Ellen Pompeo is revealing the exact moment her daughter prescribed herself a break from her mom’s hit medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Grey’s Anatomy is celebrating its 20th anniversary as Season 21 plays out on the 2025 TV schedule, and over the years that Ellen Pompeo has been portraying Meredith Grey, she’s given birth to three children.

Grey’s Anatomy isn’t just a TV drama, it’s a TV institution at this point. It’s been on for over two decades. It has created television milestones and raised an entire new generation of doctors. It may not be the Emmy darling that it was in its initial seasons,