Source: Medios y Media/Getty Images / Getty Oscar-nominated actress Danielle Brooks is candidly confessing that she wasn't sure about becoming a mother before she gave birth to her beautiful daughter, Freeya, in 2019. The Color Purple and Orange is the New Black star spoke about the twists and turns of her journey to motherhood on the latest episode of the Pregnant Pause podcast. Before meeting her husband, Dennis Gelin, in New York, Brooks told Pregnant Pause host Danielle Cadet that she had no desire to become a mother. "I did not want children.