Keira Knightley has been getting candid about her life as a parent since welcoming her first child in 2015 — and life with two has been even more interesting. Knightley and husband James Righton didn’t formally announce they were expecting their first baby in 2014, but the actress did display her baby bump in several haute couture gowns during press for The Imitation Game . Once the pair’s daughter Edie was born in May 2015, Knightley began speaking openly about motherhood.
“The love thing is astonishing. It’s a very primal, primal love. That’s quite extraordinary,” she told Elle in August 2015.
“And the ability to have no sleep and continue going. It’s not pleasant—I never thought that I could actually do it for the amount of time that I’ve done it.” You have successfully subscribed.
Subscribe to newsletters By signing up, I agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive emails from Us Weekly Check our latest news in Google News Check our latest news in Apple News Knightley revealed in May 2019 that she and her husband were expecting their second child when she stepped out in Paris for a Chanel party with a baby bump. Their daughter Delilah arrived that September. Scroll down for a look back at Knightley’s best parenting quotes since welcoming Edie and Delilah: Credit: Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Keira Knightley's Best Quotes About Parenting 2 Children: Motherhood Is 'Quite Extraordinary' Keira Knightley has been getting candid about her life as a parent since welcoming her first child in 2015 — and life with two has been even more interesting.
Knightley and husband James Righton didn’t formally announce they were expecting their first baby in 2014, but the actress did display her baby bump in several haute couture gowns during press for The Imitation Game .Once the pair’s daughter Edie was born in May 2015, Knightley began speaking openly about motherhood. “The love thing is astonishing.
It’s a very primal, primal love. That’s quite extraordinary,” she told Elle in August 2015. “And the ability to have no sleep and continue going.
It’s not pleasant—I never thought that I could actually do it for the amount of time that I’ve done it.”Knightley revealed in May 2019 that she and her husband were expecting their second child when she stepped out in Paris for a Chanel party with a baby bump. Their daughter Delilah arrived that September.
Scroll down for a look back at Knightley’s best parenting quotes since welcoming Edie and Delilah: Credit: Dave Benett/Getty Images for ERDEM and FARFETCH Raising a Daughter With Dyslexia Knightley revealed during an August 2024 appearance on the “Ruthie’s Table 4” iHeartPodcast that one of her daughters is dyslexic just like her, and both of them have trouble with sight-reading. “It really bounces. But I listen to it.
Basically, I record it and listen to it and listen to it and listen to it, and that’s how I learn it,” she explained of how she learns, noting her daughter is “doing the same thing.” The actress gushed about her little one’s progress saying, “It’s absolutely amazing. She’ll look at books.
She’ll memorize the book, basically. It’s amazing.” Credit: Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Jumping for Joy Knightley thought it was “important” to be “happy" for her daughters during the coronavirus pandemic, she told Harper’s Bazaar U.
K. in June 2021. "We have a trampoline in our garden, and we decided we were only allowed to wear dresses on it,” the actress explained.
"I put on red lipstick every day and every bit of Chanel that I have in my cupboard, and my daughter Edie had Chanel ribbons plaited into her hair and fairy wings. I thought, 'What is the point of these lovely things sitting in the wardrobe, when it feels quite apocalyptic and scary outside?’" Credit: YouTube Quarantine Cutie "The baby, who I thought would be [sitting] and very easy to look after for quite a while, at 9 months just decided to get up and start walking,” Knightley said during a September 2020 Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon appearance. "I think at any other point if we hadn’t been locked down, I would've been like, 'Whoa, my kid's a genius!' And as it was, I was just like, 'Sit the f--k down.
We are not ready for this as well.'" Credit: Anthony Harvey/WWD/Shutterstock Better Safe Than Sorry "If I don’t do it my boobs will explode ,” Knightley told The Telegraph of pumping in October 2019. “I mean, quite literally.
It’s going everywhere. So, you know, that’s not happening. The pump is with me.
It’s fine." Credit: Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Busy Bee “You can tell I’ve got a 6-week-old baby,” the actress said on BBC Breakfast in October 2019. “I’m talking, but I’ve got no idea where I’m going.
This is about the first time since I gave birth that my hair has been brushed — and I didn’t brush it . Lovely Luke, who is my hairdresser today, he brushed it. I was in my pajamas when they got there and this is somebody else’s dress.
” Credit: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Pros and Cons “Any actresses out there, do not move the child from the cot to the bed when you’re just about to play a lead role in a film that has a lot of words in it because remembering them is quite tricky,” the actress told Associated Press in August 2019 of filming Official Secrets while sleep-training her daughter . “I felt very on edge.” Because of that, she was able to use “all” of those emotions while acting.
Credit: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Time to Play “We’re really deep, deep, deep into Paw Patrol ,” the actress told Jimmy Fallon on a March 2019 episode of his show. “It’s like toddler crack, isn’t it? ..
. We have to act it out as well. We have bath toys.
