“She is the most accessible media celebrity to women of the childbearing age,” said Tanya Wills, who says she was so influenced by Ms. Lake’s film that she had two home births, became a doula and is finishing the midwifery program at Yale’s School of Nursing. “Ricki Lake is sort of the older sister to all of us saying, ‘I’ve been through this and this is what I learned and this is what it can be for you.’”
-Christine Haughney for The New York Times