Keira Knightley Finally Reveals Daughter’s Name
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Randy Holmes / ABC(NEW YORK) — Keira Knightley has finally revealed her daughter’s name three months after she welcomed the baby girl with husband James Righton.
In her first interview with Elle magazine since the birth, the actress revealed she’s named her daughter, Edie.
Knightley also shed light on life now that she’s a mom. “The love thing is astonishing. It’s a very primal, primal love. That’s quite extraordinary,” Knightley said. “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 said she’s come a long way since her 20s, which she said “were pretty crap.”
“My career was absolutely amazing; in fact, I don’t think my career will ever get better than it was in my late teens, early twenties. But as a person, you’re changing so much and you’re trying to figure stuff out,” she recalled. “It took me a lot of years to try and stop pleasing a lot of people and allow myself to have fun. It’s the difficult thing of getting out of your own head. To stop going, ‘Oh, there’s something I should be doing, there’s a way I should be behaving, I should be dressing…’ All of those shoulds, you can drown in them.”
The actress said therapy helped her get through the rough patch. “I highly recommend it,” she added. “I don’t do it at the moment. But in my early twenties when I found everything completely overwhelming, 100 percent, I did it! Are you kidding? I think when you’re in those moments in your life, and you want to get through them…you have to do whatever it is to help you get over it. You have to give it a go. Try anything that might help.”
But Knightley said although she looked forward to turning 30 back in March, her birthday party wasn’t exactly what she pictured.
“I was heavily pregnant, I couldn’t drink — what is the point of having a thirtieth birthday if I couldn’t get phenomenally drunk? But my husband took over, arranged a lovely lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, 20 of us, and they were all being so sweet, like, ‘Look, you can have a great time and be sober!’ she said.
“And it’s fine apart from the fact that they started drinking at about one. Then they came back to our house — they’d covered it in balloons that said my name and happy birthday and all that — and they got completely obliterated,” Knightley added.
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