Scared of needles? Too bad.
Kristen Bell has forbidden people who aren't vaccinated from meeting her mini-mes.
"When Lincoln was born [in March 2013], the whooping cough epidemic was growing, and before she was 2 months old, we simply said [to friends], 'You have to get a whooping cough vaccination if you are going to hold our baby,'" Bell, 34, recently told The Hollywood Reporter. Bell is doing the same thing for her daughter Delta, born Dec. 19. "It's a very simple logic: I believe in trusting doctors, not know-it-alls."
On a lighter note, House of Lies actress appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday and opened up about raising 22-month-old Lincoln and her 8-week-old Delta with her husband, Parenthood star Dax Shepard.
Bell explained that Shepard had come up with the name Delta after receiving a "jokey text" from a friend. "He was really shocked to hear that there was a woman named Delta Burke," the Veronica Mars star recalled. "I guess he didn't TiVo Designing Women like the rest of us! He had no idea who she was."
"He thought he made it up," Bell added.
A few weeks ago, the Hit and Run co-stars received "about or nine texts" wishing their elder daughter a happy birthday. It was actually Abraham Lincoln's birthday…had he lived until 206. "That is now how we distinguish between friends who are phoning it in or friends who really know her birthday," Bell joked.
Shepard, meanwhile, turned the big 4-0 on Jan. 2.
"He can almost take care of himself now," Bell joked. "We almost forgot. We have an 8-week-old and we're in that, 'Hey, is it nighttime or daytime? Where's the food?' and all the things that you question when you're in a dreamy haze. We remembered...on Dec. 31. We were like, 'Oh, my God! You turn 40 in three days. What should we do?'" Bell agreed to go to a restaurant of Shepard's choice: Bob's Big Boy.
"Thank God he wasn't like, 'I wish we had a reservation to some place in advance!' He just wanted to go to Big Boy. First of all, the food is delicious. Second of all, he worked there in middle school...it's a lot of nostalgia for him...I remember him telling me that when he worked there, he only got paid like $2.35 an hour. He would eat there every day and they deduct it from your paycheck. So at the end of his first two weeks he cleared like $8 because he had used it all in food and he thought, 'I can't continue this,' so he just started eating food off people's plates when he cleared them," Bell said. "The food is really good!"
Bell also said the chain has "really good desserts."
"The kicker was he had given up sugar for a year—we both did—and I had cheated over the course of my pregnancy, but he had gone cold turkey, no sugar," the When in Rome actress told Jimmy Kimmel. "He said, 'My fortieth, I'm going to go hard.' We went to Big Boy. We ate our faces off. He ordered three desserts from the menu, came home and threw up. So, his fortieth was not unlike his fifth birthday!"
During her interview, Bell also opened up about life with little Lincoln.
"We're both very bullheaded yet rule followers, and that's how I was as a kid. I was a good girl and a goodie-goodie, but I was also entirely awkward. Like, I used to want to eat my food next do the dog, but with my face," Bell said. "That was the only way I was going to eat dinner, and my parents just kind of put up with it. When you have a stubborn child...I know I'm going to receive some of this from my kid."
As an example of her stubbornness, she recalled, "I hated the name Kristen when I was little. When I was about 3-and-a-half, I said, 'No more! You will call me Smurfette or nothing at all.' My parents were like, 'Well, we'll see.' There was a couple of weeks where I didn't answer to anything else, which is dangerous when you have a child on the playground and you say, 'Kristen, come here!' and nobody runs to you. So they sat me down and said, 'This isn't going to fly.' And I said, 'Fair enough. My name is now Matthew.' And they said, 'That's not going to work.' So it was a negotiation. Annie had come out—the movie from the early '80s. We settled on Annie, and I was called Annie by my whole family until I was 16. My grandparents still call me Annie, my sister. I still get phone calls to the house...Weird, I know."
In high school, Bell tried to be "tougher" than she was.
To prove she still had street cred, the actress rapped Too $hort's "Blowjob Betty" on the spot.