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She had a healthy baby girl last week, but Grey's Anatomy star Chyler Leigh is still ready and willing to do interviews this week in advance of Thursday's climactic finale. What a trooper!

Here's Chyler's Q&A with E! Online, from this afternoon ...

Q: Things with Meredith and Lexie seem to be going strong. Do you expect that to continue?

A: There was that kind of desperation, a puppy-dog quality, at first. Lexie has such a great family dynamic that it's like, "Of course, why wouldn't you want to be my sister?"

But for Meredith, Lexie coming in like that - it was like a record scratch. But as far as I know, the relationship between the sisters continues to get better. Lexie's been growing a lot, and I think there will be more of the mutual respect between the two of them.

Q: Is Lexie at peace with Thatcher now, following his 12-step amends-making?

A: Lexie and her dad have such a great bond anyway that the apology was a much bigger deal to Lexie than to Meredith. Meredith was more like "too little, too late." As far as Lexie goes, for Thatcher to come in and have an apology made a really big difference.

Q: How would you compare and contrast Lexie's infatuation with George earlier in the year with her feelings with for Mark Sloan now?

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She's merely a few hours old right now, but Chyler Leigh's third child, Anniston (her second daughter), is already displaying a penchant for immaculate timing!

Leigh, 27, and her husband, actor Nathan West, 30, welcomed their baby girl this afternoon, just days after she wrapped filming the fifth season of Grey's Anatomy.

The actress' rep said in a statement: "Both mother and child are healthy." Hooray!

Little Anniston Kay, who weighed 7 lbs., 1 oz., joins Noah Wilde, 5, and Taelyn Leigh, 2. And the happily married couple hasn't ruled more kids in the future.

"We love our family," West told People magazine in November. "If I wasn’t working as much and [Chyler] didn't have the show, we'd have five or six kids."

The days of hiding Chyler Leigh's pregnancy have come and gone without a hitch!

The couple, who met at a pilot audition 10 years ago and co-starred on 7th Heaven, will celebrate their seventh wedding anniversary later this year.

Chyler Leigh "is a phenomenal actress and an amazing best friend, but hands down, mothering is what she does best," her doting hubby added.

The actress who plays her TV sister, Ellen Pompeo, recently announced she is pregnant with her first child. Babies on the brain on the Grey's set!

Congratulations to Chyler and her family from all of us at the Insider!

Was a pregnant Chyler Leigh inspired by Friends quotes or a certain Marley & Me and He's Just Not That Into You star when picking baby names? Who knows, but ...

"We're going with Aniston," the Grey's Anatomy star tells The Insider.

Leigh, 26, who plays Lexie Grey on the medical drama, is due in May. Aniston - if she's serious - will be her third child. The name may be unusual, but could be worse.

Chyler Leigh and husband Nathan West (who met on the 7th Heaven set) are parents, of a son Noah, 5, and a daughter, Taelyn, 2. We're excited for the new addition!

Chyler Leigh is going to be a mom - for the third time!

The Grey's Anatomy star, 26, and her actor-musician husband, Nathan West, 30, are expecting another child, her rep confirmed on Monday afternoon.

"She is a little over four months pregnant," Chyler Leigh's rep said, noting that "Grey's Anatomy won't be writing her pregnancy into its story lines."

Grey's Anatomy's Chyler Leigh and her husband Nathan West are already parents to a son, Noah Wilde, 5, and a daughter, Taelyn, 2. They have been married for six and a half years!

As we know, Leigh plays Dr. Lexie Grey, the neurotic half-sister of Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and intern at Seattle Grace on the hit ABC hospital drama. She first appeared at the end of Season Three and was made a series regular in Season Four.

Congratulations to Chyler and Nathan!

Actress Chyler Leigh may not be sure whether Lexie and George will ever be on the same page romantically on Grey's Anatomy, but there's one thing she knows for certain: Meredith's sister setting her sights on Derek Shepherd would have been a disaster.

