{"id":281547,"date":"2019-10-11T08:50:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1066058"},"modified":"2019-10-11T08:50:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:50:37","slug":"keira-knightley-reveals-she-quietly-gave-birth-to-baby-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/keira-knightley-reveals-she-quietly-gave-birth-to-baby-no-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Keira Knightley Reveals She Quietly Gave Birth to Baby No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"52.214363735664\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201942\/rs_634x1024-190502152437-634.keira-knightley-james-righton.ct.050219.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Keira Knightley, James Righton\" alt=\"Keira Knightley, James Righton\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Marc Piasecki\/GC Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"45.855561704483\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/keira_knightley\">Keira Knightley<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;has revealed that she welcomed her second child six weeks ago&#8230;and&nbsp;Mama is exhausted!<\/p>\n<p>It was reported in mid-September that the actress had given birth. She confirmed the news in a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/entertainment-arts-50012498\/keira-knightley-i-m-all-for-peaceful-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC Breakfast<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;interview on Friday to promote the U.K. release of her new movie, <em>Official Secrets<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can tell I&#8217;ve got a 6-week-old baby, can&#8217;t you?!&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m talking, but I&#8217;ve got no idea where I&#8217;m going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is about the third time&nbsp;since I gave birth that my&nbsp;hair has been brushed\u2014and I didn&#8217;t brush it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Lovely Luke, who is my hairdresser today, he brushed it. I was in my pajamas when they got there and this is somebody else&#8217;s dress&#8230;so it&#8217;s all smoke and mirrors today, which I&#8217;m super happy about, but I&#8217;ve just sort of been led here. And I&#8217;ve got six hours, so this is my workday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Knightley&nbsp;and&nbsp;husband <strong>James Righton<\/strong>&nbsp;are&nbsp;also&nbsp;parents to daughter&nbsp;<strong>Edie Knightley Righton<\/strong>, who they welcomed in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The actress&nbsp;first revealed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1037890\/surprise-keira-knightley-is-pregnant-with-baby-no-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she was pregnant<\/a> back in May when she showed off her bump at&nbsp;a&nbsp;Chanel-hosted cocktail party in Paris, France. As she and her husband walked by photographers at the event,&nbsp;Keira, clad in a Grecian-inspired empire waist gown,&nbsp;lovingly placed her hand on her belly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year,&nbsp;she spoke candidly about the struggles of motherhood in an interview with <em>Balance<\/em>. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we give women enough credit for the physical and emotional marathon they go through when becoming a mother&#8221; she told the magazine.&nbsp;&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t love my kid, it&#8217;s just me admitting that the sleep deprivation, the hormonal changes, the shift in relationship with my partner, are all things that make me feel as if I&#8217;m failing on a daily basis. I have to remind myself that I haven&#8217;t failed, I&#8217;m just doing what I can do, but it&#8217;s not easy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.43137254902\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"21.647058823529\">\n<p>Knightley made headlines last year for writing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/974447\/keira-knightley-criticizes-kate-middleton-s-postpartum-behavior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">controversial essay<\/a> about her childbirth experience, in which she critiqued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kate_middleton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kate Middleton<\/a>&#8216;s postpartum actions and compared them to her own. The actress&nbsp;later&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/976261\/keira-knightley-denies-shaming-kate-middleton-in-impassioned-childbirth-essay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clarified her remarks<\/a>, saying some outlets had &#8220;misrepresented my meaning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks later,&nbsp;when asked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/meghan_markle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meghan Markle<\/a>&#8216;s pregnancy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/videos\/279311\/keira-knightley-opens-up-about-meghan-markle-s-pregnancy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keira acknowledged<\/a>&nbsp;the pressures mothers&nbsp;face, saying &#8220;Every woman has to deal with the demands of our culture in whatever way she deems fit for herself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, the A-lister is surprised at how quickly her little girl Edie is growing up, jokingly calling her a &#8220;threenager&#8221; during an&nbsp;appearance on&nbsp;<em>Live With Kelly and Ryan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Admitting the tot wanted nothing to do with mom, Keira said &#8220;she&#8217;s good now&#8230;we seem to have got out of that and now she&#8217;s just into&nbsp;<em>Paw Patrol<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to this family of four!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1066058\/keira-knightley-reveals-she-quietly-gave-birth-to-baby-no-2?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Piasecki\/GC Images Keira Knightley&nbsp;has revealed that she welcomed her second child six weeks ago&#8230;and&nbsp;Mama is exhausted! It was reported in mid-September that the actress had given birth. She confirmed the news in a BBC Breakfast&nbsp;interview on Friday to promote the U.K. release of her new movie, Official Secrets. &#8220;You can tell I&#8217;ve got a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-18 04:55:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}