Jenna Dewan Says Her Broken Pinky Finger Is ‘Still Healing’ After ‘Dumb Accident’
usmagazine.comJenna Dewan broke her pinky finger during a recent workout – and it is “still healing.”“I’m over here, like, using [only] these three fingers,” Dewan, 42, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, August 8, while promoting her partnership with NEOSTRATA. “It’s a dumb accident.
It was just a true accident, but I did think to myself, ‘How funny that I’ve danced and thrown my body around for my entire life, but this is how I break a bone?’ So, that’s life for you.”Dewan – a former competitive dancer who got her big break in 2006’s Step Up – revealed via her Instagram on Monday, August 7, that she had injured her finger while performing a box jump in the gym. (A box jump is a high-impact workout where individuals jump from the floor onto an elevated surface.)“I initially thought that I broke a nail,” she told Us on Tuesday. “I was like, ‘Oh, I think I broke my nail.’ And then I looked down and was like, ‘Hmm, my nail’s still there.
OK, I heard a crack.’ It was not till the very end when I went, ‘Uh-oh.’”The actress promptly went to the doctor, who revealed that she had broken her finger and went on to wrap the appendage in a cast.“[For] four weeks you kind of have to wear it and go back,” Dewan explained to Us. “But it’s a hand.
It’s, like, there’s nothing a whole lot to do. Luckily it was not so bad [that I] need[ed] surgery or anything. So it’s more annoying.”Dewan’s family — fiancé Steve Kazee and kids Everly, 10, and Callum, 3 — have been supporting her recovery.“[Callum] went and told all [of his teachers], ‘My mommy has a boo-boo on her hand,’” she told Us of her toddler, whom she shares with Kazee, 47. “And so I say to him like, ‘My boo-boo on my hand, can you help me here?
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