Scarlett Johansson let a sockless Frenchmen impregnate her. Seriously! E! News broke the news yesterday that Scarlett and her fiancé Romain Dauriac are expecting their first child together. Romain and Scarlett just walked their first red carpet together over the weekend, at the Cesars in Paris. Before that, Scarlett and Romain had done events together, but they had consciously not walked the carpet together before then. So, baby = established red carpet couple? Is so, then YAY! I look forward to seeing more of Romain. I find him mildly fascinating.
Scarlett Johansson is going to be a mom! The 29-year-old beauty is expecting her first child with fiancé Romain Dauriac, a source confirms to E! News. The pregnancy news comes just six months after it was announced that the Oscar-nominated actress is planning to tie the knot with her French journalist beau. E! News confirmed the couple was engaged in September after ScarJo flashed her vintage Art Deco ring on that finger at the Venice Film Festival, with her rep adding that the lovebirds are “very happy.”
The expectant couple went public with their relationship in November 2012, not long after Johansson ended a roughly year-long romance with Nate Naylor. She and Ryan Reynolds divorced in July 2011 after almost three years of marriage. He tied the knot with Blake Lively last September.
And despite her whirlwind romance with Dauriac, Johansson is in no rush to walk down the aisle.
“I’m not doing any wedding planning,” the Her star said with a smile during an appearance on Good Morning America on Wednesday, Jan. 15, adding that swapping vows with her hunky man is “far off” from her mind at the moment.
But while her nuptials may not be her main focus, Don Jon beauty admitted to wanting children just before the New Year.
“I would like to have my own family, that would be nice,” she told the Daily Mail in December 2013. “They say it’s never the right time and I am sure that’s true, but I think you have to plan it like anything else.”
“At some point it is something I look forward to,” she continued. “I am fortunate in that I have had a long career—20 years—that has been very diverse. So, you know, picking a time to plan a family feels like something that I could do and not feel as though I was missing out.”
Which is a far cry from what she told Elle UK in December 2012, admitting to the publication that she “never” thought about marriage.
“It’s really not important to me,” she said. “The only time I ever think about it is when people ask me, ‘Would I get married again?’
“I’m not having kids anytime soon,” she added. “I’m in a nice relationship, I’m working a lot and, like I said, it’s not important to me.”
Some of you think Romain is shady. I don’t know. It could be that he’s not a famewhore and he doesn’t really care about the English-speaking media. I feel like that’s a solid possibility. Personally, my conspiracy theory was that Scarlett just liked the idea of dating a Frenchman, a non-actor, who wanted nothing to do with Hollywood. I thought this was a phase. But now they’re having a baby so… maybe it’s for real? Anyway, congrats to ScarJo and Romain. Yay, Franco-American babies!
Cough… Romain is packing a croissant in his pants, right?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I’m really surprised at this, but congrats!
Me too! Im also surprised she is having a baby before her ex and his wife!
I feel like Ryan is going to be upset and pressuring Blake
Wasn’t the gossip that they split largely cause he wanted to settle and have babies and she wasn’t ready?
That was the gossip, but I never saw anything that supported it. He never spoke with any urgency about children when they were married. He said it was far off in the future and he was working non-stop. I think they probably broke up for mundane reasons, like they rarely saw each other.
I am too. Neither of them has much of a career these days, so I would have thought they’d have had a baby by now to keep up some semblance of fame.
Because it IS a competition after all. …eye roll…
I thought that was what Scarlett said, or implied maybe–that they grew apart because they were always off working.
@Virgilia,
I recall reading that, too. It’s not good for gossip, but probably closer to the truth. Absence doesn’t always make the heart grow fonder. I thought they were a weird pair from the get go, tbh.
@Anonny,
Lol someone will always try and make it one. A reflection of our ultra competitve society, perhaps.
@lunchcoma,
He’s been working steadily in leading roles with some quality filmmakers. Comic books aren’t the end all, be all. Blake still pulls lucrative cosmetic contracts and is starting a new film. I’d be very surprised if we see their kids when they have them. No wedding photos probably means no baby pics, either.
It’s not Green Lantern that makes me skeptical about Ryan’s career, mercy. It’s RIPD and The Change Up.
