It’s been almost three months since we last saw Natalie in public, and today we learned the main reason: she’s pregnant with her third child. The father is her fiancé, French musician Tanguy Destable. The French tabloid Voici was the first to break the news this morning, but Natalie herself made the official announcement in an interview with Harper´s Bazaar. Here are a few excerpts from the article:

Portman, who is 44, is the child of a fertility doctor and has a keen awareness of the challenges and heartbreak that can accompany a fertility journey. “I grew up hearing about how hard it is to get pregnant,” she says. “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 adds, “And so I know how lucky it is. I’m very aware, and I’m very grateful. I have deep appreciation and gratitude.”

Gratitude is one of the feelings she notes she is experiencing more profoundly with this pregnancy. She has two children from her previous marriage to choreographer Benjamin Millepied: son Aleph, 14, and daughter Amalia, 9. “There is a gratitude that when you’re young, you don’t necessarily grasp,” she says. “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. And knowing it’s probably the last time, I cherish every moment.”

Physically, Portman says she is feeling great. “I have more energy than I thought I might,” she says, noting that this pregnancy feels similar to her previous ones. She says she’s swimming and doing Gyrotonics to “keep strong” and spending lots of time with her kids, “which is always the best.”

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/a71052648/natalie-portman-third-pregnancy-interview-2026/

Those of us who write for this page can only congratulate Natalie on her new pregnancy and wish her all the best. Unfortunately, the bad news for us as fans is that we’re likely to see another hiatus in her career. For now, we still have two Natalie-starring films awaiting release: The Gallerist, directed by Cathy Yan, which has yet to receive a distribution or release date since Sundance, and Good Sex, directed by Lena Dunham, which will premiere on Netflix at the end of this year or the beginning of next. We haven’t heard anything about Photograph 51, the film Tom Hooper was slated to direct, for months, so it will probably remain in limbo, at least for the rest of this year. Let’s hope we hear something more concrete soon.