Natalie Portman He admitted that it was “difficult” for the awards season while she was pregnant in 2011, remembering a specific experience in the Oscar that year.
“I could not drink all those events, which was difficult,” said Portman, 43, the duration of the episode on Tuesday, May 20 of the “Dish From Waitrose” podcast. “It’s a lot of stress. It’s a lot of attention … and I was sober while everyone else.”
Portman said he was “so great” due to his pregnancy, which led to unwanted comments.
“Everyone said:” Oh, you will explode. “I thought:” I am four months pregnant. “Everyone said: ‘You must be giving light tomorrow.” I thought: “I have five more months to go.”
Portman joked, she was “probably the only actress who ate my way to the Oscars” that year.
In February 2011, Portman Tok Home the best actress Oscar for his role as Nina Sayers in Black Swan. She gave the then striking Benjamin Milepied -Who with her in the movie Set-a greeting in the acceptance speech.

“My beautiful love, Benjamin Millepied, who choreographed the movie and has now given me my most important role in my life,” Portman said at that time, referring to motherhood. (The couple welcomed their son, Aleph, in June 2011.)
Portman and Millepied, 47, married in June 2012 and expanded his family in 2017 with their daughter Amalia. Us Weekly He confirmed in August 2023 that Portman and Millepied had separated after 11 years of marriage. They end their divorce in February 2024 (it is widely informed that Millepied was unfaithful before the separation of the couple).
After his divorce, Portman has begun to speak more frankly about his role as a mother.
“My children are always a source of emotion, because you only see them become the people who are,” he said in a Interview Magazine Profile published last month. “I spend a lot of time with my friends, with their children and my children; that is quite fun.”
He was asked the same interview if having a family allowed “balance” in his personal and professional life.
“Having children, that was not really my motivation,” she replied, referring to her ex. “I was excited to have children, and with a person who was in love. But it is really important to have people in your life who keep you on the ground.”