Alicia Vikander reveals she secretly welcomed 2nd child with Michael Fassbender: 'Second time was harder for me'

Alicia Vikander revealed she softly welcomed a 2nd kid pinch hubby Michael Fassbender. 

In a caller question and reply for ELLE UK, character Taylor Russell praised nan 35-year-old Oscar winner, saying she was 'so impressed' by Vikander's beingness activity connected their upcoming movie Hope, particularly since Vikander had 'literally conscionable had (her) 2nd baby.'

The Swedish prima replied, 'All women person specified different experiences, and going done it a 2nd clip was decidedly harder for me.'

She continued: 'But I deliberation training made it easier. Going done those 9 months is for illustration a marathon, truthful it does thief if you're beardown going into it. 

'It's truthful physically demanding, and I person truthful overmuch admiration for immoderate female who has done it.'

Vikander went connected to opportunity that she had portrayed childbirth on-screen 4 times earlier experiencing it successful existent life, adding, 'Your occupation is to dress arsenic an actor, but each clip I had to springiness birth, I said to each female connected set, "I'm sorry." I felt for illustration specified an imposter.' 

The prima kept further specifications astir nan couple's 2nd kid private. They softly welcomed their first child, a son, successful 2021 aft marrying successful 2017.

The beauty has been engaged moving connected her caller movie Firebrand, which centers astir King Henry VIII's sixth woman Katherine Parr. Jude Law will prima arsenic nan scoundrel of a King.

On uncovering a equilibrium betwixt her profession and individual life, Alicia added: 'I americium preparing for 2 jobs astatine nan moment, and I person travel to a constituent wherever I’m uncovering nan equilibrium betwixt activity and having a family. 

'I constrictive it down to 2 things now – nan group I really want to activity with, and nan projects that I consciousness are going to beryllium a creative, joyous time. I americium privileged that I person nan prime of whether I activity connected these large things.

‘I ever person nan blues erstwhile I decorativeness a job. Especially if it has been 1 of those bully ones, which arsenic I get older is what I’m seeking. 

'I had it connected Firebrand. It was a very reliable subject, but we had a awesome time. So, location is simply a sadness that it’s over, but it’s besides for illustration having done a sprint. I’m tired, and by nan extremity of nan occupation I’ve already started to look astatine thing else.’

‘You person to fto go. You can’t beryllium successful power of your ain work, which is simply a really unusual feeling. But past you realise that’s really what it’s for illustration to beryllium an actor. That tin beryllium really difficult sometimes. Obviously, moving pinch group and board you spot really helps.’

Alicia and her hubby Michael first began making love successful precocious 2014, aft they met connected nan group of their movie The Light Between Oceans.

The mates tied nan knot successful a romanticist ceremonial 3 years later, successful Ibiza, Spain successful October 2017.

The Swedish character revealed successful September 2021 that she had softly welcomed a babe boy pinch Michael, earlier that year.

Last year, Alicia opened up astir nan symptom she went done aft suffering an 'extreme' miscarriage earlier getting pregnant pinch her first child.

She said retired astir nan 'painful' struggles she faced connected her travel to becoming a mother, admitting to The Times that 'it took time' for nan mates to conceive their first babe together.

'We person a kid now, but it took america time,' she said, earlier revealing that she had suffered a 'painful, extreme' miscarriage earlier she sewage pregnant pinch her son.

She besides compared her experiences to her 2016 movie The Light Between Oceans successful which she and Michael played a childless mates who acquisition 2 miscarriages and yet adopt a babe woman who is mislaid astatine sea.

Alicia added: '[The miscarriage] was truthful extreme, achy to spell done and, of course, it made maine callback making that movie [The Light Between Oceans]. That movie has different meaning now.'

The Danish Girl prima added: 'Sometimes you spell done things that are reliable successful life and if you person an agency occupation you tin measurement distant for a bit.

She has avoided discussing her and Michael's kid publicly but successful an question and reply pinch Harper's Bazaar successful 2022, Alicia opened up astir motherhood, stating she ever puts her 'little family' first.

She said: 'In my small family, pinch my hubby and my child, we recreation together, always. That's nan rule. We do jobs truthful 1 of america tin ever beryllium pinch nan baby.'

During that aforesaid interview, nan Tomb Raider prima shed immoderate ray connected her fertility struggles, telling nan publication that she'd 'struggled for a while'.

She said: 'I tried to get pregnant for a while. So I had reliable times during lockdown. I struggled for a while. For a while I didn't deliberation that I could get pregnant.'

She added she decided to talk astir her issues to thief different women going done akin experiences.