R.I.P.D. was based on a comic book, apparently (yeah, I’ve never heard of it either.) The Change Up came on the heels of Green Lantern. He signed on for those stinkers around the same time. All of them feature stupendously bad writing and questionable direction. I can’t blame him for wanting to work with Bridges and Bateman, but they all deserved so much better. It’s a shame more people have seen those than films like Buried, The Nines, Smokin’ Aces, Definitely, Maybe and others that should erase any scepticism about his abilities. He moved himself up from sitcoms and teen comedies and he still has a career because he’s talented.
Congrats to them, he actually looks better than I thought he did (last photo was bad I guess) Now, I only have a vague understanding of how he’s supposedly shady, someone will have to fill me in.
I can’t decide if that last look is Ferrari or La Tigra. I have also heard whisperings of shadiness, but can’t remember what they were. Because I don’t care.
At least he’s prettier and seems lower key than her last über-skeezy bf AKA “The Hottest Guy on the Planet”!
*cough*
*snort* I had forgotten about him.
The Most Beautiful Man in the World? LOL
I think he seems like someone who’s uncomfortable in the spotlight. And obviously he tamed her, she didn’t seem that much in love with her previous boyfriends.
Maybe that guy should hook up with the “Croatian Sensation”. Lol
I too would like to know why people think he is shady. I looked around on the net the last time there was a Scarlett article and couldn’t really find anything. Apparently Romain Duraic isn’t his real name or something? If someone else has any idea, please let us know :).
He’s shady because he’s French. Sorry but to me he looks like a sleaze, just look at his hair. Ugh…
The type who will cheat on her soon after she gives birth. It is the way French men do it. I can’t believe she’s having his baby. Bad Scarlett. Bad. I thought she looked weird in these pictures – puffy, pimples…. now we know why.
@Forthelasttime:
I thought at first that your comment was satirical. Sadly I think that you are actually serious?
Other websites have suggested she likes rough sex, which he looks completely capable of providing. Wouldn’t bet on a long-term relationship with him, however. And I assume the baby will dull their bedroom fireworks, at least temporarily.
Meh, gayday beeping……
Well she was with Jared Leto who has made it known that he’s into S&M. So, there’s that.
Congrats to them!
Doesn’t Avengers 3 start shooting this summer? I wonder how that’s going to effect her role in that franchise.
Congrats to them! I was wondering about that too.
Avengers 2 may already be filming; Scarlet was scheduled to begin in April after her promo work for Cap 2 was done. E! Is reporting that they will fast-track her scenes, but I’m guessing it’s a bit of a scheduling nightmare given the number of moving pieces those movies involve.
Best bet is her stunt double ends up doing as much of the work as possible.
They’re going to try to get all her scenes filmed as soon as possible, beginning in April. She won’t fit into that cat suit for much longer.
Let’s hope Joss doesn’t ruin her character out of spite ala Charisma Carpenter.
One of reports I read said she is already 5 months along… if that is the case, the cat suit may already be a problem!
I wonder if actresses ever have ‘don’t get pregnant’ clauses in their contracts…
Whedon might be able to introduce Wasp as a character like he wanted to do in the first movie.
Rumor has it Lily Evangeline is going to be some version of the Wasp in Rudd/Douglas’s Ant-Man.
He could expand the Scarlett Witch’s part, I guess.
I can’t imagine her as a mother, she has always come across as very self-obsessed.
I can’t see it either. Hopefully for the babies sake motherhood will change her a bit.
As do most actors/actresses in Hollywood.
I was really surprised by this news, because I think she seems like a very selfish person. So yes, very surprising that she’s having a baby. I guess I always saw her as someone who would never have kids.
i hope that isn’t a dig at women who don’t have babies as being selfish? I thought that old-fashioned rhetoric went out years ago!!!
Not a dig at all. I am one of those women who don’t want children myself. To put it another way, Johansson has always struck me though as very self-involved, as in no one is more important than herself (so hard to see someone like that having a baby and putting her child first before her own needs/wants).
…except “selfish” women procreate all the time.
Hell, I was just reading a local story about a woman who locked her baby in the car in 20-degree temps so she could get drunk at a bar.
Plain-clothed officer at the bar ended up arresting her.
