Keira Knightley is also doing her final push for her Oscar nomination, just like her costar Benedict Cumberbatch. Although Keira seems more content with the idea that she’s not going to win, which is true. Keira seems to be having a lot of fun though, perhaps because she’s riding the wave of pregnancy hormones. She just seems happier than she’s ever been, and when she appeared on The Ellen Show, she was uncharacteristically chatty. They talked a lot about her pregnancy, how she’s dying for a cocktail, and whether she knows the sex of the baby. Some highlights:
She just wants a margarita: “I can’t drink. I’m up for an Oscar and I can’t drink at the Oscars. I went to the doctor – you have to get lots of doctor checkups when you’re pregnant – and she asked if I had any questions. And I said, ‘Yes! When can I drink!? Please! I just want a Margarita’.”
James Righton loves champagne: “My husband’s having a great time. I’m eating for two and he’s drinking for two. There’s a lot of free champagne so he thinks because I’m not drinking the free champagne he has to. All of it.”
The idea of having a boy: “Somebody said to me the other day the problem with boys is – sorry this is horrible – but when you’re changing their nappies you can get the wee in your face. Yeah you see? I’ve got a lot of people nodding at me, but I never knew that before so it was terrifying.”
Keira also said she and James hadn’t found out the sex of the baby and everyone has a theory about what she’s carrying. Ellen thinks she’s carrying a boy, but Keira said people have been telling her it’s probably a girl. As for the drinking thing – some doctors say different things, and I always think that British and European women get different drinking advice than American women. American women are usually told: don’t drink alcohol while pregnant, the end. But I’m sure many of Keira’s girlfriends probably have an odd glass of wine here and there. I’m actually sort of surprised that she’s not drinking at all! Although margaritas probably aren’t advisable under any circumstance.
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I wouldn’t trust myself with an “odd glass of wine” knowing I was only allowed one. But a margarita is more sugar than liquor. Surely a virgin margarita is doable. Now if she was all “I need double Patron straight up….”
I’ll have a margarita in your name, Keira! I need it too, I live in the Boston area and the parking lot of my complex looks like a ski resort.
I’m gonna drink with you! I live in Boston’s North End. We have had over 80 inches of snow this year, which is high for us. Parking Ban is still in effect.
Also, it’s snowing again right now. I need to move to a beach.
We got 14″ of snow yesterday here in my neighborhood in KY. The plows still haven’t come through my court so it’s been a fun day for myself and the neighbors trying to dig out! I feel for you in New England. We have more snow due tomorrow. Winter can quit now and go home already. Raise a glass for me as I quit drinking almost five years ago now. Cheers!
I’ll have one too! (Or just tequila as we don’t have anything else at the moment)
I’m right outside of Boston and it’s insane.
In France,the doctors ban to drink alcohol to the pregnant women. After the women do what they want
Really? Maybe it’s because of my nationality but my gyno couldn’t care less. She was a horrible doctor though. She would constantly yell at “what don’t you understand!”. She didn’t speak great English and my French sucks but I thought in such a fragile state of mind she could have been a bit nicer. And I’ve heard it’s okay for the odd glass of wine. I’ve never heard this in America. But then again the whole pint of Guinness thing wasn’t something I knew about until England so…
Whatt? Your OBGYN sounds like a terrible doctor.
French people don’t drink as much as you’d think. Only 13% of French people drink on the daily basis. And the policy here is pretty clear : no alcohol or cigarets during the pregnancy.
Ugh? LOL Funniest thing I’ve ever heard. About France of all countries where a glass of wine is the answer to all problems. Yeah, right. Wine was allowed, beer too,no concentrate.
I don’t think this is unusually chatty for her, she’s always chatty. She didn’t used to be for a time though, I think at the beginning of her career she was having a hard time dealing with it and she came across too conceited, but she hasn’t been like that in a long time.
Regardless of what docs say in different countries, better not to drink or smoke or eat for 6 for baby’s sake. Sacrifice for a few months before and after the birth, then you can do everything Keira. Hold on atleast for 6 more months girl.
