Jenna Dewan Says Her Broken Pinky Finger Is ‘Still Healing’ After ‘Dumb Accident’
09.08.2023 - 20:33
/ usmagazine.com
Jenna 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? I’m gonna pick you up [but] it’s gonna take me