Scarlett in 2012: “not having kids any time soon” and the idea of starting a family right now is “not important to me.”
When you meet the right person you can change your mind…..can happen quickly even within the span of a year.
Angelina Jolie kept saying she didn’t want biological kids when she first adopted Maddox (now we realize because of her BRCA mutation) but then later after her twins she said Brad changed her mind.
Angelina already had children, though.
I hope it works out for the child’s sake.
Right! So glad she is not having Sean Penn’s child!
Yeah, well, last Friday night I got drunk, and on Saturday I said I’d never drink again, so….
Sometimes life throws you a curveball. Given the Avengers scheduling, I’d be shocked to learn that this baby was planned. Don’t we all have a friend or two who said she wasn’t ready, but who decided she could get ready when she found out she was pregnant? It’s hardly an unusual thing.
Or we should assume that people make anodyne non-comments to reporters. Or to everyone. I mean, I was telling people my husband and I weren’t thinking of kids any time soon while we were doing infertility treatments. I sort of feel like anyone who asks a woman her baby-making plans deserves to get a (polite) lie.
Definitely. I wasn’t so sure I really wanted kids and here I am with a 5 and a half week old newborn. I never imagined how badly I’d want kids until I was pregnant. It’s funny how things can change in an instant.
“I sort of feel like anyone who asks a woman her baby-making plans deserves to get a (polite) lie.”
I agree 100%! It is no one’s business, and I think it is kind of rude to ask. Let women offer that kind of info!
Just last year Scarlett gave an interview to Elle, that marriage was not important to her and months later she was engaged!
Couple of months later she tells Marie Claire and some other magazine outlets that motherhood is not anywhere in her plans in the near future and now she’s pregnant?
Congratulations to the couple. Hope its a healthy pregnancy
Scarlett is turning 30 this year so maybe she felt this was the right stage for her.
(I’ll STILL be surprised if they end up marrying. I’m guessing this will be a Kate Hudson situation)
Oh and lunch talk in our office was like she really seems to be following fellow child star Natalie Portman’s playbook right down to French guy.
I heard somewhere that they had a frenemy thing going. With Scarlett somewhat jealous of Natalie’s industry cache, multi-awards, and career path of low key movies mixed with the likes of Thor and Star Wars.
Hmm – I would not think that Natalie Portman is someone to be jealous of. I don’t think of her as much of an actress – she was pretty cringe-worthy in both Thor and Star Wars. Somehow I doubt Scarlett got together with a French guy because someone else did.
@Josephine
Objective. Scarlett is considered a cringeworthy performer in some outlets too, with an almost James Franco level of l’artiste pretension. She only got Black Widow cause Emily Blunt dropped out. And Portman has the awards glory Scarlett has been craving for. Though they both have dibs on the ‘pretentious’ angle
@Sandue
Millipied (sp) is no prize but there have been long been rumblings about Romain (professional and personal) in the Left Bank
Portman may seem insufferable, but she also seems intelligent, she is a good actress, and her husband is quite accomplished in his field. I don’t see this as a copycat situation, though.
Jegede – what’s the Left Bank?
But Natalie Portman husband is a loser who dumped his girlfriend and knocked up a movie star just so he could live the lifestyle of the rich and famous and further his career oppertunties. They didn’t even know each other well enough when she got knocked up.
Scarlett atleast knew this guy before getting knocked up like Portman did. Atleast her relationship didn’t start by the guy leaving another woman for her like with Natalie. This dude is very successful by his own right and doesn’t seem to chase the star status like Portman husband seems to desperately want. He doesn’t seem like a famewhore to me.
Portman’s husband is director of the Paris Opera Ballet, which is rather prestigious. She didn’t get that job for him; he got it for himself, which is an accomplishment. Yes, that doesn’t excuse any misbehavior towards other women, but it does show he is successful in his own right.
I was going to say, Natalie’s husband had made a name for himself before thet got together. Didn’t they meet when he was an advisor on Black Swan? It doesn’t seem like Scarlett has known this guy that long, unless they were friends while she was with the “most beautiful” one.
@sandue “knocked up a movie star…”
Like she couldn’t take responsibility for own contraception? Did he artificially inseminate Natalie, without her knowledge. A turkey baster, perhaps while she slept?
