Interesting facts you didn't know about Zooey Deschanel as she makes a comeback to New Girl Season 5

On January 19, 2016, Zooey Deschanel made a comeback to the 5th season of New Girl. This is after taking a 6 month maternity leave to cater for her first baby with husband Jacob Pechenick.

She had to wait until the third episode of the season title “Jury Duty” and we are hoping that she’s going to take the ratings of the show higher. The first two episodes weren’t received well by ardent New Girl fans. Also, the comeback was just two days after she celebrated her 36th Birthday, albeit quietly.

As we welcome her back to the show, I thought I should have a look at some of the trivia facts that you probably didn’t know about the New Girl star. So let’s get right to it.

Zooey Deschanel in a scene from the TV Series: New Girl

For starters, how do you pronounce her name? Probably not the way she does. That is, she’d like people to pronounce her first name Zooey as “ZOH-ee” and not “zoo-ee” as most of us would.

Did you know that she went to the same school as Jake Gyllenhaal and Kate Hudson? Yes, the three attended Crossroads, a preparatory school in Santa Monica. Zooey even appeared in the same movie with Kate Hudson on Almost Famous (2000). She also found herself with Jake in The Good Girl (2002), which also featured Jennifer Aniston.

The Elf (2003) star has French, Swiss, Dutch, and English roots. Her paternal grandfather was French, and she’s got the rest of the roots all mixed up from both of her parents.

Deschanel comes from a family of showbiz parents since her father is an Academy Award nominee cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, and her mother is an actress Mary Jo Deschanel. She also has an older sister Emily Deschanel, who acts on the comedy drama show Bones, which airs on Fox.

While growing up, due to her father’s job, she constantly had to move to different places and countries. She initially didn’t like it but then again, Deschanel later came to appreciate it. I mean, who wouldn’t want to travel all those places, especially as a child growing up.

The Go-Getter Girl (2007) star has ADHD (Attention Deficiency Hyperactivity Disorder) and she takes medication for it. This, for those who didn’t know, basically means that Zooey Deschanel has trouble following directions, concentrating, organizing tasks, and finishing work on time. But this only happens to patients who don’t take medication. Our beautiful and lovely Zooey embraces her medication.

Other than acting, she is a very good musician, and she’s been involved in quite a number of musical associations such as bands, music videos, etc. The Days of Summer (2009) starlet is known to be a very good singer and can also play keyboard, banjo, percussion, and ukulele. In 2008, she released an album, She & Him, with M. Ward after they teamed up in 2006.

Zooey Deschanel also has an entrepreneurial bug in her since she launched a YouTube channel called HelloGiggles, which was about an entertainment targeted towards women. When the channel became successful, she started the HelloGiggles.com, which was then acquired by Time, Inc. in 2015.

This lovely actress is allergic to dairy, wheat gluten, and eggs. And to make things even worse, she used to be a vegan. Zooey had to give up being a vegan because she wouldn’t have stayed healthy. Well, she had no alternative. How is it possible to be a vegan yet you cannot take dairy, eggs, or soya?