Sienna Miller was “euphoric” after becoming pregnant in her forties
The 44-year-old actress had resigned herself to being a mother of one, to 14-year-old daughter Marlowe whom she shares with her ex-boyfriend Tom Sturridge, and was overjoyed to get pregnant later in life and welcome two kids with fiancé Oli Green
Sienna – who had a second daughter in 2024 and a son earlier this year, told British Vogue, “I had thought, by the time I was 40, that it wouldn’t happen. That I’d have my one baby and I kind of made peace with it. It was such a surprise, and it was such a bonus that I was just euphoric. I felt existentially relieved.”
“I’d wanted another baby for so long that my postpartum was just bliss. I also had the world’s easiest baby – she barely cried! She was so content. She was so peaceful. Of course, the hormonal shift happened, but I felt very cocooned,” she explained
Sienna admitted her positive experience with her second and third children was completely different to how she felt after welcoming Marlowe following “a dramatic emergency” C-section
“I felt quite abandoned by all the support I’d had throughout the pregnancy. There wasn’t as much focus on postpartum then. I remember people saying to me, ‘I’m not going to ring you because you’ll be in your blissful little bubble,’ and feeling so disappointed that it didn’t feel like that. I felt like I’d really failed,” the TV star recalled
And following her first emergency C-section and her second planned C-section, Sienna opted for a natural birth with her third, saying, “I really wanted to have a natural birth with my third, which is kind of unheard of – especially after two C-sections. And I did it.”
And, she signed up for The Tenth, a postpartum and maternal recovery outfit, to help her recover after
About which Sienna Miller said, “To have that support of somebody being concerned for your wellbeing, as well as the baby’s, is essential for women. And I think it’s probably how things used to be. With Marlowe, when the health visitor would pop by, I was so relieved to have somebody. It was unbelievable, invaluable.”
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