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Jennifer Lawrence Is Pregnant With Her Second Child
Congratulations are in order.
Jennifer Lawrence and her art gallerist husband, Cooke Maroney, are expecting their second child. A representative for the actor shared the happy update with Vogue on Sunday, Oct. 20, and Lawrence later confirmed her pregnancy while out to dinner in Los Angeles, showing off her baby bump.
Lawrence and Maroney tied the knot in October 2019 after a year of dating, and welcomed a son, Cy (named after painter Cy Twombly), in February 2022. Speaking to Vogue later that year, the Hunger Games star spoke of becoming a mother for the first time, explaining how it can be a “scary” experience.
“It’s so different for everybody,” she said. “If I say, ‘It was amazing from the start,’ some people will think, ‘It wasn’t amazing for me at first’, and feel bad. Fortunately, I have so many girlfriends who were honest, who were like, ‘It’s scary. You might not connect right away. You might not fall in love right away.’ So I felt so prepared to be forgiving.”
Lawrence also got candid about her parental anxieties during a conversation with Viola Davis for Variety’s Actors on Actors series in 2022.
“Every day of being a mom, I feel awful. I feel guilty,” she said. “I’m playing with him and I’m like, ‘Is this what he wants to be doing? Should we be outside? We’re outside. What if he’s cold? What if he’s going to get sick? Should we be inside?’”
How Motherhood’s Changed J. Law’s Career
In a 2023 interview, the Oscar-winning actor explained how becoming a mom has shifted her approach to acting, making her more selective when it comes to choosing projects.
“There’s no squeezing when you have a baby,” Lawrence told Cameron Diaz for Interview Magazine. “It definitely helps weed out projects: ‘Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Is this worth being away from my child for half the day?’”
In the same interview, she also paid tribute to Maroney. “Fortunately, my husband is the greatest father in the entire world,” she told Diaz. “So when I’m working, I don’t have any more guilt than the usual every day, all-day parent guilt.”