Paw Patrol is in the bath, and she’ll only let me be Rubble, but Rubble is rubbish.” Credit: James Devaney/GC Images Aftermath So how has motherhood affected her acting career? “I think I play everything differently now that I’m a parent,” the star told The Inquirer in March 2019. “Obviously, it just has an impact on your point of view about everything.
Certainly, a woman who doesn’t have a child could play a part and do a perfectly good job, but I think there are certainly nuances that the experience brings to you that I might not have thought about before I had a kid.” Credit: Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images Tough Time “I don’t think we give women enough credit for the physical and emotional marathon they go through when becoming a mother,” she told Balance in January 2019. “I come from a place of amazing privilege; I have an incredible support system; I’ve been unbelievably lucky in my career; I can afford good childcare, and yet I still find it really fucking difficult.
It’s OK to say that.” Knightley added: “It doesn’t mean I don’t love my kid, it’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’m failing on a daily basis.” Credit: Kristy Sparow/WireImage Movie Buff When it comes to Disney movies, Knightley picks and chooses which ones she lets her little one watch.
“I just wonder what Elsa would say to Ariel and Cinderella because Elsa has some serious opinions about Anna going off with a guy that she’s only just met and saying she would marry him,” she told The Press Association in November 2018. “She is like, ‘Absolutely that is not OK,’ and in fact, everyone in Frozen is not OK with that.” She noted: “What would Elsa say to Ariel, who gives up her voice for a man? A man, by the way, she has only seen dance round a ship and then drown! And it’s 100 percent amazing of Ariel to save the guy, I’m totally up for that, but what would Elsa make of that? I think Elsa would be like: ’Babe, you’ve got to get to know him better, don’t give up your voice yet.
’” Credit: Courtesy of Michael Rozman/Warner Bros. Dream Job When it comes to her daughter’s career aspirations, Knightley revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in October 2018, “She did want to be a dentist, which I was super happy about because I thought, ‘You know that’s a stable career’ ..
. It was Peppa Pig. There was a dentist episode.
Now she wants to be a lion, which I think is slightly more problematic. But she roars very well! ..
. I am going to support her in anything that she wants to do.” Credit: Vera Anderson/WireImage No Sugarcoating Besides bashing Kate, the actress opened up about her childbirth experience in detail in her October 2018 essay.
“To my girl: My vagina split,” she wrote. “You came out with your eyes open. Arms up in the air.
Screaming. They put you on to me, covered in blood, vernix, your head misshapen from the birth canal. Pulsating, gasping, screaming.
You were pushing yourself up with your arms, furious at your frailty. Wanting to see. Wanting to know .
.. I remember the s--t, the vomit, the blood, the stitches.
I remember my battleground.” Credit: Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for BFI Gushing Over Her Girl Knightley is a big fan! “She’s great in every way,” the new mom said of her daughter on The Jonathan Ross Show in December 2016.
“She’s obviously a genius, and obviously the best child in the entire world and very well-made.” Credit: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images Shut-Eye After three years, Edie still wasn’t sleeping through the night , Knightley told Us Weekly exclusively in September 2018. “She has occasionally slept through the night, but not in any kind of prolonged sense.
” Credit: Amanda Edwards/WireImage Lots of Love “The love thing is astonishing,” the model said of motherhood in her 2015 Elle cover story. “It’s a very primal, primal love. That’s quite extraordinary.
And the ability to have no sleep and continue going. It’s not pleasant ― I never thought that I could actually do it for the amount of time that I’ve done it.” She added: “Also, I have to say, as a woman, you hate certain parts of your body.
You go through those periods where you look in the mirror and you think, ‘Oh, if only I had different legs or arms or whatever.’ You go through pregnancy and labor and then feeding the kid and you go, ‘Wow, my body is totally amazing, and I’m never going to not like it again, because it did this, and this is f--king extraordinary.’” Credit: MediaPunch/Shutterstock Tough Film Critics The Boston Strangler star revealed during a March 2023 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that Delilah did not enjoy watching her mom in The Nutcracker and the Four Realms "at all.
” Knightley explained: “She was like, 'You should be dressed in rainbows, and why are you so angry?’” Edie, for her part, “wasn’t impressed” by Pirates of the Caribbean . “She watched 10 minutes. She was far too terrified,” the British actress recalled to Jimmy Fallon .
"She said, 'I don't want to see you doing that.’ She said, 'I don't like you in that, you're too pretty. But don't worry, you're not anymore.
’” Credit: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock It’s a ‘Partnership’ “It has to be a partnership. The heavy lifting of childcare has to be acknowledged,” Knightley told Harper’s Bazaar UK in March 2023 of parenting with Righton. “It’s hard work, it’s vital, it’s undervalued.
And it’s so exhausting.” In order to view the gallery, please allow Manage Cookies For access to all our exclusive celebrity videos and interviews – Subscribe on YouTube!.
