Cate Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton have three sons, Dashiell, Roman and Ignatius. I always wondered if Cate and Andrew were trying for the girl at some point, just because Cate is such a fashionista and she seems like she would simply enjoy having a daughter. I guess Cate and Andrew did have some regrets, because word is that they have adopted a baby girl. They named her Vivienne!
Cate Blanchett and husband Andrew Upton have welcomed a beautiful baby girl into their family. Cate, 45 and Andrew, 49, have welcomed a baby girl into their family, their management confirmed today to The Australian Women’s Weekly.
The news came after Cate was seen arriving at her sons’ school to pick them up with the newborn strapped close to her chest.
“She’s really excited and clearly besotted,” a parent at the school reportedly told The Weekly. The new bub is believed to be named Vivienne.
Cate and her theatre director husband Andrew are reported to be deliriously happy with their new addition. The couple already have three children together – all boys. Dashiell, 13, Roman, 10 and Ignatius, six were all conceived naturally but choosing the adoption route is becoming a more common and viable option in Australia.
As Andrew confirmed a week ago, he and Cate are actually going to be uprooting their family from Australia, where they’ve lived for a decade, so they can move to America for a while. It’s believed that they’ll be living in LA, although I wouldn’t think a move to NYC would be out of the question either. Andrew said Cate wanted to do more film and TV work, but I don’t see how she could stay away from theater work, you know? In any case, we’ll probably be seeing more of this family of… SIX!
As for the name Vivienne… I like it! I like it on Vivienne Jolie-Pitt too. It’s a cute name for a little girl, especially with “Viv” and Vivy” as nicknames. Cate is actually quite friendly with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, so… I mean, I doubt anyone cares about a “stolen” (!!) baby name.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Congratulations to them.
That’s great! I love the name Vivienne.
Yes, I love the name too. It’s on my short list for if we have a girl since we need something that is French-English bilingual. Beautiful.
The baby’s name is Edith Vivian Patricia Upton, not Vivienne.
She seems low key when not in the red carpet, bit I bet that baby girl will inherit some great and very classy stuff from Cate!
Congrats! Vivienne Upton sounds nice, but Vivienne Blanchett would be even more awesome – that sounds like someone who would’ve hung out with Marie Antoinette 😀
I don’t know.. This just sounds fishy.
How? She has not even talk about it in her last appearances promoting Cinderella and has always said she wanted a girl. And it’s always nice when a baby finds a loving household.
Whaaaat? Why would you even think that? This isn’t some famewh0re who needs some way to stay relevant. Cate is one of the best, most well-respected actors out there. They wanted a baby girl to add to their family, that’s all. I think this is wonderful!
Calm down no one said she was.
What could fishy about this? Just a classy actress who had several boys adopting a baby girl.
Congratulations if it is true.
Not only did Brad & Angelina name their daughter that, Tom & Gisele also named their daughter Vivian. It’s such a sweet feminine name.
And yep Brad & Angelina are close friends of Cate and Andrew.
Close friends wouldn’t name their child the same name, to me. So I can’t imagine they are that close of friends. If my close friend named her child the same name as my daughter, unless a family name like after a mother or grandmother, I would not be happy.
Close friends do it all the time.
I get where you’re coming from, Jayna. I wouldn’t do it, either. Matter of fact, my fella and I recently did actual happy dances when my best friend decided not to use our favorite little girl’s name for her new daughter. We knew if she used it, we wouldn’t.
Who says they named her? If the baby is adopted, she may have been named Vivienne before the adoption took place. It may have been the birth mother’s choice.
I know a bunch of people expecting babies, and almost all of them have liked a name but opted not to do it because a close friend or family member already used it. In my experience it’s not common among close friends.
These families are friends, but I don’t think BFF, hang out all the time friends, considering Cate & fam live in Australia, so if they chose the name I don’t think it would be a big deal. But as Rachel said, she may have already been named that and they kept it.
