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Kristen Bell Demands Friends Get Vaccinated Before Holding Her Baby

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Kristen Bell Demands Friends Get Vaccinated Before Holding Baby
ByABC NEWS
February 19, 2015, 3:01 PM

— -- Kristen Bell, an actress and mother of two under the age of 2, is not holding back about her pro-vaccine beliefs.

The “House of Lies” star told “The Hollywood Reporter” she won’t allow her unvaccinated friends near her babies.

“The whooping cough epidemic was on the rise and she wasn’t interested in taking any chances,” Chris Gardner, the reporter of “The Hollywood Reporter” story, told ABC News.

Bell, 34, who gave birth to daughter Delta on December 19, told the magazine that after the birth of their first daughter, Lincoln, in March 2013, “we simply said [to friends], 'You have to get a whooping cough vaccination if you are going to hold our baby.’”

The actress added that she and her husband, actor and comedian Dax Shephard, plan to do the same thing with their newborn baby.

“It's a very simple logic: I believe in trusting doctors, not know-it-alls,” she explained.

The straight-talker took her frustration to Twitter, recently retweeting this pro-vaccine comment which says, “something 4 anti-vac parents 2 think about: if there were a peanut allergy vaccine created, would u give it 2 your kids?"

The outspoken funny parents clearly see this topic as no laughing matter.

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