@lilacflower.
He only got the gig after being with Natalie. Even the experts at Paris Opera called him a mediocre talent and it was the Portman connection that really helped in his favour of getting chosen. To say he rightfully earned that spot is not true. He had the help of Natalies connections to get him that spot. Its the same with how he got the YSL deal. He is not a star nor is he even good looking, Natalie helped him with that again. Say what you want, but Nataile has really helped to further his career.
@mercy, He was only famous in the ballet circles. If he truly was famous by his own right, then how come he never got the Paris Opera gig, the perfume deals and all this exposure until Natalie? He is a no-name loser who is mostly famous for sleeping with a movie star. That’s his claim to fame.
I remember seeing Benjamin Millepied perform years BEFORE he met Natalie Portman at NYCB (New York City Ballet). He had such an unusual name that it stuck with me. He started out in the corps and was eventually promoted to principal dancer. Portman didn’t help him become a principal dancer or get into NYCB. He attended School of American Ballet in NYC on his own merit waaaay before Portman. You don’t just waltz into SAB–it takes talent (my own sister auditioned for the SAB summer program which she ultimately did not get in–it is one of the best dance schools in the world) and hard work.
Portman may have helped him post Black Swan, sure. But he was already successful in the dance world before she came along. He isn’t some ballet K Fed.
Lol “ballet K-Fed!” Love it!
@Amy
My point was he was never on gossip sites, celebs magazines, having the paps after him UNTIL Natalie. That’s my point. He is not in the spotlight for being a ballet danseur or being director, but as a dude who knocked up an actress to further his career oppertunties. Most people didn’t have a clue who he was until Natalie Portman. That is a fact. And yes, The fact that many insiders and experts at Paris Opera confirmed that he had benefitted from being the baby-daddy of Natalie Portman in his favour of getting chosen as the director shows that he is a gold-digger and oppertunsitc. None of the perfume deals, all this exposure and even the director gig would have come if not for his beloved.
People call him Ballet K fed because of how he quickly dumped his long-time girlfriend for a movie star who has the connections, the millions and the star power to help get what he wants.
And I know some of Millipede history with women. He uses women to get what he wants. Many ballet dancers have said this guy is rude and will do anything to get to the top. He used to date a ballet dancer who helped get him a green card in the US. As soon has he got his green card he dumped her. So He struck gold with Natalie.
I am saying that people who compare Scarjo fiancée with that POS Millipede are wrong. Scarjo fiancée doesn’t seem to be a famewhore or an oppertunistc like Ballet K fed.
Wouldn’t be surprised if she was trying to compete with Natalie. Scarlett is also about the same age as Natalie was when she got pregnant. Some people are saying this was a surprise baby, but I believe Scarlett meticulously planned it.
I think its pretty crazy to assume Scarlett is pregnant because of Natalie Portman. Natalie had a baby 2 years ago (ish?) This isn’t exactly at the same time. Futhermore, they aren’t exactly the same prototype of actress. Natalie is more of an Audrey, and Scarlett more of a Marilyn.
Plus, Scarlett is smartly not marrying this French guy (unlike Natalie). Whatever his profession, there is no doubt he makes a lot less money than her. Why should she give up 1/2, or have a long drawn out legal fiasco, if/when they inevitably split. I think Scarlett learned from her ex-husband, that she falls in love quickly and out-of-love just as fast. Her divorce proceedings lasted longer than her marriage.
Either way, living as lovers is very Parisian. Avoiding the co-mingling of assets is very practical. Win/Win.
I don’t see any competition with Natalie, but wanting to seem more “cultured” is a possibility.
Their divorce proceedings seemed to last about six months and the marriage lasted about three years. How much time they actually spent together during that time is another story. I thought I read somewhere that Dauriac comes from a wealthy family, but if it’s about money they could always get a pre-nup. Having a baby is an even bigger commitment than marriage. If I knew I fell in and out of love fast, I’d make sure to protect myself by being diligent with the birth control.
@Juliette, they are engaged. They do plan to marry.
The marriage was JUST two years. Two years, two moths. The divorce was seven-eight months depending on how your count, shorter than I thought based on my memory of the rumors and split. Still 26 months married. 12 months blissfully? 8 months divorcing.
