Keira Knightley’s Best Quotes on Parenting, Motherhood

Keira Knightley has been getting candid about her life as a parent since welcoming her first child in 2015 — and life with two has been even more interesting.

Knightley and husband James Righton didn’t formally announce they were expecting their first baby in 2014, but the actress did display her baby bump in several haute couture gowns during press for The Imitation Game.

Once the pair’s daughter Edie was born in May 2015, Knightley began speaking openly about motherhood. “The love thing is astonishing. It’s a very primal, primal love. That’s quite extraordinary,” she told Elle in August 2015. “And the ability to have no sleep and continue going. It’s not pleasant—I never thought that I could actually do it for the amount of time that I’ve done it.”

Knightley revealed in May 2019 that she and her husband were expecting their second child when she stepped out in Paris for a Chanel party with a baby bump. Their daughter Delilah arrived that September.

Scroll down for a look back at Knightley’s best parenting quotes since welcoming Edie and Delilah: