Sophie Turner Wasn't Sure If She 'Wanted To Be A Mother' When She Got Pregnant

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• Sophie Turner shared her journey to motherhood in a new interview.

• The Game of Thrones star asked ex Joe Jonas, "What do you think we should do?" when she told him she was pregnant.

• She calls her daughters, Willa, 3, and Delphine, 1, "absolute rays of sunshine."

Upon finding out she was pregnant with her first daughter at 24 years old, Sophie Turner wasn't quite ready for parethood, the Game of Thrones star revealed in a new interview.

On Wednesday, British Vogue published an interview with Sophie, 28, who opened up about her journey with motherhood—including how she felt when she found out she was pregnant with her now three-year-old daughter, Willa, while on a retreat in Bali.

"It was my first day there, and I was meeting my roommate for the first time. Before we settled down to chat, I told her that I just needed to go and take a pregnancy test," she said. "I took the test and was like, ‘I’m pregnant, so nice to meet you!’”

When she returned home from her trip, she explained how she felt about being pregnant to her now-estranged husband, Joe Jonas. "I remember throwing the pregnancy test at him, saying, ‘What do you think we should do? Do you think we should have it?’" she said. "At that point, I really didn’t know if I wanted to be a mother."

Discussing the pregnancy with Joe led to a change of heart. "I just knew I had to have her," she shared, adding that becoming a mom was "the best thing for my relationship to my body" after struggling with an eating disorder.

"Being a young girl, especially one growing up in the spotlight, you really judge yourself," she explained.

Due to her bulimia, her face would often bloat. (The eating disorder can cause swollen salivary glands, per Medical News Today.) "So when I finally did get better in my early 20s, my face went back to normal," she said. "Then, suddenly, all the comments were about whether I'd had buccal fat removal or not."

Sophie credits "exposure therapy" with helping her heal from her eating disorder. "I know when I’m in a bad headspace that the eating thing will always flare up,” she said. "But now I regulate it by sitting in the discomfort and just getting used to that feeling of being full. It’s all exposure therapy."

The X-Men star is also a huge advocate of therapy, and has taken medication to help manage her anxiety and depression in the past. She's even brought in a live-in therapist for full-time help, who "would ensure I wasn’t doing anything unhealthy with my eating habits," she told Elle UK. This helped her learn healthy coping mechanisms. "I know what I have to do to get myself in a good headspace. It's not debilitating—I know how to get myself out of it."

After giving birth, Sophie's therapist asked her how she felt in her body, to which she replied, "There’s milk leaking from my breasts and I’ve been bleeding for a month."

The therapist's response helped reframe her thinking. "She reminded me how amazing it is that our bodies can do this," Sophie recalled. "It sounds so simple, but I never thought of my body in that way before."

Sophie and Joe welcomed Willa in July 2020, and their second daughter, Delphine, in July 2022. She said raising her daughters together has been "a real miracle to just watch them grow up in front of your eyes."

"Everything changes so quickly," she adds. "They're so much fun, total girlie girls and absolute rays of sunshine in my life."

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