Michelle Williams champions mums and debuts her baby bump at the Golden Globes
If you haven’t been paying attention to celebrity news due to keeping focused on many other serious situations across the globe, then you might be surprised to hear that not only did Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden welcome a baby girl over the festive period, but that Michelle Williams got engaged and is expecting a second bub of her own.
Engaged and expecting
You may be wondering, how this even happened. And who the heck even is this guy?! The guy is Tony Award-winning director Thomas Kail. Thomas has mostly worked in theatre and musicals, with the wildly successful musical Hamilton the most notable feather in his crown.
That is until he directed Michelle in the miniseries Fosse/Verdon, a drama about the relationship between choreographer/director, Bob Fosse and revered Broadway dancer Gwen Verdon.
Michelle won an Emmy — and now a Golden Globe — for her performance as Gwen Verdon, and Thomas won his leading lady’s heart.
The couple are now expecting their first child together. This baby will be the second child for Michelle who is mum to 14-year-old Matilda, her daughter with the late Heath Ledger who died in 2008.
The couple’s engagement and baby news broke late last year, and Michelle debuted her baby bump yesterday on the Golden Globes red carpet where she won Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture made for Television. She used her award acceptance to champion the rights of women and mothers.
Accepting the Golden Globe for Fosse/Verdon, Michelle touched on her own life experience and highlighted the basic human rights that all women should be able to take for granted. Rights which are increasingly under threat, especially in the US.
“I’ve tried my very best to live a life of my own making and not just a series of events that happened to me, but one that I can stand back and look at and recognise my handwriting all over,” Michelle said.
“Sometimes, messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise. But one that I had carved with my own hand, and I wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose. To choose when to have my children and with whom, when I felt supported and able to balance our lives, knowing, as all mothers know, the scales must and will tip towards our children.”
“Now, I know my choices might look different than yours, but thank God, or whomever you pray to, that we live in a country founded on the principle that I am free to live by my faith and you are free to live by yours.”
Urging women to become even more politically aware and engaged, she finished with a call to action which was wildly applauded by the assembled audience.
“So, women 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest. It’s what men have been doing for years, which is why the world looks so much like them, but don’t forget we are the largest voting body in this country. Let’s make it look more like us.”
Here, here, MW. And huge congrats to this family on all their lovely news.