1 of Ellen Pompeo’s Kids Received a Sweet Message From Michelle Obama
Like Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo has multiple kids. The Grey’s Anatomy star is also a director and producer on top of her job as a wife and mother. With that clout comes a certain level of attention from other celebrities, like Michelle Obama. Learn what the former first lady told Pompeo’s daughter.
Michelle Obama reached out to one of Ellen Pompeo’s kids
Ellen Pompeo shared a video of one of her children ahead of the 2020 presidential election. “I want to be like Michelle Obama,” Sienna May Pompeo Ivery said. When prompted, the child explained, “She’s nice. And I want to be nice and make the world a better place.” Pompeo captioned the video, “Sienna May for the win… we all do Sienna …we all do. Thank you @michelleobama #VOTE.”
The former first lady herself chimed in on the post. “@EllenPompeo, this made my day,” wrote Obama. “Please tells Sienna May that I have no doubt she’ll be able to change the world and make it a better place.” The Instagram account Comments By Celebs captured the exchange between the Netflix producer and the actor.
Ellen Pompeo has 3 children with her husband, Chris Ivery
Ellen Pompeo met her future husband, music producer Chris Ivery, in 2003, before she became Meredith Grey. After dating for a few years, the pair married in 2007 in a private ceremony out of the public eye. Though they met in Los Angeles, both are from Massachusetts.
Together, Pompeo and Ivery have three children, two girls, and one boy. They were born in 2009, 2014, and 2016, respectively. After her third child was born, Pompeo said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she “would be nowhere” without help, specifically her baby nurse at the time. “I work long days,” she reminded the host.
Her eldest is Stella Luna Pompeo Ivery
The first of Ellen Pompeo and Chris Ivery’s kids is Stella Luna Pompeo Ivery. The Grey’s Anatomy Season 6 storyline in which Meredith donated her kidney was written to give Pompeo some time off. Before that, she hid her pregnancy under her scrubs, and some of her scenes during that season were pre-taped.
“I’m already a super emotional person, and life can be quite painful for me sometimes because I feel things so deeply, and I feel things even more deeply now that I’m a parent,” Pompeo told InStyle of how becoming a mom changed her. “You know you worry so much about them, and it’s really hard.”
Ellen Pompeo and Chris Ivery also have a son
Finally, Ellen Pompeo and Chris Ivery welcomed their son, Eli Christopher Pompeo Ivery, into their home in 2016. There aren’t as many photos of him on her Instagram account as Sienna May and Stella Luna. A few months after Eli was born, Pompeo told Ellen DeGeneres he was “the sweetest thing ever.”
“I make a lot of mistakes,” Pompeo said in the InStyle interview of being a mom. “Kids are just so open and honest, and you could get down on yourself a lot as a parent…But you can’t adopt a sort of victim’s attitude, you have to adopt an optimistic, can do, ‘how do I fix it?’ attitude with kids.”
