Rooney Mara is pregnant and expecting her second baby with Joaquin Phoenix

Parents

By Nicki Gostin

Rooney Mara is expecting her second child with Joaquin Phoenix.

The actress, 38, shared a glimpse of her baby bump while posing for photographers at the 74th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, on Friday.

Mara, who was celebrating the premiere of her new film, The Kitchen, wore a strapless black Givenchy dress as she cradled her baby bump.

This will be the second child for the “Carol” star and Phoenix, 49.

Page Six exclusively reported that Mara was pregnant with her first child in May 2020.

She gave birth to a son, River, in August of that year. The couple named their son after Phoenix’s late brother, River Phoenix, who died of a drug overdose in 1993 at the age of 23.

“River has improved their lives more than they ever imagined and brought them closer,” a source said. Us weekly in May 2021. “They are a very reserved couple and they want River to have a normal and healthy upbringing.”

The couple met on the set of Spike Jonze’s film “Her,” but didn’t start dating until they worked together on another film, “Mary Magdalene.”

The Oscar winner confessed to Vanity Fair in October 2019 that he initially believed Mara “despised” him, but then realized she was interested but too shy to act on it.

“She’s the only girl I looked up on the Internet,” Phoenix explained. “We were just friends, email friends. I had never done that. “I never looked for a girl online.”

In July 2019, the couple got engaged.

Both Mara and Phoenix are long-time vegans and Phoenix even talking about it during his Oscar acceptance speech.

It’s something “The Joker” star hopes River continues.

“Well, I certainly hope (he’s vegan), but I’m not going to impose my belief on my son,” Phoenix told The Sunday Times in June 2021. “I don’t think that’s right. …So I’m not going to perpetuate the lie, but I’m not going to force him to be vegan either. I will support him. That’s my plan”.

A representative for Mara did not respond to Page Six’s request for comment.