Whatever the case, congrats to them! They seem like great parents.
@lucy2
Lol, one of my mom’s close friends just named her youngest baby after my little sister–they have 6 kids, and all of their names RHYME….let’s just say the dad’s first name is “Baron”….
I don’t really see a big deal, either way. Unless it’s some completely made up name, you’re gonna meet someone who has the same name as you. And I’m extremely picky about names, and I tend to favor some “obscure” ones (like if I ever have/adopt a baby girl, I’m going to name her Roxana–it was Alexander the Great’s first wife/Queen’s name, and I LOVE it), so if someone loved a name that I’d picked out for my kids, I’d give myself a mental high five.
what’s this assumption that stars are close friends just because they smiled together for a pic in some awards ceremony? I think many times fans tend to create fan fiction about how their favorite celebs lives would be and they just assume it is like they think or dream on. I’ve never saw a single picture of these two couples spending time together or heard any stories about them together…
Happy news indeed! I saw a photo of her some days ago with the baby in her arms and she looked very happy. Congrats to her and her family.
Congratulations, little Vivienne will surely get a lot of love and attention from her big brothers.
Ugh, I’m just not a terribly big fan of nicknames. Vivienne is such a lovely, classic name. No need to shorten it to Vivy.
I love the name Vivienne, and I love nicknames! I like Viv or Vivi!! When I was a little girl, (years, and years, ago) there was a kids show called Romper Room, with Miss Jean. There was a segment where Miss Jean tried to teach good behavior from bad behavior…The good behavior was called a Do Bee and the bad behavior was a Don’t Bee (She had a picture of two bee’s on a chart) and my Dad called me DoBee, from the time I can remember, until I was 13 and thought I was too old for such a silly nickname and asked him to please stop calling me that! How I wish my Dad was alive to call me DoBee! Sorry, for the long story….just brought up a great memory for me…
I remember Roper Room! What a lovely memory of your dad. Keep on being a DoBee😊😊😊
That’s actually a very lovely story.
I don’t hate all nicknames, btw. Sasha for Alexandra doesn’t bother me a bit, and silly nicknames not at all related to a person’s given name are fine, but this ‘hacking off half a name and adding y/ie/i on the end’ business makes me cringe.
Romper Room! Omg, thanks for the memories! I’m all about nicknames. In fact, my son has a totally random nickname that other people have now started calling him. And my dog Ella’s nickname IS ViVi, which morphed from calling her Baby! I consider them special forms of endearment.
A woman who had four kids (2 homegrown, 2 adopted) said that the kid who arrived as a very young infant was the first infancy she was able to really enjoy. With her two homegrown kids, she was too exhausted from the pregnancy! Needless to say, she highly recommended adoption….
that last line is very curious – “Adoption is becoming a more common and viable option in Australia.” Can anyone explain that?
Megs Australia has very low rates of adoption. Only about 250-300 adoptions per year I believe for a population of 22 million it’s very very low. Overseas adoptions are becoming more common as the government and agencies are forming agreements with other countries for adoption.
The red tape around the adoption process has long been a barrier for families in Australia, especially for overseas adoptions. It’s slowly getting easier, with the government relaxing some of the restrictions. Hugh Jackman and Debra Lee Furness have campaigned heavily about it over the years.
Hugh Jackson’s wife was very outspoken about how hard the Gov in Australia made it for families wanting to adopt.
Adoption in the US is unethical as hell. Adoption in other first world countries is more ethical, and therefore more rare.
Pfft, Woman’s Day is a trashy tabloid mag…
Adoption is very, very, VERY difficult in Australia. It typically takes many years to go through the process. There are all sorts of baby-related things that are legal in the US that are illegal in most other Western countries. Commercial surrogacy, for example, is banned in Australia. The things that Kidman-Urban and Jackman-Furness (and presumably Blanchett-Upton) have done are simply not an option in Australia.
