Kristen Bell And Dax Shepard Revealed That Their Whole Family Sleeps In The Same Bedroom, But They're So Gassy That They Didn't Realize There Was A Rotting Smell Coming From Their Mattress Pad
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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard have always been an open book when it comes to their marriage and family.
And that includes their two kids, Delta and Lincoln.
While they're notoriously private about their children's identities (they keep their faces covered in pictures), they're not quite as shy when it comes to sharing details about what it's like to parent them.
For example, during a joint appearance on The View last year, they revealed that they wait "for the stink" until bathing their kids.
Kristen said, "Once you catch a whiff, that's biology's way of letting you know you need to clean it up. There's a red flag."
On a recent episode of Dax's podcast, Armchair Expert, Kristen revealed that their entire family sleeps in the same room.
She said that "the girls sleep on the floor of our bedroom" while she and Dax sleep on an Ooler mattress pad, which uses a water-based system for heating and cooling.
She also revealed that the family watches How It's Made together before they go to bed.
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While young kids sleeping in their parents' room isn't unheard of, it recently led to a pretty ~stinky~ situation for the entire Bell-Shepard family.
"My whole family has gas, big [deal]," Kristen said. "I wake up in the morning and I go, 'Wow, nobody's gas has dissipated, but it also smells like it's burning.'"
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Dax initially took the blame for the smell. He said, "I felt guilty because, minimally, I knew I contributed to it and perhaps was the leader of it."
Kristen opened their French doors, but still, the smell returned the next morning. She tried washing their sheets, opening the doors, and lighting some candles.
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She said, "That night, I go to bed, I'm like, 'Does anybody else smell this, like, rotten garbage?'"
The only other family member who smelled it was Delta, the youngest, who is "smell sensitive."
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"Lincoln and Dax can't be bothered, so Delta and I are, well, being gaslit," Kristen said.
They had the girls help them search the room for dog poop or rotting food, but they came up empty. The next day, Kristen enlisted Lincoln to help her find the source of the stench.
Finally, when Kristen smelled Dax's "feet corner" of the mattress, she "almost hit the deck" and nearly passed out because of the horrible smell — it was the Ooler.
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When they went downstairs to tell him, Dax realized that, when he thought he was grabbing a cup of water from his messy nightstand to refill the Ooler, he must've accidentally grabbed an old protein shake instead.
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The stressful situation gave him a nightmare about cleaning the mattress pad out, only to find it filled with maggots.
The next morning, they tried to clean it out, but they eventually decided there was no saving it.
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