Ana Ortiz Ready For Second Baby

The baby pipeline that seems to run through the dressing rooms at Ugly Betty won’t be slowing down very soon, that is if Ana Ortiz has her way.  She tells OK magazine that she’s ready to have baby number two, just two months after having baby Paloma.

“The sooner the better,” she says.  “We’re definitely looking forward to having a playmate for her.”

She was recently at an event at NYC’s Double Tree Metropolitan Hotel, wheeling little Paloma around.  “I brought her out because I couldn’t get a babysitter,” she says.

Welcome to parenthood, Ana.    I can really relate to how she describes the baby’s effect on her:

“She just started smiling,” Ana says. “She’s like [smiles] ‘a-ha.’ And it’s like [theatrics] melt, melt, melt, melt. That’s her latest thing – smiling. It’s always in the morning, and it’s like she’s trying to laugh. It’s almost like she’s coughing – like a cat coughing up a hairball. It’s so cute.”

As I recall, the funniest baby faces usually meant it was about time for a diaper change.

Having Paloma has also enhanced her relationship with husband Noah Lebenzon.

“It’s incredible,” she says. “It’s so much deeper. Before, you’re together, but there’s never that sense of ‘til death do you part, right? When she came along, I was like ‘oh yeah, now I get ‘til death do you part.’ We are together forever. There’s no one I respect more as a man and as a dad. He’s surpassing my dreams. I’m really lucky. Today is the one day he couldn’t babysit. He’s been changing diapers, he’s been getting up in the middle of the night walking her around, he’s been so hands-on and he still manages to be like ‘baby, you look beautiful. My God, you’re so sexy, you’re so beautiful.’ I’m like ‘are you for real?’”

The baby has also kept Ana close to her on-screen son, Mark Indelicato.  “Mark and I are inseparable,” she says. “His mom has become my fairy godmother because she’s been helping me so much with the baby, too.”

Get to work, Noah!  We expect an announcement soon. 

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