@Thinker,
You’re right. I was thinking about when their relationship started. It seemed they were together close to three years in total. That creep who’s in prison for hacking her email said they were discussing splitting up their propery the summer before they filed for divorce (who knows if it’s true, and there should definitely be laws that prevent him from talking about his crimes, but that’s what he said.)
well that explains that outfit at least
It does!
Congrats to her. Fiance is handsome, I think. We’ll see about the staying power.
Tasteless Tuesday
It’s not a croissant, it’s a baguette!
merci merci
ROFL !
He looks a little rough to me. Like to much smoking and laying out tanning in the French Riveria!
To me he looks a little like Josh Brolin.
A twee, diminuitive, European Josh Brolin. I can see it. Hopefully he doesn’t drink and carouse like Josh Brolin.
She spends a lot of time in Paris, in fact I believe she’s been living there for the past year at least. I don’t know why people think he’s shady—dude has a legitimate job (he’s either a journalist or owns an ad agency…) and seems quiet. I bet this was a surprise baby, because Avengers 3 is supposed to begin filming in a couple of months…I wonder how they’ll all work that out? I guess they can fast track her filming maybe.
Hasn’t there been a lot of talk regarding his possible shady associations – he’s supposed to have several aliases, he calls himself a journalist but no one can find press credentials? It sounds a lot like A. Hathaway’s Italian fiancé from a few year’s back.
he was editor of a french magazine BLAST on urban culture
Avengers has been filming for weeks. A teaser trailer was released last week.
Congrats to Scarlett!
Yes, Avengers has been filming but not with any of the principal actors.
Congrats to them.
that kid’s face.
What?? Really??? I wonder who this source is. I don’t like him but if that’s true than congrats!! I bet it’ll be one gorgeous baby. Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively have to suck it up now, lol.
Cue Blake Lively’s pregnancy in 5… 4… 3…
I think Blake is due to start filming soon.
So guesses which actress bevomes mother next? I would say Anne Hathaway, Blake Lively, Keira Knightley and Jessica Biel are likely. However since the celebrity trend at the moment seems to be to get pregnant while engaged and these women are married so maybe not. I would not have guessed that Scarlett would have a child before Blake Lively anyway.
And I read somewhere she is already 5 months pregnant which I find hard to believe from this picture. But if she is I do not know how she could film the Avangers 2 now.
I thought Ryan and Blake would be pregnant by now. They seemed fairly family oriented when they got married. Also, does anyone know if there is any truth to the rumor Jessica Biel is already pregnant and laying low? I heard that one back in late January and still haven’t seem a picture of her to know if it is true or not.
Beil was at the oscars in a very fitted dress so no she not pregnant.
Not everyone rushes into having children. I’m a newlywed and kids are in our near future, but we fully intend to enjoy our time alone together for at least a couple more years.
Hahaha. I said last week that her navy jacket made her look pregnant. Guess I was right! Congrats to them.
Yes you did. Good eye!
I’m genuinely surprised. She always seemed so career focused, especially after scoring the Avengers role, that I wouldn’t have thought she’d want to muck around having a baby. Especially after the whole Ryan Renolds thing where it was all, “Ryan wants bebehs but Scarlett wants a career!” Not that we really know what went down but that was the media version of events. And now here she is having a baby with this other guy not too long afterwards.
Oh well, congratulations to them and I hope they’re happy.
You know sometimes it just takes the right dong and the next thing you know you’re doing everything you always said you never would!
I am very excited for her! Congrats to them on their new adventure!
LOL, ain’t that the truth!
I’ve found the gossip version is often the wrong version when it comes to celebs they don’t really know that much about, and who aren’t prone to spilling their guts in interviews.
Also Tmz is reporting that she is about 5 months along so she probably knew when she gave that interview in December.
I read she’s due in August, so she may or may not have known she was in pregnant in her December interview if she fell pregnant in November.
He looks like ryan reynold in the second picture!
Does he ever smile?
No, he’s too busy posing. Lap it up Frenchy, it won’t last long!
Something about him rubs me the wrong way. No rhyme or reason …don’t know anything about him other than the fact that he doesn’t wear socks with his tux which is kind of strange but harmless. Not sure why I feel that but I do. Something just feels off about their relationship to me. But I don’t know them so hopefully I’m wrong and they are happy and excited about the baby.
