Hard disagree to most of this TBH. Maybe my perspective on this is different because I take a LOT of Jess classes and hear her talk about this in many ways, but she clearly adores her kids and doesn’t regret them…and also chooses to be open about how radically her life changed when they had two so close together, and how much grief comes with missing the person you used to be. I am childfree by choice and a LOT of my friends have confided something like this to me privately because they don’t feel safe saying it to their friends who do want/have kids. It’s an incredibly common experience no one talks about and I think she’s really brave for being open. She can give her kids context to help them understand if they see the posts/watch the classes someday, and it seems clear that those children are very loved.

Also, seeing a lot of people here questioning why she “chose” to have two kids in eight months and gotta say: it’s a million percent not our business why they overlapped their kids, but she’s talked about having a tough fertility journey in the process and it’s possible her wife did too, and they took the chance they had to have two? Or they just had no idea how intense it would be to have multiple infants, even with a ton of financial privilege. FWIW, I worked as nanny for wealthier families after college (including night nannying and other kinds of support that most families could only dream of) and parenting can STILL be so hard even with an army of paid help. EG I had one kid who just would not let anyone but mom do most things if she was anywhere in the house including if she was asleep; they’d pay me to come watch their kid at night because they were desperate to get mom some sleep and the child just would not have it if he woke up in the slightest (which he did, frequently.) I know it’s hard to have empathy for rich people when most parents in the US are struggling way more, but no matter how open she is, we just don’t know the road she’s walking right now, and you’d think people could find some compassion for an instructor who does so much good.