Watch: Jennifer Lawrence Steps Out Amid Rumors She Gave Birth to Baby No. 2Art doesn't necessarily reflect life for Jennifer Lawrence, but playing a new mother going through a raw postpartum experience wasn't entirely off her radar. "Having children changes everything, it changes your whole life," the Oscar winner told reporters in May at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where her latest film Die, My Love-starring Lawrence as a first-time mom who's losing her mind-had its world premiere. "It's brutal and incredible. They go into every decision of if I'm working, where I'm working, when I'm working." And with that, she more or less confirmed that she was a mom of more than one child, that she and husband Cooke Maroney had welcomed baby No. 2, a sibling for their now-3-year-old son Cy. While Lawrence was known for sharing outré, often hilarious anecdotes back when she was a party of one, she still had major qualms about being too visible as a public figure-and she tripled down on privacy after meeting Maroney and starting a family. photosJennifer Lawrence's Hilarious QuotesCy was born in February 2022, but Lawrence, who's turning 35 Aug. 15, didn't personally confirm his arrival, let alone his name, for months. "It's so scary to talk about motherhood," she said in the October 2022 issue of Vogue. "Only because it's so different for everybody. If I say, 'It was amazing from the start,' some people will think, It wasn't amazing for me at first, and feel bad."JB Lacroix/FilmMagicLawrence's empathy has always been at the ready, her aversion to hurting people's feelings or making anyone feel left out expressed at some point in almost every interview. But now she knows firsthand that all roads leading to motherhood are not the same-and that there's not just one destination. The Hunger Games alum told E! News in 2017 that she felt her desire to become a mom was waning as she got older, noting that when she was 21 or 22 she couldn't wait. As she quipped, "I don't think that's how it's supposed to work!" Though her relatable lack of urgency could have been attributed to having just starred in the horror allegory mother!-her then-boyfriend Darren Aronofsky's deeply disturbing take on it's-still-unclear-what that doesn't end well for mother or baby-Lawrence wasn't yet involved with her future husband.
Karwai Tang/WireImageShe met Maroney, director of Manhattan's Gladstone 64 gallery, in 2018 through a mutual friend and he ended up suiting the star perfectly. "He's just the best person I've ever met in my whole life," Lawrence told Entertainment Tonight about her then-fiancé in 2019, and agreeing to marry him was "a very, very easy decision." Which didn't mean she was blowing smoke when she told Diane Sawyer in 2015 that she didn't "really plan" on getting married. Rather, all it takes is (the) one.photosPregnant Jennifer Lawrence and Husband Cooke Maroney's PDA-Filled OutingSince her master life plan-whenever it came to fruition-included having children, regardless of whether she got married or not, Lawrence suspected that might help her zero in on Mr. Right one day. "I feel like if I find that one person who I want to spend the rest of my life with, who I want to be the father of my children, that I would absolutely not f--k it up," she told Vogue in 2015. "But I'm also not banking on that." She became Mrs. Maroney on Oct. 19, 2019, the pair exchanging vows in front of family and friends in Rhode Island.
Charley Gallay/Getty Images for W Magazine"I definitely wasn't at a place where I was like 'I'm ready to get married,'" Lawrence explained on NAKED With Catt Sadler in 2019. "I just met Cooke, and I wanted to marry him. We wanted to marry each other. We wanted to commit fully. And, you know, he's my best friend. I feel very honored to become a Maroney." Much later, Lawrence reflected on the anxiety she felt before she tied the knot-and during her wedding. "It's so stressful," she told E! News' Keltie Knight at the 2024 Golden Globes. "You're not having fun. You're just like, 'Is that person having fun?'"James Devaney/GC ImagesBut once she returned to acting in the drama Causeway, playing a soldier who's afraid of getting too close to anyone after suffering a traumatic brain injury, she was extra glad she'd powered through her prenuptial jitters. "Then I went back [after making the movie], and when I'm home with my husband making this family, I'm so happy I stayed," she told the New York Times in the fall of 2021. "I'm so happy I didn't freak out and cancel the wedding and run away and go, 'I'll never be taken down!'" The pandemic having elongated her already planned break from the spotlight, Lawrence was pregnant when she emerged from her bubble toward the end of 2021 to promote the end-of-the-world comedy Don't Look Up.
Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images"I just had a ton of sex," the visibly expectant actress cracked when Late Show host Stephen Colbert asked what she'd been up to during her acting hiatus. But she was als