Daphne's Back Just In Time For The Season 2 Premiere - Jeannie Gaffigan And Her Incredible Story!!!
Mom Brain
Gallery Media Group, Hilaria Baldwin & Daphne Oz
3.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Daphne's back from maternity leave and in this very special season 2 premiere episode of Mom Brain, Jeannie Gaffigan stops by to tell us about incredible life changing story. Jeannie is a director, producer, writer, and mom of 5 children. Her husband is comedian Jim Gaffigan. In 2017 a benign tumor was found in Jeannie's brain the size and shape of a pear. For the past 2 years Jeannie has dealt with brain surgery, complications, throat surgery, and recovery. Her new book, When Life Gives You Pears: The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People, chronicles her amazing journey of family, love and what happens when a mom is faced with a life altering .
In this episode Jeannie articulates what it's like to be an incapacitated mom, while she dealt with all of the issues stemming from her brain surgery. She discusses her tumor, her kids, her husband, the benefits (and trials) of having a large family, and faith. Make sure you stick around after the episode for the bonus Mom Brain game.
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| 0:00.0 | Being a mom is the toughest job there is and it doesn't come with instructions. |
| 0:05.0 | So it's okay if you don't have all the answers. |
| 0:07.7 | We'll figure it out together. |
| 0:09.4 | This is Mombrain with Alaria Baldwin and Daphne Az. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to Mombreen. I'm Daphne. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Elaria and welcome to season two. |
| 0:22.0 | O'e! Today we have Jeannie Gaffigan, who is a friend of both Daphne and mine, and she is funny and amazing. |
| 0:31.0 | She is a mama of six six although one of her babies passed away at |
| 0:35.5 | 23 weeks she is the wife to funny man Jim Gathigan I've known them for years |
| 0:41.7 | and they're just kind of they're such a dynamic duo and |
| 0:45.2 | they're so funny because they're in Hollywood and they're funny and their crass and |
| 0:49.8 | you're always doing like this wild, wild ideas. |
| 0:53.2 | But then they're actually like, |
| 0:55.2 | and then they're also real family people. |
| 0:57.0 | And they like go to church and they have like this really like fun life |
| 1:01.8 | where they, everything is about their kids. Isn't that the beauty of |
| 1:04.8 | the family dynamic of like no one is one-dimensional no one is just just their |
| 1:09.7 | persona or just their career or just their family life and they seem to just blend it all together so beautifully. |
| 1:15.4 | So Genie, super mom, super director, writer, all of these different kinds of things and then she finds out that she has a brain |
| 1:25.0 | tumor that is both in the shape and size of a pair which is why she came out |
| 1:30.9 | with her new book when life gives you pairs. |
| 1:33.2 | Very luckily she is safely on the other side. |
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