Blossom baby in bloom
Charlie Amter

LOS ANGELES—Blossom has blossomed indeed. All grown up former child star Mayim Bialik has given birth to a baby boy, her publicist confirmed to E! Thursday. The child, born Tuesday in Los Angeles, is the first for Bialik and husband Michael Stone. Her rep would not divulge the name or vital statistics of the newborn, but did say both baby and mom are doing “fine.”
Until recent appearances on Showtime’s Fat Actress and HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bialik, now 29, had been keeping a relatively low profile in Hollywood since the demise of Blossom a decade ago, focusing instead on her education—and what she described to People magazine as a “rebellious phase.” Of course, “rebellious” is all relative. Bialik made those comments just before she graduated from UCLA in 2000; she subsequently went on to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience, where she met Stone, a fellow student.
Bialik’s breakout role came as a young Bette Midler in the 1988 film Beaches. She followed that up with guest stints on The Facts of Life, Murphy Brown, MacGyver, Empty Nest and Doogie Howser, M.D. before landing what became her best known role as the spunky, wisecracking teen Blossom on the 1991-95 NBC sitcom that costarred Joey Lawrence and Jenna von Oy. Aside from a recurring role on The John Larroquette Show, Bialik spent the rest of the decade mostly doing voiceover work for such shows as Hey Arnold!, Recess, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest and more recently, Kim Possible.