Hollywood Labor Dispute

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Gisele Bundchen

"It didn't hurt in the slightest!" the model boasted of son Benjamin's drug-free water birth in 2009. "My mind was focused in each contraction on the thought, 'My baby is coming out.'" The next day, she whipped up pancakes for her family. 

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Nicole Richie

Superstar... or superhuman? After calling the birth of daughter Harlow "mellow," Richie raved, "I pushed for 10 minutes. Three pushes and [she] was out!"

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Maria Bello

"It was 22 hours of labor... with nothing more than an aspirin," the actress said about the birth of her son Jackson. But, "I thought, I can do anything for 24 hours!"

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Busy Philipps

"It was an incredible experience," the Cougar Town actress gushed of delivering her daughter, Birdie, naturally. Not so much for her hubby, Marc Silverstein. "He was traumatized. For him, seeing me in that much pain... was difficult."

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Melissa Joan Hart

While delivering Braydon in 2008, "I told... my husband, 'Don't let me have [the drugs],'" Hart told Us. "I kind of regret that one!" The upside? "Two pushes. When you're feeling all that, you want to get that out as soon as possible."

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Ricki Lake

The Business of Being Born producer opted for a home birth of Owen in 2001, but nearly gave up: "I remember... thinking, I cannot do this anymore. I heard an ambulance go by, and I said, 'There's my ride. Get me out of here!'"

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Miranda Kerr

"I actually thought I was going to die and one point, and left my body," the Victoria's Secret model confessed of pushing out her nearly 10-pound son, Flynn -- without any painkillers -- in Jan.2011. "I was looking down on myself, the pain was so intense."