News overnight: Scarlett Johansson is expecting a baby with her French fiancé.
The 29-year-old actress has been engaged to journalist Romain Dauriac for six months, and told Good Morning America in January that she isn’t currently doing any wedding planning. Maybe that’s because she has a baby shower to plan first?
ScarJo’s been married once before – to actor Ryan Reynolds. They were married for three years before divorcing in 2011. He married Gossip Girl actress Blake Lively last year. Scarlett also previously dated Josh Hartnett and Lena Dunham's boyfriend Jack Antonoff - but babies weren't on the cards. Until now.
Perhaps Scarlett's baby decision was in part motivated by that old life-imitating-art thing. When she received the Esquire accolade of Sexiest Woman In The World 2013, she revealed she was into the idea because it would give her an alternative route to casting agents recent attempts to pigeon-hole her into mum roles: 'You know, I gotta hustle. I'm a twenty-eight-year-old woman in the movie business, right? Pretty soon the roles you're offered all become mothers. Then they just sort of stop. I have to hedge against that with work — theater, producing, this thing with Esquire...'
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.