“It wasn’t like I called my agent and said, ‘I’m having a baby and I’m not coming back for two years.’ It was more like, ‘I’m having a baby,’ and they stopped calling me for awhile … Once the baby was born, and I was ready, the conversations gradually started to happen and eventually you get a job … I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work. As a nursing mother, I couldn’t sit there and just pump all day. I needed to be close to my baby.”
– Nia Long talks to Mom.me about Hollywood’s “built-in” maternity leave and how leaving her son Kez Sunday to go back to work wouldn’t have been doable for her.