Amber Heard, the 38-year-old actress known for her role in Aquaman, is expecting her second child, according to a People magazine report.
This marks a significant moment in her life as she again embraces motherhood, far from the intense media scrutiny that followed her highly publicized legal battles with ex-husband Johnny Depp.
Heard, who is based in Spain, is said to be a few weeks pregnant. She has already had a child through surrogacy in 2021 with her three-year-old, Oonagh Paige. Not much is known about her pregnancy, but she posted that she was thrilled to add more to her family on December 5. Her representative ensured to clarify that she was a few weeks pregnant and much about her pregnancy would be kept private for now.
It has indeed been a new chapter of Heard’s life wherein she continues journeying her road towards motherhood with her choices. In a post of Instagram shortly after the arrival of Oonagh Paige, Heard was quoted stating how long she had really wanted to be a mother before this actual birth of Oonagh.
Four years ago, I knew I wanted a child. I wanted to do it on my own terms she wrote to her followers, hoping that we get into a place where not desiring a ring to have a crib is normalized. Heard’s decision to have a family without the institution of marriage speaks largely for so many women who are increasingly taking alternative routes to motherhood. This move also talks to independence and self-determination after having had some rather tumultuous few years in public eye.
Heard, at 38, is actually considered an older first-time mother as a woman’s fertility declines with age.
Studies show that with advancing age, the number and quality of eggs produced in a woman’s body decrease, which makes it hard for them to conceive. Studies have shown that women under 30 years have a 85% chance of conceiving naturally within a year. The percentage goes down to around 44% at age 40, and the rate of miscarriage is also higher among older women.
In fact, despite such biological barriers, women such as Heard are still choosing to get pregnant and bear children older in their life cycle while medical advancement options like surrogacy and fertility treatment add onto this possibility. It actually reflects some wider social changes too, when a woman is actually seeking a balance between both personal and professional aspirations before embracing the motherly aspiration.
He had been able to stay away from the fierce media highlights of her life with a divorce from Johnny Depp in 2017. Global citizens had all been engaged in the sensational and widely promoted divorce case against defamation among the couple. As of February 2022, in the court case, Johnny Depp had the upper hand in most claims.
As controversy lingers around her personal life, Heard appears to stay focused on her family and future. The move to Spain is like a fresh new life for her, giving the space to raise her daughter while expanding her family away from all the prying eyes in the media.
The Future Indeed, preparing her second child’s coming while yet discussing age, fertility, and changing motherhood As a good and silent woman who holds much within herself and tells but less, she remains unenlightened about details relating to her second pregnancy yet more candid about wanting to give birth on her terms of freedom of choice.
Amber Heard is going on the new page of life with so much challenge and victories along as she goes forward in life to motherhood again for the second time. It is like she is choosing a road that creates life however necessary.
