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Inside Jennifer Lawrence’s Life Now After Giving Birth to Baby No. 2: She’s ‘Is Putting Family First’
Looking casual, cool and a little bit quirky in a sidewalk-sweeping blue Yali Milano coat, red wide trousers by The Row and a Mickey Mouse tee, Jennifer Lawrence walked briskly through the streets of New York City on March 31. As she hurried along, observers who recognized the movie star behind her white sunglasses also noticed something else about her appearance — her baby bump had vanished.
Weeks earlier, Life & Style can confirm, the Hunger Games star quietly welcomed her second child with her husband of five years, Cooke Maroney. Though J-Law and the art gallerist, 40, publicly announced her pregnancy with Vogue last October, “she’s not sharing the baby’s name or gender yet,” a source exclusively tells Life & Style, noting the 34 -year-old waited months before revealing that information about her first child, son Cy, 3. “Right now, Jennifer is putting family first. She loves everything about being a mom and wants her new arrival to get all the love and attention their brother got when he was a newborn. Her world is all things baby: feedings, diaper changes and naps!”
Motherhood Changed Jennifer Lawrence’s Priorities
Before becoming a mom, the Oscar winner questioned how she could ever possibly “love my baby more than my cat,” she admitted to Vogue. Yet, “the morning after I gave birth, I felt like my whole life had started over. Like, now is day one of my life,” she shared. “My heart has stretched to a capacity that I didn’t know about.”
Thanks to their newborn, it’s expanded again. “Jennifer and Cooke can sit and stare at the baby and not say a word,” says the source. “They’re grateful to have each other and their little family.”
The Silver Linings Playbook actress “loves the comfy home they’ve built, and she adores living in NYC,” adds the source. “Though she and Cooke sometimes think about moving out to the suburbs, they also like the idea of raising street-smart city kids.”
At the moment, they ’re simply adjusting to life with a toddler and a newborn and the challenges that brings. “Juggling two kids can be a handful,” shares the source. “Jennifer admits it’s a little overwhelming, but she wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Jennifer Lawrence Is Selective About Her Acting Jobs
With nearly two decades in Hollywood in her rearview and years of parenthood in front of her, she’s considered stepping back. “I think about dipping out a lot when I’m working,” she told Interview. “I’m like, ‘I’m not going to be doing this forever. I’m tired. This is hard.’ Then you take a few months off, you read something terrific, and you’re like, ‘Oh my god, I have to make this.’”
Right now though, she’s being selective. Since embracing motherhood, the X-Men franchise star has only acted in a few movies as she leans into a second career as a producer. “There’s no squeezing [things in] when you have a baby,” she explained to Interview. “There’s just home, and it’s the best. It definitely helps weed out projects: ‘Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Is this worth being away from my child for half the day?’”
Jennifer Lawrence Considers Her Kids When Picking Jobs
She’s still the same refreshingly unpretentious, candid and charming J-Law fans first fell in love with. In 2023, the four-time Academy Award nominee stunned viewers with a full-frontal nude scene — filmed just months after she gave birth to Cy — in the raunchy comedy No Hard Feelings. “Everyone in my life and my team is doing the right thing and going, ‘Are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure?’” she told Variety, “[but] I didn’t even have a second thought. It was hilarious to me.”
And when friends and family encouraged her not to produce 2024’s Bread & Roses, a documentary about women’s experiences under Taliban rule, she did it anyway. “It’s dangerous,” she told CBS Mornings in November 2024, “but there’s 20 million women whose lives are in danger.”
Perhaps fittingly, J-Law shared with Interview that she’s just trying to be “a good example of kindness” to her kids. Though she once confessed that “every day of being a mom, I feel awful” — the mixture of guilt, fear and anxiety can be overwhelming — Jennifer also feels capable. “I know I can do it, and I know that I love it, and I know I’m doing a good job,” she said to Variety, “and that I’ll always try my hardest to do a good job.”
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