Jessie Buckley confirms she’s welcomed a baby girl as she shares sweet lesson she wants to teach her

Jessie Buckley has proved to be notoriously private about her personal life, but has now confirmed she’s welcomed a baby girl to the world.

The Irish actress sensationally announced her pregnancy at a red carpet event in April, and was later spotted without a baby bump while on the press tour for her new film, Hamnet, suggesting she had welcomed her first child.

Jessie and her husband, whom she refers to as ‘Freddie’, have a happy and healthy daughter, but she has chosen not disclose her name publicly.

Jessie Buckley of “Hamnet” poses in the Getty Images Portrait Studio. Pic: Getty Images

Jessie has not said a lot about being a mother, but during her appearance on the New York Times’ Modern Love podcast, she said that playing a grieving mother in Hamnet brought out a maternal side to her that she hadn’t realised was so strong.

‘I’m not surprised I got pregnant a week after I finished filming because I had coaxed… it was also quite intense to have that need while I was in this place of absolute mother and it not be a real thing yet,’ the Kerry woman said.

Jessie Buckley in Hamnet. Pic: YouTube

‘There [were] moments where it broke my heart because I was living this altered world, where I was absolutely that. Well, just be patient,’ she continued. ‘I think when I was filming Hamnet, I deeply wanted to become a mother myself. 

‘And it was such a gift to move through this woman and her motherhood and her love and her loss before I became a mother myself.

‘And I think even getting pregnant and throughout my pregnancy and how I was thinking about what kind of birth I wanted and how I would be autonomous in choosing that as much as I could was very empowering.’

Jessie shared a sweet lesson that she’s hoping to pass on to her daughter, saying: ‘I think the thing I can hope to impart to her, and I’m sure she’s going to go on her whole own trajectory, and she should, is we have one life.

Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley at the premiere of Hamnet at the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin. Pic: Andres Poveda

‘And we’re always going to be — there’s always going to be things in our life that are going to make us doubt or be afraid or feel like it would be safer to be smaller in some way.

‘And I see this little life that’s so new but so full and so untarnished by an idea or a projection of what we’re supposed to be.’

Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in Hamnet. Pic: YouTube

‘And I just hope that if I can pass anything on to her in the way that my mother has passed on to me is that all the parts of you are not too much,’ she said.

‘The world needs all of you, and that means incubating the struggles, is like living through the struggles, the shadows. The things that are going to challenge you, you have to metabolize it and incubate it. And there’s no too-muchness. It’s only to be lived fully.’ 

Jessie Buckley attends the “Hamnet” screening during the 69th BFI London Film Festival. Pic: WireImage

Speaking about the emotional watch that is Hamnet, in which she stars alongside fellow Irish actor Paul Mescal, on the Graham Norton Show, Jessie said: ‘There have been some beautiful moments in putting it out into the world. 

‘I watched it first when I was eight months pregnant, and I was not okay. It was so embarrassing to cry at my own film, but it was so beautiful.’