Good and surprising personal news for you. The 44-year-old actress announced in an interview that she is pregnant with what will be her third child. This will be the first with his current partner, the French music producer Tanguy Destable, known artistically under the name Tepr.
Portman told the news herself during a chat with the magazine. “Tanguy and I are very excited,” said the Jerusalem-born interpreter. “I am very grateful. I know it is a privilege and a miracle.” The actress is experiencing her pregnancy in Paris, where she has settled for years. She also claims to feel well and have “more energy” than she herself thought. After completing a couple of film projects, he now has free time, so he is practicing gymnastics and swimming to feel good physically, he says, and spending a lot of time with his two older children, “which is always the best.” She acknowledges that during her first pregnancies she read “a lot of books” and that now she is trying to let go. “You manage. In the end, we will make mistakes, it doesn’t matter if we try to do it right,” he explains. “I feel that the best thing is to be present and give love.”
The relationship between Portman and Tanguy, who creates music for films, video games and fashion shows, has been known for about a year, when it was aired by , but both, in Portman’s usual style, have carried it discreetly. By then, spring 2025, the actress black swan She had divorced the choreographer Benjamin Millepied, whom she met precisely during the filming of said film, directed by Darren Aronofsky, in 2010, when he prepared her for his dance numbers and for which she won the Oscar for best actress. The couple. By then they already had their first child, Aleph, who is now 14 years old. The second, Amalia, was born in February 2017, and is now nine years old.
Portman and Millepied’s divorce was complicated. Already in the summer of 2023, information was published about the infidelity of the dancer and choreographer, now 48 years old. Finally, in March 2024, a representative of the actress informed People of the final separation of the couple, explaining that Portman herself had filed for divorce in July 2023, and that this was made official in February in France, since the family lived there. In the same medium, a person close to said: “Initially, it was very hard for her, but her friends have been by her side and helped her get through the worst. Natalie is coming out of a really hard and painful year, but she has come out on the other side stronger and is finding joy in her family, friends and work.”
As the actress, producer and businesswoman explains – among other projects, she is the owner of – in Harper’s Bazaaris the daughter of a fertility specialist and, therefore, “is very aware of the challenges and pain that can accompany the process of trying to get pregnant,” the magazine says. She herself states in a statement that she grew up “hearing how difficult it is to get pregnant.” “There are so many people I love who have had a very hard time with this that I want to be respectful about it. It’s something so beautiful and happy, but it’s not easy either,” she explains. “That’s why I know how lucky I am. I’m very aware of that and I’m very grateful. I feel deep appreciation and gratitude.”
He also told the magazine that this will “probably” be his last child. “There is a gratitude that, when you are young, you don’t always understand,” she reflects on the process of becoming pregnant. “And there’s a serenity and a knowing of myself — knowing who I want to spend time with, what kind of energy I want around me — that makes the experience very beautiful, day after day. And, knowing that it’s probably the last time, I enjoy every moment.”