I’ve worked with enough fetal alcohol syndrome kids to say don’t do it. Don’t even consider it. Yes we all seem to know that one women who drank a 6 pack a day and had a normal kid, but for every one of those there’s a dozen who will need a lifetime of assistance due to intellectual delays. It’s not worth the risk.
Deleted my comment because I’m inarticulate and stuff.
Lol. That’s the first step.
Absolutely. Good friends of mine adopted a baby 26 years ago despite being told the teenage mother drank during her pregnancy. That daughter has fetal alcohol syndrome and she’s been a nightmare – constant tantrums, ADHD, arrested several times for damaging property and dealing drugs, she’s uncontrollable.
yikes. I heard of a lot of children being diagnosed with autism in the early 90s were actually fetal alcohol cases that were misdiagnosed.
When my cousin was pregnant she said that all she craved was an apple martini. I told her to get a virgin one and she said that it’s “not the same.”
I think it depends on the doctor. My best friend’s OB told her that a drink a week later in pregnancy wouldn’t do any harm, and we’re American.
There are plenty of studies that show no harm when pregnant women drink lightly during pregnancy-ie a couple glasses of wine a week. one study has even shown that women who drank lightly during pregnancy have even better behaved kids. There’s nothing wrong with having a couple glasses a week while pregnant. this is a great article on the subject http://www.slate.com/blogs/expecting_better/2013/09/11/drinking_during_pregnancy_what_the_experts_don_t_tell_you.html
and the link to the study about drinking and behavior http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/16/health-pregnancy-one-glass-wine-week-fine-child_n_3097152.html
Of course it’s absolutely fine, otherwise half of Europe would be mental. Here one reads some catastrophic theories based on a/mothers who drank daily and heavily or b/some isolated very unlucky cases. The average European culture of drinking has produced generations of normal kids, please. Alcoholism, on the other hand, is obviously harmful, pregnant or non pregnant.
There’s a book by Emily Oster (a Assoc. prof of Economics) called Expecting Better. As a professor of economics she’s used to running statistics all day so she did this on a number of studies looking at alcohol intake in pregnancy and the incidence of behavioral/intellectual problems and concluded that as much as one drink a day during pregnancy is fine.
I think a drink once in a while is ok, I mean, having a drink is not equal to binge drinking. I;m not going to assume that pregnant women drinking Guinness are having kegers.
HAha, does this site realise that there are two Pri’s on here? Ill change my name though. Have a good day. 🙂
P.S.: Quite unoriginally I’ll call myself FKA Pri.
What? No! I’m European, and we’re specifically told not to drink during the pregnancy. Here in Poland there are warning labels on every bottle of beer, telling you that even one drink may cause irreversible harm to the fetus.
It may seem sort of alarmist, but the specific amount of ethyl alcohol which would be harmful to the baby has never been scientifically determined, so I guess better safe than sorry.
And also, and I can’t stress this enough, where I live we sure like our drink.
The labels are the law! Just like on the cigarettes packs!
I’m awful, we have the warning labels in aus too, it’s a siloette of a pregnant person in a circle with a line through it. I always say it means fat people shouldn’t drink it hahaha.
In aus our recomendation is none what so ever/ no safe amount. I didn’t drink, but know people who have while pregnant. Personally I am against smoking or drinking while pregnant, I wouldn’t want to cause unnessasary harm to my babies. But people will do what they do and no point in trying to tell them otherwise. First meal post twins was sushi haha
My personal thought (for myself, while I was pregnant) was “why risk it?” If I had needed a drink that badly, I had bigger problems than I thought. And one alcoholic drink wasn’t worth me spending the rest of my pregnancy worrying.
That’s my opinion, too. I doubt a glass of wine every now and then would hurt, and people did it for centuries before it was taboo, but why put yourself through the doubt and worry? I just wouldn’t drink for nine months to be on the safe side.
Exactly.
I wanted to do everything by the book so if there had been something wrong with my baby I would’ve know that at least I did my best. It would be horrible to have to live with the doubt that maybe it was that “couple of classes of wine a week”.
