How Jacqueline MacInnes Wood’s Quest to Keep Her Kids From Her ‘Bold and Beautiful’ Life Backfired

On-screen, The Bold and the Beautiful’s Steffy Forrester was a happy, busy mom to two until a few weeks ago. Now, she is an emotional, anguished mom of two with a third on the way. Off-screen, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood is a busy, happy mom to five, with sons ranging in age from 1 to 7 years old. She is also a mom who has tried to keep her soap life separate from her home life.

Wood has been bringing Steffy to life on B&B for the last 18 years, per IMDb, seeing her character through various trials and tribulations that are not always for children’s eyes.

“As a parent, you just have so much more clarity, and you want to protect these little innocent beings,” Wood told PEOPLE.

However, sometimes fate steps in the way. Recently, Woods’ mom was watching her boys and took them out for a day of fun. Unfortunately, The Bold and the Beautiful was blaring on multiple TVs when Grandma and the boys reached their destination.

“And oddly enough, my sons went with Grandma the other day, and my mom said, ‘You know what? I’m going to take them race car driving.'” Wood relayed. “So, she took them over to this K1 place. And of course, right when they walk in, all the screens are on The Bold and the Beautiful.

With Steffy’s life being so topsy-turvy these days, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Woods’ sons caught her crying on screen. After all, Steffy recently learned that her one-night stand with Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor) resulted in a pregnancy, something she has yet to tell her husband, Finn (Tanner Novlan). But she explained that her oldest at least understands that this is just Mom’s job.

“He totally gets it, and he knows it’s acting and he sees me with my scripts, and that’s the beauty,” she said. I actually do love having my scripts around him, and they’re constantly seeing me reading, and they’re seeing me working my brain, and challenging myself.”