Natalie Portman, 44, is pregnant with third child: ‘I know how lucky it is’

The new baby will be the first for Portman with boyfriend Tanguy Destable
Natalie Portman has announced she is expecting her third child — the first with her boyfriend Tanguy Destable.

“Tanguy and I are very excited,” the Oscar-winning Black Swan actor told Harper’s Bazaar .

“I’m just very grateful.

I know it’s such a privilege and a miracle.

Portman, the daughter of a fertility doctor, added: “I grew up hearing about how hard it is to get pregnant .

“I have so many people I love who’ve had such a hard time with it that I want to be respectful around that as well.

It’s such a beautiful, joyous thing, and it’s also not an easy thing,” she continued.

“And so I know how lucky it is.

I’m very aware, and I’m very grateful.

I have deep appreciation and gratitude.”
Acknowledging that this pregnancy is “probably the last time,” she said: “I cherish every moment.”
Portman noted: “There is a gratitude that when you’re young, you don’t necessarily grasp.

And there’s a calm and knowing myself: who I want to spend time with, what kind of energy I want around me that makes the experience so beautiful every day.”
The Thor: Love and Thunder star was previously married to Millepied, a French dancer and choreographer, from 2012 to 2024.

Portman quietly filed for divorce in July 2023 .

At the time, it was reported that Millepied had engaged in an alleged affair with a 25-year-old woman named Camille Étienne.

Neither has directly addressed the rumors, though Portman pushed back on coverage of her “personal life in a very public way,” previously telling People : “It’s terrible, and I have no desire to contribute.”
Portman is not the only celebrity over 40 welcoming a baby.

Aubrey Plaza, 41, is also preparing to welcome her first child with actor Christopher Abbott this fall.

Reports of Plaza’s pregnancy broke last week, a little over a year after the death of her husband, Jeff Baena, by sucide.

A representative for the White Lotus alum confirmed the news to People , saying: “It was a beautiful surprise after an emotional year.

They feel very blessed.”
Writing about the rising trend of older celebrities becoming pregnant in their mid-40s, The Independent ’s Charlotte Cripps argued that these celebrity “miracle” stories are “selling a sometimes impossible dream of motherhood over 40.”
They “make it sound easy-peasy to be older moms and have kids later in life, but that’s not always the case.

For me and countless other women who leave it until our forties, it is an utter nightmare,” she added.

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