the drugs, along with weekly therapy sessions, are what saved me -- and my family," she wrote.

Ironically, the arrival of Shields' second daughter came on the same day as the delivery of Cruise's first biological child, a daughter born to his finacee, actress Katie Holmes.

Shields, who previously wed tennis star Andre Agassi, married Henchy in 2001. Last year, she starred in a Broadway production of the hit musical "Chicago."

Raph's Girl note: Did some research on the name Grier....I wonder if Brook Shields is aware that her daughter's name is derived from Gregory? I also wonder if Grier and Suri will be friends when they're older? They're soul twins since they were born on the same day.

[The Stryker]

oough...kinda weird.

Remember when Tom Cruise had his period and got all mad at Brooke Shields? now their kids share a birthday.

Solve THAT mission! Asswipe!

[Katie]

gee...I hope Katie Holmes doesn't have post partum......

I like the name Grier...it's kinda pretty and not common...yet not nutso like some celebrity baby names

[Dr. Doom]

I could see "Grier" for a boy's name....not so much a girl's.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by Dr. Doom

I could see "Grier" for a boy's name....not so much a girl's.

The Baby name sites say Grier is a boy's name...guess they have to change it to unisex now thanks to Brooke.

[Jo Dawn]

Originally Posted by Katie

gee...I hope Katie Holmes doesn't have post partum......

And actually...

I kinda hope she does have postpartum. Maybe ol' Tommie needs to actually see what it does to people.


And many congrats to Brooke. I kinda like the name Grier, myself... For a girl, too, though I've always liked the 'boys names for girls' thingie. Heh.