In a Q&A with TV Guide, Chyler Leigh gives Grey's Anatomy fans the rundown on Lexie's love life, the tease of being Ellen Pompeo's "sister" and much more.

TVG: Let's start off talking about this week's episode, where "Lexie goes to great lengths to have George notice her romantically," says ABC. What's involved?

Chyler Leigh: Lexie Grey is just kind of throwing herself out there – obviously, in her mind, but he's just not getting it.

TVG: No, he's not.

Chyler Leigh: He's completely oblivious. [Laughs] Even little comments that she is making repeatedly....

TVG: Like, "Let's go out and celebrate you passing the exam!"

Chyler Leigh: "Let's go out and celebrate," and then she's left in the dust. Even so, she didn't really take that too close to heart. She just keeps throwing herself under the bus.

TVG: Do any of her tactics involve whipping out the Stuff Magazine cover you did a few years back with Mia Kirshner?

Chyler Leigh: Oh, lord....

TVG: Because that would raise George's eyebrows.

Chyler Leigh: Yes, but that wouldn't have been Lexie. [Laughs] And unfortunately it was me, many, many moons ago.

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The youngest and second-newest Grey's Anatomy cast member, Chyler Leigh, celebrates her birthday today. She is 26. Happy birthday to the lovely actress!

She's only been on 13 episodes (11 this season and two at the end of Season Three, when her character was introduced), but she's already left her mark.

While Chyler Leigh began her tenure on Grey's Anatomy as America's Most Hated, most viewers have warmed to young Dr. Lexie Grey now that she is not seen as an unwanted obstacle to Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd being together.

Here's wishing Chyler Leigh a happy birthday, and looking forward to seeing what happens with the Lexie-Alex-Ava love triangle when the show returns!

The cute brunette is stirring up Grey's Anatomy fans as Lexie Grey, and not just because she's so gorgeous - she's been the center of attention ever since she was introduced as the sister of Meredith Grey and recent love interest of Alex Karev.

Little is known, relatively speaking, about the past works of this actress. Well, that said, some Grey's Anatomy fans have unearthed a 1997 B-movie, called "Kickboxing Academy," that Chyler Leigh starred in when she was just 15.

Interestingly, the actress' love interest in the virtually unknown movie is played by her real-life brother, Christopher Khayman Lee. And yes, the New York Daily News reports, there are kissing scenes in the movie. A few of them.

Chyler Leigh, 25, has certainly come a long way.

Hey, whatever you have to do to get your career started, right? Chyler Leigh, who was in a number of failed series and smaller films before getting her big break on Grey's Anatomy, has also overcome considerable personal adversity in her life.

We're glad she's a member of the Grey's Anatomy cast and look forward to learning more about her - as well as seeing where her character is headed.

Here's the shocker from the first two (and, from the looks of spoilers, at least the next few) episodes of Season Four of Grey's Anatomy:

Lexie Grey doesn't hook up with anybody.

Not McDreamy, not McSteamy, not George. Nobody.

"Around here, it's the ongoing joke," the petite actress who plays Lexie, Chyler Leigh, tells the New York Post. "Who am I going to sleep with?"

Who indeed? As Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes tries to recover from a grim third season, she's trying hard to recreate a satisfying soufflé of sublime surgeons with fragile, complicated love lives and life-and-death medical crises.

The most potent new ingredient she's poured into the pot is Chyler Leigh, who plays Meredith Grey's Harvard-educated half-sister, Lexie.

Leigh interviewed for the high-profile role last November, but wasn't told until three days before filming the two-part season finale last April that her character would be Meredith's sister.

"This was all a huge secret," says Leigh. "They didn't want anyone to know I was coming."

But now the actress can fill in the blank.

"Lexie's mother died unexpectedly. Her father (Meredith's dad, Thatcher) is a basket case and drinking. "Lexie Grey was supposed to do her internship at Massachusetts General but came home to be with her dad."

Does half-sister Meredith welcome her with open arms?

