"A bundle of emotions"

Julia Stiles secretly became a mom for the 3rd time

Julia Stiles has become a mother for the third time.(Bild: JA / Everett Collection / picturedesk.com)

Baby joy! Julia Stiles (43) has become a mother for the third time - in 2023! However, she deliberately kept her pregnancy a secret.

Actress Julia Stiles has secretly become a mom for the third time. She announced the news almost casually in an interview published by the New York Times on Wednesday.

"I'm an emotional bundle right now because I have a five-month-old baby and I directed my first movie," Stiles admitted in the interview. She had previously decided not to tell the public about her pregnancy: "I haven't really talked about it."

The actress is an "emotional bundle" as she has a five-month-old baby and has also directed her first movie.(Bild: APA/Getty Images via AFP/GETTY IMAGES/Jamie McCarthy)

Being a mother is "great training"
She has not yet revealed the gender or name of her third child. She and her husband Preston Cook, whom she married in 2017, already had two sons together, Strummer (6) and Arlo (2). Being a mother is "great training for working as a director", explained Stiles in the interview with the renowned newspaper.

She only finished work on her directorial debut "Wish You Were Here" in February. She has always had to think ten steps ahead, which is also the case in her private life at the moment: "You have to have good time management. You have to be sensitive to people's needs and guide them, but also set boundaries." This applies both as a mother and as a director.

She announced Arlo's birth via Instagram
Nevertheless, Stiles also confessed that she is still in baby mode at the moment: "I'm hardly sleeping." Nevertheless, the bottom line is that she feels great and "more energetic than ever".

The "10 Things I Hate About You" star announced the birth of her second son Arlo on Instagram in 2022 and also posted some photos of her baby bump beforehand.