If you are not willing to do that for your baby’s health then maybe you need to thing about your alcohol use.
i agree, its not like its a bad thing to stop drinking for 9 months even if it wasnt dangerous to the child.
I never drank during pregnancy, but I was told one dark beer a day was GOOD for nursing mothers’ milk, so despite not liking beer, I drank one a day, and nursed twins. My adult daughters are now aghast at the idea of a nursing mom drinking, but I thought it was for their good!!
It’s still recommended 🙂 one dark beer helps milk supply, and you can time it so you drink right after you nurse so the alcohol is gone before the next nursing session 🙂
I just realised you nursed twins 🙂 me too! They are 11 months now and have teeth, but I’m attempting to get to 2 years, if they do t bite my nipples off
heehee bite your nipples off. sounds painful!
An occasional drink is totally fine. I had a half-glass of wine a few times a month after the first trimester and both my babies were fine. I ate sushi from a reputable place at least once of month too. No regrets having food and drink that I enjoy.
Same with both of mine! Had my good wine at the end of the week or a cold live beer and enjoyed my steaks. Jeez, the only thoughts I nurtured were positive and my boys and I were and are happy and well.
She is really great in the Imitation Game. It is nice that she is kind of playing it a bit low key for the awards— AnnE, take note,— but if she were to win the Oscar, it would be a nice surprise. The Imitation Game is a terrific movie, and because of it it, I have started watching The Bletchley Circle on Netflix. I wish I were a female coding genius. Awesome.
I had about 2 glasses of champagne with each pregnancy and the rest was -I was doing the eating and my husband the drinking.
My OB disapproved drinking and smoking and I started having a odd glass of wine after the boys started having mash for supper and I didn’t have to breastfeed till very late at night.
And none of them ever peed in my face while changing diapers but I had to laugh with each morning erection they had.
You are lucky! I had the one who would pee whenever the air hit his junk & he had great aim (me). I remember standing there with my boobs hurting, weird nursing tank open, getting peed on & thinking “What did I get myself into? Nobody told me about this!!” Oh, the delicate joys of motherhood.
Haha, you’re right. I remember clearly how the older one was teething…I was waiting for every single tooth about 1 month, he rejected all teething help and was biting only the leather pillows on our sofas.
I’ve always thought that with a dog and 2 cats there’ll be claw traces but we have baby teeth instead.
Yes, the delicate joys indeed!
Yea I was advised to open the diaper and then hold it back down for a couple seconds. My son wasn’t one to pee when the cold hair hit him. I think it happened twice.
I was told I was having a miscarriage at 8 weeks & I drank a couple glasses of wine that night & the next day. I didn’t miscarry (woo hoo) but the guilt & research I did afterward was intense. He’s totally fine (luckily I didn’t drink too much cuz I kept feeling sick). I did find out that different amounts of alcohol during different times in the pregnancy have different effects. Nobody can say exactly how much is “safe” & I think a lot of women who drank repeatidly during pregnancy report lower amounts then actually ingested. A glass in the third trimester is considered ok and the most harmful time to drink is in the 1st trimester (toward the middle to end). No drinking is the safe way to go but one glass during the third trimester is not usually cause for alarm. I sure had some sleepless nights….
Week 37, baby.
Her husband is so pretty. I love her black outfit.
I was horrified that when I found out I was pregnant I had been out drinking beer with friends. The doctor reassured me that it was so early in the pregnancy and it was fine. She (an American doctor) told me it was safe to have a small bit of wine while pregnant but I abstained anyway. I’ve since given up drinking altogether but I can recall that after I gave birth I really wanted to have a pint. But I couldn’t since I had such bad complications from HELLP syndrome, I was still on blood pressure meds for months. I was really happy when I could finally have a little Guinness again. But I think I was even happier when I could have coffee again. Especially when they are newborns and you are getting zero sleep.
