Dascha Polanco.Photo:Jason Mendez/Getty
Jason Mendez/Getty
Dascha Polancoannounced that she is going to be a grandma at 40!
Last week, theOrange Is the New Blackalum revealed that her daughter Dasany Kristal Gonzalez is expecting.
In the first slide, Gonzalez stood alone as she held her growing stomach. In other photos, her partner joined her as they posed together, sharing a sweet smooch in one of the pictures.
Dascha Polanco.Cindy Ord/Getty
Cindy Ord/Getty
In 2020, Polanco opened up toParents Latinafor their June/July cover story about beinga young, single mom. TheIn the Heightsactress had Gonzalez when she was just 17.
Polanco detailed not being financially stable when she was pregnant, and feeling judgment from those around her.
During the interview, Polanco confessed that while she spent the next four years in college, she “wouldn’t tell people” she was a mom. “I’d let them find out, and when they were like, ‘You’re a mom?!’ I pretended I didn’t care,” she said at the time. “But it made me feel self-conscious and affected my confidence.”
Dascha Polanco.Roy Rochlin/Getty
Roy Rochlin/Getty
TheiGilbertstar added that her own mother “cried so hard” when she discovered thatPolanco was pregnant. Her mom later died while Polanco was still enrolled in college.
Polanco said as a young child, Gonzalez would “actually call my mom Mami and me Dascha-Mom."
“One day I finally opened up to one of my psychology professors,” the actress toldParents Latina. “I told her I hated being a mother, and ever since my mom passed, I didn’t celebrate anything. She told me the reason I got angry was that I had a subconscious jealousy of my daughter,because she had her mother andI didn’t have mine.”
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Polanco welcomed her second child, a son named Aryam, when she was 25.
In a 2018 interview with PEOPLE’sCeleb Parents Get Real, Polanco discussed her parenting style and said she didn’t consider herself to be a “strict” parent.
“I may not say strict, but I am going to say thatI am a free-range parent,” she confessed at the time.
Dascha Polanco.Slaven Vlasic/FilmMagic
Slaven Vlasic/FilmMagic
“Not that my kids are going to run around like chickens and hens, but that they will be independent and successful, yet [have] rules because I am the parent and always embracing their individuality and creating gender-neutral homes,” she explained.
Polanco then quipped, “Wow, isn’t that trendy?” before talking about why passing downtraditions are important to her.
“Coming from the Dominican Republic, I do instill in them our culture, language, music, and confidence,” she added.
source: people.com
