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Ellen Pompeo is finest identified for her work on Grey’s Anatomy, and he or she’s excitingly set to reunite with a few of her costars to current an award on the 2024 Emmy Awards on Monday evening. In addition to being a gifted and beloved actress, she’s a doting mother to her three kids, Stella Luna, Sienna May, and Eli Christopher, who she shares with husband Chris Ivery, a file producer and typically author. Ellen met Chris in 2003, earlier than she rose to stardom on her standard tv collection, they usually ultimately tied the knot in 2007 earlier than welcoming their youngsters.
Ever the busy actress, Ellen famous on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2017 that she’d be “nowhere” with out the assistance of her child nurse, contemplating her “long days” on set. Although the mother-of-three stays dedicated to her craft, she’s additionally dedicated to her household, hilariously — and sweetly — describing herself because the “Professional Asst to Stella Luna, Sienna May and Eli Ivery” in her Twitter bio.
Find out extra about Ellen and Chris’ youngsters, from the oldest to youngest under.
Stella Luna Pompeo Ivery
The oldest of Ellen and Chris’ kids, Stella, was born in 2009. Ellen initially hid her being pregnant underneath her scrubs for so long as she might whereas taking part in Meredith Grey, lastly taking break day after the delivery of Stella (her character was written to be donating a kidney throughout season 6). Although Ellen went on maternity go away to be with new child Stella, the teenager ultimately started visiting the set and even developed a love for the medical career. Could she comply with in her mom’s footsteps, or Meredith Grey’s footsteps, that’s?
“Yesterday I went in to find her [and] she was with Linda with a bone drill, drilling a fake femur bone with a real bone drill. She was supervised, but they have her doing advanced procedures!” Ellen instructed Ellen DeGeneres in 2020, per People. She stays happy with her eldest daughter’s profession aspirations however joked that it was time for her to decide about her future. “She needs to decide whether she wants to be an orthopedic surgeon or an emergency room doctor,” she says. “She needs to nail it down. I mean, seriously, she’s confusing me.”
Sienna May Pompeo Ivery
Ellen and Chris’ second daughter, Sienna, was born in 2014, “via surrogate,” because the TV star famous in a previous tweet. Ellen additionally shared within the tweet that she needed to get pleasure from her first few weeks “privately” with Sienna, though the now 7-year-old loves making an look on her film star mother’s Instagram account. “Someone send help,” Ellen joked in a current photograph with Sienna, who was wearing a spunky, Hollywood-ready outfit. “I’ve created a monster….a very cute one but still.”
Although Sienna’s huge sister, Stella, welcomed her sibling at first, issues began to get a bit of heated between the 2, as mother Ellen famous on that 2020 Ellen look. “After three months, she was like, ‘Is she leaving? I was like, ‘No, no, she’s going to live here.’ And she was like, ‘Oh, okay.’”
Eli Christopher Pompeo Ivery
While Ellen and Chris beloved their darling ladies, they couldn’t assist however need to carry a 3rd baby into the combo. Welcome Eli, a child boy, who arrived in 2016. This summer time, Ellen shared an cute video of the now 4-year-old Eli singing alongside to the late Biz Markie‘s hit monitor, “Just a Friend,” commemorating the rapper, who died in July.
“I make a lot of mistakes. You just learn,” Ellen instructed InModel in 2018, reflecting on motherhood. “Kids are just so open and honest, and you could get down on yourself a lot as a parent, like ‘Oh I’m not there enough.’ It’s easier to beat yourself up and feel guilty. But you can’t adopt a sort of victim’s attitude, you have to adopt an optimistic, can do, ‘how do I fix it?’ attitude with kids.”
She went on, “You can’t sort of wallow in your own self-pity. ‘I should have done this, I should have done that,’ there’s no time to do that if someone’s life is in your hands.”