Amanda tries to make her daughter smile - Jul 19, 2007
Amanda Peet and her husband David Benioff anxiously waited for her baby Frances Pen to show her first smile, she said in The Late Show. Amanda, who read that babies flash their first grin at six weeks old, tried to encourage her daughter to smile when the 6 week arrived an there were any news of smiling. She said in the show, “I remember at six weeks they're supposed to start smiling and I was waiting and waiting for her to smile because I was so excited for this and she didn't smile and she wasn't smiling at all so I started to become a little bit like a crazy person, a little bit like a stage mom. Every morning I'd go, 'Hi! Hi! Hi, goose!' And then I was talking to this friend of mine who's a child development specialist and she said, 'Oh, no, no. Don't smile like that. Never show your teeth. It scares the baby. It's too much.' Especially my teeth. I've been told I have rather large teeth. So the next afternoon I come home and I proceed to start communicating with her [like this] (nods with a close-lipped smile). But she did start smiling".
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