Hardly. Especially after Meredith finds out that Lexie and Derek (Patrick Dempsey) have already met over drinks at Joe's Bar.

"Meredith pretty much doesn't want anything to do with her," Leigh said.

Leigh, who is married to actor Nathan West and has two young children, says she never watched Grey's Anatomy before the audition and had to play serious catch-up prior to joining the cast for Season Four.

When she found out last fall that she was up for a role, "my husband and I rented it on DVD and watched non-stop for about a day and a half. I was emotionally drained and exhausted. But I fell in love with the show."

Even the third season? Chyler Leigh pauses, and then decides not to censor herself. At 25, she is a quick-witted and intense young woman.

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Good thing Chyler Leigh has a sense of humor.

Talking about McDreamy and McSteamy with her on the set, Will Keck of USA Today complimented Chyler on her real-life McDreamy - a handsome actor.

Which was nice, until his name was mentioned (Jason Behr of Roswell), and Chyler looked as if the reporter were from another planet.

Jason Behr, it turns out, is actually the husband of Private Practice actress KaDee Strickland (and the ex-boyfriend of Katherine Heigl, incidentally).

Fortunately, Leigh just laughed and talked about her love for actor Nathan West, her actual husband. Unfortunately, she wouldn't fill us in on who her character is going to hook up with this season. Stay tuned on that.

New faces are checking in to Seattle Grace to help fill recent vacancies. Veteran actor Edward Herrmann, 64, signs up for a few episodes as Norman, the world's oldest intern; someone from the past may be returning (we're not telling who); as well as Diahann Carroll, as Dr. Preston Burke's mom.

But the biggest staffing change is Chyler Leigh, 25, who plays a character with a familiar last name: Grey. Meredith's half-sister, Dr. Lexie Grey.

While having another Grey around naturally complicates life for Ellen Pompeo's character, cast members rave about the addition of Leigh.

"She's the sweetest, coolest, funniest chick," says Katherine Heigl (Izzie).

"I think she is one of those girls who is quiet, because it's her first season on the show. I imagine it's awkward and difficult to come in to a cast that has been here for years. But you spend a little one-on-one time with her, and she's hysterical."

Chyler Leigh has much to celebrate beyond landing a role on one of the hottest dramas on TV in Grey's Anatomy. It comes after some very rocky times.

Born in Charlotte and raised in Virginia Beach, her folks divorced when she was 12. She moved with her mother to Miami, where the mother remarried her first husband. Like Lexie Grey, she, too, has distant half-siblings.

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If Chyler Leigh already feels nervous, like the new kid in school, let's hope she doesn't read too many Grey's Anatomy fan sites.

Leigh joined the show as Lexie Grey, Meredith Grey's half-sister and new Seattle Grace intern, for Season Three's final two episodes. Two weeks ago, she became a series regular.

The news hasn't gone over well with fans, but on her second day of filming on the Grey's Anatomy set this season, the new cast member tells People magazine that she - and everyone else - is happy to be back.

"Everyone is super gung-ho about the season," Leigh said. "Shonda Rhimes said in her blog that this is going to be a different season. Last season was so dramatic, everything came crashing down. This season will be the redemption from that mayhem."

The show was rocked by the controversy over Isaiah Washington's remarks, ending with the actor's dismissal and parting comments.

But Chyler Leigh, 25, says the experience of joining a hit show as big as Greys Anatomy has been a series of pinch-me moments.

"I'm still in every moment looking behind myself going: Who me?'" she says. "I still walk on and before every scene my heart starts pounding, but that's always been the case for me. I use it as a motivator."

Leigh is married to actor Nathan Woods and has two children with him, Noah, 3, and Taelyn, 10 months. She's had several roles to prepare her for the experience, including gigs on Reunion and The Practice.

"At first I had that kind of new kid in school feeling," the newest Grey's Anatomy star jokes. "But everyone has been warm and welcoming with lots of hugs and pats on the back. This whole experience has been wonderfully overwhelming. My biggest thing right now is just: Buckle up! I don't know what to expect."