She used to mix organic ingredients in her kitchen, which led to C & The Moon’s signature brown sugar body scrub. Growing up, Meyer had sensitive skin and would steer clear of harmful chemicals and toxins. While the company was launched in 2018, its hero product dates back much further. And then I found birth and was like, ‘This is that too.’ I love both, but being in the birth field, I realized that there are other ways that are more in your hands to deeply connect with someone and impact somebody’s life and all the reasons I was drawn to acting.”īeyond being a doula, Meyer is also the founder of C & The Moon, a clean skincare brand whose Malibu-made brown sugar body scrub is a favorite of Kim Kardashian. “I was addicted to acting classes and being with people who wanted to fully reveal themselves. “Meeting a midwife was the first time I realized you could have a career that’s not being an OB in this field.” Meyer was so moved by their conversation that she decided to throw herself into doula training. “It was the first time that I saw images of women laboring,” she says, “that wasn’t the Hollywood depiction of like blood and masks and men standing over you.”Īfter graduating from New York University and returning to Los Angeles, Meyer met her boyfriend, singer-songwriter Johnathan Rice, who introduced her to a midwife. Meyer’s perspective evolved after watching the 2008 documentary “The Business of Being Born” for a college course. I totally respect and admire women who choose not to have children and who choose that path, but it is unfortunate we’ve taught women that unless you’re going to be the everything mom, you can’t. “I saw my mom give so much and I was like, ‘I don’t think I could ever give that, but that’s what’s required.’ I had this really skewed idea of what a mother needed to do and I didn’t think I could ever fill that.

“I remember saying, ‘I will never have kids,’” she says. As a teenager in high school and college, Meyer didn’t think she wanted kids, which she had mistakenly deemed a feminist act. Like most people, the Carson Meyer of today is a world away from who she once thought she wanted to be. “He still doesn’t fully understand what I do, but he’s like, ‘Well, she’s doing it. is so small, my dad will be somewhere and someone will come up to him and be like, ‘Your daughter was my doula,’” she says. Then when I found a doula, he was like, ‘You’re what? That was not what I was talking about.’” She laughs, sharing that he’s since come around. Not my daughter.’ He was excited for me to find something else. “Starting as an agent and being on the other end of the phone of all the terrible things you hear and the heartbreak and the endless cycle of what that means to be an actress, I think he was like, ‘Please. “When I started acting, he was terrified,” she admits. She says, however, her father was pleased when she pivoted to a different profession. It was a natural move for Meyer, who grew up observing the industry through her father Ron Meyer, the former Vice Chairman of NBCUniversal and a founding talent agent at Creative Artists Agency. Prior to discovering the birthing community, Meyer was pursuing acting, which included a role as Willadeene Parton, Dolly Parton’s sister, in a 2015 made-for-TV movie called “Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors.” She also did a few indie films including artist Alex Israel’s 2017 drama “SPF-18.” “My friends all make fun of me because I have a birth ball in my trunk and all my bags are always packed,” she says.

While burnout is a very real future possibility, for the moment, Meyer is all in. Recent pregnancies include Mandy Moore, Elsa Hosk, and Gigi Hadid, the latter of whom opened up about the experience in a Vogue cover story earlier this year. “It’s like my version of rock-and-roll,” she says, laughing.ĭue to hospital restrictions during the pandemic, Meyer got creative and began virtually coaching clients all over the country. Meyer says that she’ll often head to a client’s house at two in the morning for a forty-hour birth and then will sleep for the next twenty-four hours. It’s an understandable admission given the pace she’s been keeping of late. “I’m just going to burn out, and then have my kids, and then burn out again.” “I have them written down, but it’s over hundred,” the bubbly blonde says, seated on a couch in a Topanga Canyon rental she found on Craigslist shortly before the pandemic hit. Doula Carson Meyer has been a part of so many births, she’s lost count.

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