Pinto, who has a boy with her husband Cory, emphasises the significance of preparing for the postpartum period and creating a “postpartum sanctuary.”

“In my culture, it is customary for a mother to be taken care of for the first 30 or 40 days, and the mother and baby never left alone to just figure it out,” she explains.

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“But all my American friends told me that they felt isolated. It is so important that every woman be able to prepare and plan for a postpartum sanctuary.”

The actress says she felt “inspired” to become the chief impact officer of Anya, a postpartum support platform founded in 2021, as her postpartum experience was “vastly different” from what she was told by other mothers.