I craved beer horribly with each pregnancy. Dreamt about cold beer. When my husband would open a beer, I’d take the first sip. (He would have maybe one a night) But, gosh, I wanted the whole bottle. Funny thing is, now I might have a few beers a year. Don’t crave it, don’t like the smell. I always wondered why pregnancy did that.
Yeah, Keira they sometimes pee. Our first peed almost at every diaper change. 2nd one was better behaved and 3rd also didn’t do it that much. I always kept receiving blanket close and did some super fast ninja dives to grab the cloth, cover the peener and save the furniture/my clothes/face. Fun times.
I think i saw them in babies r us. It’s called peepee teepee. There are some genius moms out there 😀
as for drinks – why risk?
I’ve never understood all the whining about not drinking during pregnancy. All the “well European women can do it so why can’t I” (which judging from some of the comments here is apparently a myth), “I feel like a child when they tell me I can’t” and all the blah, blah, blah I heard when I and my age peers were in our childbearing years. I did not drink during either of my two pregnancies (including the run up to said pregnancies, so to speak) and I don’t remember giving much thought to it it at all. And I say this as a person who really really really likes to drink!! It is only nine months at a time surely you can do without wine or whatever for that long just to be one the safest of safe sides, why not? Look if I could go without and without complaining anyone can.
God what is wrong with people?? No alcohol or smoking when you’re pregnant, period! No matter what “study” says a little is ok. You do not take any chances on a developing fetus….Is it really that difficult to stop for 9 months -_- It’s definitely one thing that is ok to judge, like seeing a woman pregnant and smoking, it’s totally justified to think she is a bag of sh*t. Do people have no self control anymore?
UGH it’s OK for you to feel that way but if people want to take risks, then that should be their prerogative.
Speaking of judging– When I was in law school I was at our local bar (US) and there was a girl there that was clearly pregnant (like 3rd trimester pregnant). Many people gave her a few looks but what really got me was the reactions from the young men. Absolutely disgusted and they did not care to hide their disdain. Easy for them to say, methinks.
Live and let live. I’m sick of the Mommy shaming.
After first trimester, I had one glass of red a week with 5 oz measured exactly in the glass. I did enough research to feel fine about my decision and my son is healthy and smart. I understand if women don’t want to chance it.
“We Europeans” do not usually drink during pregnancy. :p
I didn’t drink during pregnancy. My baby is almost five months now and I still had only one or two drinks since her birth because I’m breastfeeding.
I noticed that when I did have a drink she would wake up very early for milk again! So that did have some effect in my situation.
I absolutely love that James Righton seems to not mind escorting his wife to almost every event. Seems like a great guy to me.
Slightly off-topic, but I am always baffled when people say stuff like ‘Europeans generally do/don’t do this and that’. Genuinely not wanting to sound bitchy, but: do you realize that Europe is a continent with some 45 countries and about 700 million inhabitants that in total speak more than 80 different languages?
As a European myself, I have heard that there are huge differences in many cultural aspects even between the states of the US – and you guys live in the same country and mostly speak the same language, you identify with the same country, sing the same anthem, and share one constitution and legislation. We have none of that. There is no such thing as a common European culture, and I quite cherish our diversity. It is very enriching to travel around Europe and get to know people living close by, but having a completely different mindset and mannerisms. What holds for a Finn may sound absolutely ridiculous for an Italian. What a German considers to be self-evident can be seen as outrageous by a Hungarian. Which is why I am really curious where you get your information from when so refer to something as ‘typically European’ 🙂 I have never heard a European say something like that – if at all they relate a habit or attitude to a single country or region within Europe (say Scandinavia, for instance).
And for the record, I (German) was brought up with the idea that drinking and smoking during your pregnancy, especially in the first trimester, comes with zero benefits, but may put your baby in danger. The fact that some babies of mothers that didn’t adhere to that principle turned out to be just fine doesn’t disprove that – there is a the potential for negative effects on the baby’s health, not a guarantee. And if someone were to be informed about that, but still couldn’t live without her occasional glas of wine or beer for nine months, we would heavily side-eye her, I believe 😉