All About Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach's 2 Sons
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The 'Barbie' director recently confirmed that she and Baumbach are now a family of four
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are a family of four.
Gerwig and Baumbach first met when Baumbach cast her to star opposite Ben Stiller in his 2010 film Greenberg, according to a 2013 New Yorker profile, and they've continued to collaborate in films together such as Frances Ha and Mistress America, which they both co-wrote together. They also worked together on the Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
The couple welcomed their first baby together, son Harold, in 2019. During The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in December 2022, the director confirmed that she was pregnant with her second child, and in July 2023, she revealed she and Baumbach quietly welcomed a second son.
Baumbach is also dad to 12-year-old son Rohmer with his ex-wife, actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Though the couple has kept the details of their family mostly private, Gerwig has occasionally shared her view on motherhood in interviews.
Here's everything to know about Gerwig and Baumbach's growing brood.
Harold Ralph Gerwig Baumbach
Gerwig and Baumbach welcomed their first child, son Harold Ralph Gerwig Baumbach, in March 2019. That December, Gerwig gave the first glimpse of her newborn in a feature with Vogue, where she was photographed cradling her son in the grass.
In her interview with the magazine, she revealed that she actually gave birth to Harold 24 hours after turning in her rough cut of Little Women, which she directed and wrote the screenplay for. "I knew that as soon as I did that, some part of me would relax and then the baby would come," she told the publication.
The Vogue feature also revealed that Harold's godparents are Baumbach's brother Nico and sister-in-law Annie Baker.
During an interview with Elle in January 2020, Gerwig opened up about motherhood, joking, "Babies are in a hallucination the whole time and when they make eye contact with you, there's this kind of joy – Oh my God, someone else is in here, too! – and then they go away again into their hallucinatory world. That's pretty interesting to be around." She added of Harold, "He's a good little baby – I could look at his face all day."
In July 2023, Harold helped his mom celebrate the end of the Barbie movie press tour.
"He made a cake for me that was pink and had a ‘B’ on it, and he said, ‘This is how we say goodbye to Barbie,’ ” Gerwig told The New York Times, adding that it was the little boy's way of hinting that he was done hearing about Barbie Land.
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach's second child
Though Gerwig first confirmed she was expecting her second child on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, she actually debuted her baby bump at a screening for Netflix's White Noise in November 2022 (above, with composer Danny Elfman).
"I went to an event recently, and I wore something, and I thought everyone would be so interested that I was having another child, and nobody cared," Gerwig recalled to Fallon. "It didn't get reported on. Turns out nobody's paying attention"
During her appearance on The Tonight Show, she also shared her son Harold's thoughts on becoming a big brother.
"It's hard to know what a 3-year-old makes of things that aren't existent yet in front of him," Gerwig admitted. "He's beautifully sophisticated in some ways and then in other ways, he asks, 'What language do they speak in New Jersey?' "
During an interview with Elle UK published in July 2023, Gerwig confirmed she and Baumbach welcomed their second child, another baby boy, four months ago.
"He’s a little Schmoo," she told the outlet of her newborn son. "I don’t know if you can tell energy from the picture, but that’s very much his energy. He’s a wise little baby."
The Lady Bird director also noted that she hasn't been sleeping well since her little boy arrived.
"The little guy is sleeping through the night. But I'm still doing that thing where I wake up, every hour to 90 minutes, and just hover," she shared. "You just keep wanting to look at that baby. So I'm slightly in a twilight state."
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