Focused on her career: Actor Melanie Vallejo from TV show 'Winners and Losers'. Source: The Daily Telegraph
Zoe Nauman, The Sunday Telegraph, reports
Winners & Losers star Melanie Vallejo says preparing for her role as a dutiful step-mum on the show has put her off having children of her own.
As Sophie Wong on the Seven hit, the actor has been getting to grips with her best friend Bec O'Connor (Zoe Tuckwell-Smith) giving birth. And it was this that made Vallejo go from clucky to disinterested. "We thought it would be good to do some research before the labour scene, so we got out a home birthing video," she says.
"After watching that home birth, I wasn't so clucky.
"This woman gave birth in a paddling pool to twins, and it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. But I thought I don't want babies. There has to be a better way. Who wants to go through that."
The actor says she was initially concerned about the triangle of Sophie's boyfriend Doug (Tom Wren) having a child with her best friend Bec.
"After watching that home birth, I wasn't so clucky.
"This woman gave birth in a paddling pool to twins, and it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. But I thought I don't want babies. There has to be a better way. Who wants to go through that."
The actor says she was initially concerned about the triangle of Sophie's boyfriend Doug (Tom Wren) having a child with her best friend Bec.
"It's a difficult situation in the beginning - I was struggling with it and I was thinking: 'Is it too crazy or too Jerry Springer?' I think as the season went on, it's not that crazy. I actually think it has been a good spanner in the works for the dynamic of the four girls," she says.
Vallejo, who married Matt Kingston last year, says they watched the birth episode and it did prompt a discussion.
"The plotlines always start a discussion and we talk about them. The pregnancy thing did get thrown up, but after that, definitely not for while, I can tell you."
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