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Actress Keira Knightley quietly welcomes her second child

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Keira Knightley is in the newborn fog right now.

The actress, who never officially announced her pregnancy, was spotted earlier in the year rocking a growing baby bump.

But, it seems that baby No.2 has arrived, and she talked about it during an interview with Louise Minchin on BBC Breakfast posted to bbc.com last week.

The Pride And Prejudice star was on to talk politics and her role in a new film Official Secrets when she finally admitted she was a little exhausted with a newborn at home.

“I can’t remember what your question was. You can tell I have a sixweek-old baby, haven’t you? I’m talking but I have no idea where I’m going,” Knightley says.

British journalist Minchin congratula­tes her before taking the opportunit­y to talk motherhood.

While Knightley is very private about her kids and isn’t on social media, she is refreshing­ly honest when it comes to being a mom, which is evident in the interview.

“Can I just say this is about the third time since I’ve given birth that my hair has been brushed?” she jokes. “And I didn’t brush it,” she adds, explaining that her hairdresse­r did all the work alongside a team of people that got her out of her pyjamas and “led” her there.

She tells Minchin that she has six hours to work with breaks for pumping breast milk before she has to get back home for a feeding.

“There is a bit of extra milk, which I’d love not to use because it’s in the freezer and you know that can be tricky, but it is there,” she says.

Minchin comments that people don’t imagine that Hollywood stars have to deal with the stuff normal people do.

“What, pumping?” Knightley responds. “You definitely have to deal with pumping. Everyone has to deal with pumping, if you’re doing that and if it’s working and if you want to do that and you can do that, then yes we’re pumping. Pumping. So much pumping.”

But Knightley’s advice for “normal” moms without make-up artists and stylists?

“Then you should still be in your pyjamas and don’t brush your hair and let the house be a complete mess and only see people who are going to bring you food,” she says.

Knightley also shares daughter Edie, 4, with her husband James Righton. Edie is apparently a huge fan of Paw Patrol, which Knightley once called “toddler crack”.

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