Busy Philipps is opening up about a moving conversation she had with her 12 year old child, Birdie, at the holidays. The 41-year-old actress shared the deeply personal story on the latest episode of her podcast,, noting that her eldest child is out and gay and prefers they/them pronouns. «So Birdie my out kid prefers they/them,» Philipps said. «I f**k up sometimes, but I'm trying my best at that too.»Philipps shared that her family recently watched the new Pixar film,, and afterwards she found Birdie in her room, lying on the ground in the dark and listening to Harry Styles' «Fine Line» on repeat. «I had a real flash of myself as a preteen slash teenager.