Yayyy, I get to use one of my favourite words for him. There’s a “louche” vibe about him. (Of questionable taste or morality; decadent.)
I don’t like making assumptions, but that is all we have to go on here. He looks angry in every single pic I have seen of him. Mean streak? Not that he’s unattractive, but he certainly doesn’t look like Mr. Congeniality. That’s all I got.
People!! He is French! French men are the centre of their own universe. They have zero respect for women. It is their culture. Read about what their president (Francois Hollande) did just recently and that is the norm.
I’m I the only one who questions the timing of this announcements ?
It seem like a a PR move to get people to stop talking about the Sodastream incident and focus on her being pregnant.
That’s a valid point.
(She is usually a private person I would say. I could have even seen her keeping her pregnancy/giving birth to herself)
I think it’s a stretch, tbh, and she hasn’t been that private post-divorce. Sean Penn, ‘Mr. Beautiful,’ and now this guy. The last two are civilians, and one lives in Paris. If she really wanted to keep them totally under wraps, she probably could have. But we know when they started dating, who introduced them, when they got engaged, etc., and there seem to be more pictures of her with them than there were of her with her actor husband of three years.
She’s shooting one of the biggest films in Hollywood right now. There’s not really a way she could just go quietly away and give birth. She’s on the radar, and people will notice.
She probably would have preferred to keep her pregnancy to herself but she is about to embark on a major PR tour for Captain America, during which there would be lots of opportunities for people to point out that various articles of clothing make her look pregnant, and immediately after, she is due to begin filming on an extremely expensive action flick in which she will be expected to wear a leather cat suit. The costume will give her away instantly AND there have to be liability issues involved with the stunt work and a pregnancy. She had to tell the studio.
Congrats to her, I guess. I’m already cringing in anticipation of her maternity fashion, though. She dresses so terribly the rest of the time, it’ll probably be hideous.
I think she will make a good mom. Mazel Tov!
Congrats to them!
He’s a journalist? I thought he was in advertising actually. She said as much during her interview with David Letterman and I’d heard that before.
Suspect my gaydar is going off.
congrats
That is going to be one ridiculously attractive kid.
I thought she was still dating Joseph Gordon Levitt. Where have I been??
When did they ever date?
Congrats to them!
I’m not a big fan of Scarlett. To me she always comes off as someone who is taking her fame and celebrity for granted. She didn’t became famous until after she changed her image from a regular girl to blonde bombshell and ever since that happened, she’s been expressing such disdain about people mentioning her looks and physical appeal.
Well now we know why that jacket kind of mAde her look pregnant! Congrats to them!
Congrats, Scarlett! You’re going to be a super cool mom!
Hopefully that means they limit her scenes in Avengers 2!
Congratulations are in order. I hope Scarlett and her fiancé have a healthy baby.
WHO CARES? She is about as interesting as bunch of dried socks.
Well she seems to have a type… He and Ryan seem similar in a few pics
I normally don’t follow her very much, haven’t read any interviews regarding personal stuff and so on, so I haven’t heard about her kids-not-now-comments. However after the last outfit …. she looked really pregnant. I only saw the pics and immediatly googled if there’s something on the way. Which makes me wonder even more how they will shoot Avengers because if she looks pregnant in a regular outfit just how will they explain it with the catsuit? She’s probably well past her third month (normally nobody announces a pregnancy before) and as it seems quickly showing. And that suit is TIGHT.
I doubt that they will have a pregnant Black Widow storyline? *g* Would be great though…
Good for her for finding a non-actor to make her life with. She has been living in Paris where you can be discreet and not papped (*cough* Ryan/Eve pap stroll in Pere Lachaise).
I say congrats.
Marvel are probably kicking themselves right now. Isn’t it a breach of contract to fail to look the part which you are hired for? I mean, Scarjo will be in her sixth month in April when she starts filming. I dare say, her bump will be quite prominent.
In a similar fashion Hemsworth can give up on his exercise routine for Thor and show up on set with stick-thin arms. Then have them film his face only and use a body-double and CGI for the rest. Actually, I hope he does exactly that. Why the privileged attitude toward her?