Mothers Gone Wild!

Brianne Howey coaches Us through Kinda Pregnant, a comedy with fake baby bumps but real-life birth stories

- LEANNE ACIZ STANTON

For Brianne Howey, Kinda Pregnant arrived at the perfect time: The actress had welcomed her first child just three months before getting the script for the Netflix comedy, about a newly single teacher, Lainy (Amy Schumer), who meets her perfect guy (Will Forte) while she's pretending to be expecting. (Long backstory.) The role: Megan, a no-nonsense mama who has another kid on the way. "I had never read anything that related so closely to where I was currently at in my life," Howey says. "It was the fastest page-turner and resonated so deeply with me." Here, the Ginny & Georgia star, 35, tells Us what to, er, expect.