Mae Whitman, known for her roles in “Parenthood” and “Good Girls,” is pregnant with her first child and she announced it in a picture with her former costars Lauren Graham and Miles Heizer. Instagram In the photo with Lauren Graham and Miles Heizer, Whitman wrote, “Not to make a parenthood episode out of it or anything but!!! Mother’s Day looking a little different this year! 🤰🏼”
“Looking forward to meeting you, big baby kicking my insides to filth!, #ruveal” she added.
The trio acted together on the NBC sitcom from 2010 to 2015 and have remained close since the show ended. Whitman and Heizer often share photos of each other and their time together on social media.
Whitman expressed great admiration for Graham, who played her mom on the successful series, in a 2014 interview with Glamour. “The first word that comes to mind is life. I don’t remember what my life was like before her,” she said. “She has shaped my existence so much. She’s more than a best friend: she’s my role model, she’s a mother, she’s a sister. I mist up even talking about her.”
After the show ended, Whitman shared in a HuffPost interview that she and Heizer truly had a sibling-like bond. About her castmates, she said, “Lauren Graham is my best friend, and Dax [Shepard] is my family, and Miles [Heizer], who plays my brother, he’s my roommate, he lives with me in real life. We bonded in this way that is so unlike anything I’ve ever experienced.”
The ending of the show after six seasons was disappointing for fans who had grown to love the Braverman family. Jason Katims, the showrunner, told TheWrap about the series finale, “It’s surreal. Any time you end a show it’s tense. We’re not only telling the story about a family. We’ve become our own little weird quirky family ourselves.”
Katims also revealed that he had a wish for a “Parenthood” reunion at some point. “I hold out some kind of crazy hope that one day we’ll be able to get everybody back together and revisit the show at some point down the road,” he added. “Whether that happens or not, I think most of us would want it to happen. I think that speaks to how much the show has meant to us all.”
