She has a great job and an even greater sense of humor. And off she goes, into the strange and awesome territory of motherhood.
Single girls wanting babies is all the rage in American pop culture now.
Thanks to unwed mothers like Madonna, adoptive moms like Rosie O'Donnell, or wannabe moms like everybody I seem to know, maternity doesn't have to go hand in hand with marriage. Ellen is clearly ready to be a mom in some respects, sharing quiet moments with her niece, showing a willingness to understand every feeling the little girl could have that the child can barely articulate herself. However, when it comes to the part about the man, Ellen is in love with a troubled Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose life unraveled when his young son died of leukemia at the age of seven. His marriage crumbled soon after, then his career, and he has declared that he will never have children again. The complications of loving someone who doesn't see in his life something that you see so clearly in yours leads Ellen to make some tough decisions.