--- --- # Woman Wears Chewbacca Mask During Labor to Make Giving Birth More Epic by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jan 6, 2017 11:14 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jan 6, 2017 11:14 PM UTC Look out [original Chewbacca mom](http://time.com/money/4356563/chewbacca-mom-facebook-gifts-disney-college/), there’s literally a new Chewbacca mom in town. In the latest evidence that [Candace Payne’s](http://time.com/4566823/top-10-things-the-internet-couldnt-stop-talking-about/) viral influence lives on in the new year, a woman named Katie Stricker Curtis took to Facebook earlier this week to post a video of herself in a Chewbacca mask having a ball of a time in her hospital bed, [WXYZ Detroit](http://www.wxyz.com/news/mom-goes-viral-after-video-shows-her-wearing-chewbacca-mask-during-labor) reported. Stricker Curtis tells TIME that she was in labor at the time the video was taken. “Just because I’m about to be a mom doesn’t mean I have to grow up!” the new viral star captioned the brief clip on Facebook. More than 12,000 people have liked the video as of Friday afternoon. “Best Christmas gift ever!” she wrote of the Wookiee mask, making no mention of the other famous maternal Chewbacca figure. She did let everyone know that she gave birth to a baby named Jayden, and chalked up her new look to #pregnancyhairgrowth. Watch the video [here](https://www.facebook.com/katie.stricker1/videos/vb.584028506/10154333030228507/?type=2&theater). \[[WXYZ](http://www.wxyz.com/news/mom-goes-viral-after-video-shows-her-wearing-chewbacca-mask-during-labor)\] Video: Viral Mom Wears Chewbacca Mask During Labor ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4626861/woman-chewbacca-mask-during-labor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4626861/woman-chewbacca-mask-during-labor/"},"headline":"Woman Wears Chewbacca Mask During Labor to Make Giving Birth More Epic","datePublished":"2017-01-06T23:14:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:59.400Z","description":"She chalked up the new look to \"pregnancy hair growth\"","url":"https://time.com/4626861/woman-chewbacca-mask-during-labor/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4626861/woman-chewbacca-mask-during-labor/","name":"Woman Wears Chewbacca Mask During Labor to Make Giving Birth More Epic"}}]}] ```