‘Gossip Girl’ actress Kelly Rutherford has been granted a temporary restraining order against her estranged husband, claiming that his presence has been threatening to both Rutherford and her nanny.

In the legal filing, Rutherford claims that Daniel Giersch “has begun to follow me, my mother and my nanny and he shows up unexpectedly to threaten and scare us.” PEOPLE reports. Rutherford also claims that Giersch’s behavior and the stress that has been caused by it has affected her breast milk production.

“From time to time I have some extra milk, but I never know when…I believe that the stress Daniel has created for me is also negatively impacting my ability to produce milk,” the documents say, E!Online is reporting.

Giersch’s lawyer says that the claims are”fabricated accusations,” and that “Daniel will remain focused on co-parenting both of their children and not make any personal comments in order to continue to protect the children’s need for privacy and well being.”

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For Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford, the news that she was expecting her second child came as a bittersweet surprise. When she was three months pregnant, Kelly, 40, made the heart-wrenching decision to leave her husband, Daniel Giersch, and have the baby on her own. Their daughter, Helena Grace, was born on June 8 in LA. Now, for the first time since the controversial split, Kelly is speaking out to Life & Style about the life-changing choice, her bitter custody battle and her plans to raise her two children on her own.

The couple conceived Helena when they were trying to make things work. And when Kelly realized she was expecting again, she thought another baby might actually save her marriage. “I found out I was pregnant, and I thought, Oh, maybe things will be nice, maybe it will be calm,” Kelly recalls. “But it wasn’t. Things only got more intense.” The strain at home, Kelly reveals, was made even worse by her husband’s professional troubles. “He was very litigious,” she says. “He says he’s an entrepreneur, but I think he just sues people. It was very angry [behavior]. I was kind of scared to leave.”

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Though Kelly declines to go into specifics, her close friend and confidante Suzannah tells Life & Style that Kelly’s husband was “cold, controlling and paranoid — he threatened to ruin her career and sabotage her. He gave me the creeps, and he was beginning to get scary. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get away.”

Despite extremely tense relations with her ex, Kelly is flourishing in her new role as a single mom. And she doesn’t think she needs her ex to make her family complete. “A lot of great men, presidents even, were raised [only] by their mothers under those conditions,” she says.” “The most important thing is that the children have love and stability in their lives, whether that comes from a mother or a father. [Alone], I can raise them to be much more peaceful.”

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A rep for Gossip Girl actress Kelly Rutherford confirms to Life & Style exclusively that Kelly gave birth to an adorable baby girl named Helena Grace Rutherford Giersch at 9:20 pm in Los Angeles yesterday.

Helena Grace weighed in at 8 pounds 12 ounces. “Kelly and the baby are doing just fine,” the rep tells Life & Style.

This is the second child for Kelly. She has a two-year-old son, Hermes Gustaf. Also worth noting, Kelly’s ex-husband and Helena’s father, Daniel Giersch, was notified of the birth and invited to the hospital.

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A very pregnant Kelly Rutherford strolled the streets in West Hollywood, Ca June 2, 2009 after a lunch date with Marcia Cross. Kelly is expecting baby number 2 to join her sometime with in the next few days and is glowing with excitement.

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Forget 7-11. When Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford has cravings, she has to race to the farmer’s market.

“I crave a lot of greens when I’m pregnant,” says Rutherford, 40, who’s due to welcome her second child, a daughter, within days. “I love kale and chard, so I’ll steam that and then I’ll make an organic turkey burger.”

The actress says her second pregnancy feels more relaxed. “I’m making it a point to rest more,” says Rutherford, who together with son Hermés, 2 1/2, attended the 3rd Annual Kidstock Music and Arts Festival benefiting One Voice and the Scholars Program in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday.

She has also taken a “sustainable” approach to prepping for her daughter’s arrival, re-using many of her son’s baby furniture – including a white Target changing table – and baby clothes. “I’ve been trying to be smart about it,” she says.

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Although they both stated in January they’d try to co-parent amicably, Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford and estranged husband Daniel Giersch are facing off in court again in a dispute over their 2-year-old son.

Rutherford, 40, who claims son Hermes is in danger because Giersch, 34, leaves the swimming pool uncovered at his Los Angeles home, hired a private eye last week to conduct three days of video surveillance on the German businessman, court documents show.

“Hermes is very young, very active, not water safe and in a moment’s notice, could fall into the swimming pool,” Rutherford warns.

Although video footage showed the pool was indeed uncovered over three days, nothing egregious was witnessed, according to the investigator’s reports.

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“Hermes is not in any danger whatsoever with regard to my pool because I have the pool fully covered with an automatic pool cover,” Giersch states in his filing. “Hermes has no access to the pool area unless I take him to the pool myself.”

On Tuesday, however, a court ordered Giersch to keep his pool covered at all times unless Giersch is close by.

Meanwhile, a hearing set for Friday will address the couple’s differences over whether it’s too stressful a time to potty train Hermes while his parents are in the midst of a divorce and custody battle and since the child is about to become a big brother.

Rutherford, who’s pregnant with the ex-couple’s second child, a girl, is due to give birth in three weeks, court documents reveal.

Lawyers for both sides had no comment.

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