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Odette Annableis opening up about a rollercoaster time in her life.
“Hollywood is a great place, but it’s also extremely toxic. And we became better when we were around other people because we would do the Odie and Dave thing, and it was happy, but then when we were on behind closed doors, we lost our communication,” Odette revealed.
“We didn’t understand how to be the best versions of ourselves. We became co-dependent. And everything just started to unravel,” she continued.
“The only way that I knew that we would get past it was if I understood how to become a whole person, and it was through a lot of meditation, a lot of sisterhood, a lot of talks about your relationships and what it takes to really become a whole person. So I took that six months, and we were separated for about six months, to dive in.”
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During that time, Odette decide to “find happiness within” and “learn how to find happiness alone with my daughter,” she noted, referring to their now 7-year-old daughterCharlie.
“And ultimately, all of these lessons led to ‘Oh s—,we can do this together, we just needed to learn how to do it alone first, and how to be happy with ourselves and not try to make anybody else happy.”
During the six months, the two not only took time for themselves but to “explore what we needed to understand, and we became better parents.”
The joy of the couple’s reunion became complicated when they decided to grow their family and found it wasn’t as easy as they’d hoped.
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Her medical team was skeptical about the efficiency of pursuing IUI, but Odette persisted.
Odette Annable and Dave Annable in May 2019.Rachel Murray/Getty Images for City Year Los Angeles
Odette and Dave welcomed daughterAndersen “Andi” Leein October.
“Throughout my whole pregnancy, I told Dave, ‘I feel like I know this one.’ And when she came Earthside, I looked at her and I and I said, ‘Oh hey, I know you, there you are,'” the mom of two shared.
“I’ve gone through this life with her. I’ve done life with her. And I think for Charlie, what a beautiful thing to have a sister that they’re going to learn so much from each other. I’m not putting any expectations on what their relationship will be, but so far, it’s just been really beautiful”.
“I had three miscarriagesand she wasn’t ready, but now, she’s so embracing this role and she’s so emotionally intelligent,” Odette said of Charlie. “She is able to articulate whenever she’s having a tough moment. I like to say she’s she had us alone for seven years.”
source: people.com