Good luck to them, though, they seem like a loving and stable family.
Congrats to them
Congrats to them! Cate has talked about wanting to have four children, so this makes sense.
I wonder what country they adopted from?
Aww, Congratulations to her, him and their family!
It is sad though, that she wasn’t able to give birth herself to a daughter. And now of course at the age of 45 she can’t, won’t be good for health.
Huh? Did you just step out of 1930?
I think adoption is absolutely wonderful! Mr Coco and I only want two kids and will probably adopt the second so we can have a boy and a girl. It’s only the ego that dictates wanting to have biological children at this point in history when our planet is so overpopulated. Spiritually, we bring in the soul that’s meant to be part of our family, whether it’s through biological birth or through adoption. There are a lot of kids who need love out there and adoption is just so love filled and absolutely useful.
It’s so sad that she couldn’t have a real biological daughter.Poor Cate had to settle for an adopted daughter because her eggs are all shot
#Sarcasm
Maybe Cate and her Hubby have always wanted to adopt.I am tired of people treating adoption as always the last option.
That’s ridiculous – everyone I know who has chosen to adopt loves their adopted child as much as their natural child. As Coco says above, we bring the soul we’re meant to parent into our lives whether or not it’s biological. Congratulations to a wonderful couple who have a lot of love to give.
It’s difficult for a man his age to get a woman pregnant. When they do population studies they’ve found that male fertility drops at the same rate a woman’s does. A man his age will usually take 2 or 3 years to get a very young woman pregnant. Miscarriage rates go up significantly the older a woman’s partner is. She is 90% more likely to have a miscarriage than if she was with a 20 something. Two studies linked increase rates of pregnancy complications to paternal age as well. It goes both ways.
Their child would also be at a higher risk for several different genetic disorders because of his age, as well. She is 4x as likely tp have a child with Down Syndrome because of his age and there is a higher risk for autism, schizophrenia and developmental disabilities.
that’s ridiculous my sister gave birth at 49, after years of trying and her baby is perfectly healthy. What an uninformed and narrow minded person you are. Of course it is a hard and long road, but the main risk comes by HIS age, not her eggs…
Such a lucky little girl!
I enjoyed watching the Sydney productions that came to NY after their initial run at home. Maids was fantastic! I hope she does more theater.
awwwww! Congrats.
Congratulations to them! Vivienne is a beautiful name.
She and her husband seem so cool. A friend of my brother’s met Cate B. and Andrew Upton, doing some business for them, and the whole time he thought she was Kate Winslet and made reference to Titanic, etc. He didn’t realize his mistake til later; not once did Cate and her husband correct him or anything like that, lol. And they still hired him.
After Mae, Mable/Maple, and whatsoever, seems like Vivienne is the last trendy name in Hollywood.
As someone (way upthread) commented, the baby’s name is Edith Vivian Patricia Upton.
All lovely, old-fashioned names ~ perhaps a nod to an older generation of Blanchett/Upton women. And if the child’s name is shortened to Edie, you’ll get no argument from me.
One rule for the wealthy in Australia, and then there is everyone else. Adoption is so difficult and hard here, there is no way they did not buy this baby in some way, whether it was buying a surrogate or buying an overseas adoption. Tbh I am kind of dissapointed in Cate with not just being happy with 3 boys. If this kid is white…then she was definately manufactured (sarcasm) overseas, so unethical.
I don’t blame people for doing it if they can. The system is the problem. Adoption in Australia is at its lowest level for more than 25 years. And frankly, money is involved either way. They don’t let poor people adopt kids in Australia, IVF is expensive etc. You need money either way. I do wish more people would consider fostering, though, as there are many kids who aren’t babies who need good homes (although this system is also problematic as it’s swung too far in the opposite direction away from adoption).
Congrats to them! She had all those boys and now a girl! Cate and her husband remind me of Meryl Streep and her husband. Low-key, solid marriage with someone who is not a movie star.