While most of us were busy scavenging for toilet paper and swapping sourdough starters,
Jenna Dewan was in the middle of more labor-intensive pandemic preparations. Quite literally. The actress gave birth to her second child—a son, Callum Michael Rebel Kazee, with fiancé Steve Kazee—on March 6, 2020, just days before Los Angeles’s stay-at-home order went into effect.
“I was in this postpartum-haze bubble, then a week later, everything just shut down,” Jenna says. “It was new; it was different; it was kind of scary. But we were all in it together.”
Jenna had already planned for a hunkering-down period following Callum’s birth, sticking to the same “First 40 Days” model of postpartum rest and replenishment that she had used after the birth of her daughter, Everly, with ex-husband Channing Tatum in 2013. But what she hadn’t planned for was a months-long isolation—especially considering how alone she had felt the first time around, giving birth to Everly in London, spending the first few weeks in an apartment with no Wi-Fi, then quickly transitioning to 15-hour shoot days on the set of Lifetime’s