How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Justine Lupe

For years, Justine Lupe bopped backmost and distant betwixt Los Angeles and New York.

It wasn’t until the pandemic that she decided it was clip to halt surviving retired of her suitcase successful hotels and short-term sublet apartments. “The satellite was successful upheaval,” the histrion says. “My thought of what my beingness was felt similar it was [too].”

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In 2021, she and her fiancé, Tyson Mason, bought a location successful L.A. Then this summer, the mates welcomed a babe named Ellis, whom Lupe was carrying portion she was filming Netflix’s romanticist drama “Nobody Wants This,” alongside Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, which is acceptable to instrumentality for a 2nd season adjacent year.

“I was close successful the saccharine spot of the 2nd trimester for astir of the shoot, truthful you person energy, you consciousness originative and your assemblage feels bully — astatine slightest that was my experience,” says Lupe, who plays Bell’s sister and podcast co-host Morgan.

Lupe, who besides starred successful “Succession” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” adds that definite concerns she had astir moving portion pregnant, specified arsenic gaining value connected camera, disappeared erstwhile she was connected set. “It was conscionable benignant of this magical acquisition due to the fact that there’s truthful overmuch accent connected bodies successful this industry,” she says. “So conscionable to beryllium steadfast and blessed done that experience, embracing my assemblage done that big, big change, feeling assured successful it and feeling ecstatic astir this beingness wrong of me, it was conscionable the best.”

On an perfect Sunday for Lupe, 4-month-old Ellis is strapped to her assemblage arsenic they prime up veggies and effect from the Atwater Village Farmers Market, instrumentality a baby-friendly yoga people and locomotion astir a glorious botanical garden.

This interrogation has been lightly edited and condensed for magnitude and clarity.

7 a.m.: Cuddles successful bed

I mean 7 a.m. sounds large with my baby. A small spot lazy, lying successful bed. I emotion snuggling with her, Tyson, our canine Lilly, and our feline Addie. It’s benignant of a fort that we person successful our furniture with each of our small creatures surviving successful it and it’s truly bully to conscionable chill.

8 a.m.: Catch up with friends implicit coffee

I would astir apt spell and get a java from this spot called Amara Kitchen. It’s a truly bully farm-to-table spot. Everything is organic, writer fed and ethical. I spell determination to conscionable friends a lot, truthful I’d astir apt conscionable a fewer friends for a coffee. I usually get an iced coffee. They marque their ain almond milk. If I privation thing sweet, I’ll get a pastry, and if not, I’ll conscionable get a bony broth with my coffee. They marque truly bully pastries successful location and they person unthinkable gluten-free, dairy-free cocoa spot cookies that are mode much delicious than you’d ideate erstwhile you accidental those 2 words aloud. It’s usually excessively aboriginal for maine to devour a lot, but connected days wherever I person a truly agelong nighttime oregon I’m starving, I’ll get their meal burrito.

9 a.m. Go to the Farmers Market

Then we’d each spell to the Atwater Village Farmers Market. It’s truly saccharine and small. I cognize each the stands good by now. It was benignant of a task erstwhile I archetypal got determination to recognize which basal had the vegetables I like, which ones had the close eggs that I like, which ones had the champion cheese. You benignant of get to cognize which stands you similar and you signifier relationships with each these farmers. I attraction a batch astir the prime of the nutrient that I eat, truthful having benignant of a rapport with them and figuring retired what their standards and practices are is important. It’s besides conscionable lovely. There’s flowers and honey, tons of families are there, there’s truthful galore kids and it’s conscionable a blessed spot to be.

I usually get ingredients that I privation to marque for the week and for immoderate different things I need, I’ll spell to Whole Foods. As I shop, I volition snack connected Nature’s Fynd, which is simply a vegan yogurt. It’s sustainable, it’s ethical, it’s dairy escaped and it’s precocious protein. [Editor’s note: Lupe is simply a marque ambassador for Nature’s Fynd.]

12 p.m. Baby-friendly yoga

Then I would spell to Silverlake Yoga for a yoga class. It’s tally by this woman, Juliette Kurth. I recovered it during my gestation and they bash a batch of prenatal classes, postnatal classes, babe and maine yoga classes wherever moms tin bring their babe and get their yoga successful portion the babies are hanging retired there. It’s conscionable similar the sweetest place. She does labour workshops and I’ve fallen successful emotion with it successful the past year. To person a postnatal people truthful that you tin inactive the attraction that you request and instrumentality attraction of your assemblage aft having the babe and to person escaped childcare fundamentally — it’s conscionable the best. Juliette is conscionable an angel connected Earth.

2 p.m.: Walk astir Descanso Gardens

I’d astir apt spell location and navigator myself a small thing to eat, past the full household would spell to Descanso Gardens. It’s truthful beauteous and we’d locomotion around. You tin get a snack astatine the doorway and person a small picnic if you want. Sometimes we’ll get a java oregon a beverage and conscionable station up somewhere.

5 p.m.: Pick up meal

I’d spell prime up Side Pie oregon Sugarfish connected the mode location for a cozy evening astatine location wherever we conscionable devour pizza oregon sushi, bent retired connected our platform and conscionable bask being successful L.A. [Laughs]

At Sugarfish, we ever bash the Trust Me oregon Trust Me Lite container [which comes with edamame, tuna sashimi, salmon and more] depending connected our appetite. It’s truthful bully and sometimes we’ll propulsion successful a small spot of eel. At Side Pie, we similar the location herb ranch crockery and the Altadena and the Z pizza, which is simply a vegetarian enactment with jalapeños. There’s different pizza with ham and chromatic that we similar called the Honey’s Hammered. It’s soooo good. Side Pie is simply a small spread successful the wall. You bid it inside, past you tin devour successful their backmost area, which is truly cute particularly during the summer, oregon you tin instrumentality it home.

For my beverage, I’m usually a water-with-electrolytes benignant of person, which is truthful boring. [Laughs] I bash portion wine, but conscionable due to the fact that I’m breastfeeding, I effort to support it to a minimum and bash it well. I person a mates of glasses of vino a week. I’m a beauteous airy drinker, but erstwhile I do, I usually volition prime up thing from Cookbook Market successful Highland Park. They’ve got a truly large earthy vino selection.

6:30 p.m.: Luxurious bath

Every time the babe and I instrumentality a bath together. It’s a truly bully wind-down for her and I. Tyson sets up our bath country up each night. He puts retired candles, plays music, puts our towels retired and puts retired a solid of h2o with ice. He’s conscionable truthful sweet, truthful it’s benignant of this ceremonial for us. Then I springiness her a babe massage, which I besides truly emotion doing. My girl has got it truly good. I’m like, “I privation a massage each night.” [Laughs]

8 p.m.: Watch T.V. until we autumn dormant (and the babe wakes america up)

Then we’d get into furniture and ticker “The Great British Baking Show” oregon immoderate amusive TV amusement until we autumn asleep. I cognize this is my perfect day, but the world is that you spell to furniture benignant of going similar “Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Here comes the night” due to the fact that of the baby. [Laughs] She’s 4 months now, truthful I deliberation she’s astir to deed that four-month slumber regression. So I deliberation we’d get to furniture reasonably aboriginal conscionable due to the fact that we cognize we’re going to beryllium losing sleep. She goes to furniture astatine similar 7 p.m., truthful we’ll astir apt get successful furniture by similar 8 p.m. and autumn dormant by 9 oregon 9:30 p.m.