Here’s How Jennifer Lopez Inspired Vanessa Lachey to Give Her Daughter ‘The Birds & The Bees’ Talk

For Vanessa Lachey, a bad cold, romantic comedies and Jennifer Lopez all led to giving her 10-year-old daughter “the birds and the bees” talk.

Vanessa and her husband Nick Lachey joined The Kelly Clarkson Show this week, where the Love Is Blind host recalled the moment. “This has been the craziest cold and flu season,” she explained. “It went through our entire house, and at the same time, my daughter Brooklyn and I were both sick in bed. We watch every romcom that a 10-year-old can watch, which is a little limiting because some get R-rated.”

At one point, they settled on watching 2010’s The Back-Up Plan, which follows Zoe (Jennifer Lopez), who conceives twins via artificial insemination. On the same day as her procedure, she meets Stan (Alex O’Loughlin), whom she believes to be her dream man. “I was like, ‘Oh crap.’ I press play and I’m thinking I’m going to ease into it,” Vanessa recalled. “First scene, she’s in the chair legs up in stirrups, he comes in with the Q-tip. He’s about to artificially inseminate her.”

She continued, “So, I pause it and I go ‘OK, so there’s a couple ways you can get pregnant. This is one.’ [Brooklyn] goes, ‘I’m going to look in the pillow when you tell me the other one.’ I go, ‘No, look at me. I’ll look at the TV.’ We had a whole talk, explaining the science of it.”

Ultimately, Brooklyn deduced that to get pregnant, “you can opt for the Q-tip and not the guy,” to which Vanessa responded, “Absolutely.”

Watch the full interview — with Nick’s face in his hands throughout the hilarious story — below.

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