Charlene McKenna has revealed that she secretly welcomed her first child with her husband Adam Rothenberg.
The Peaky Blinders star, 40, shared that she gave birth to a daughter named Martha Josephine in March.
Share the news during a In an interview with Kay Sheehy on RTE Radio 1, Charlene said she was busy with “a new production” and “a beautiful production” of her own.
She said: “I think it’s an incredibly special, moving and beautiful production, if I may say so.”
During the interview, Charlene offered some insights into her life as a new mother with her husband Adam, whom she married in 2021.
Charlene McKenna has revealed that she secretly welcomed her first child with her husband Adam Rothenberg.
The Peaky Blinders star shared that she gave birth to a daughter named Martha Josephine in March.
‘I had a little baby, so I’ve been on the sidelines for a long time. I’ve just been in nesting mode and enjoying my little girl. She’s just very special,’ she added.
Charlene, who played Laura McKee in the fifth and sixth series of Peaky Blinders, previously admitted she still lives with the “existential terror” of her acting work coming to an end.
She told The Sun: ‘I still live with existential terror and fear it will go away. And everyone says to me, ‘Are you taking time off?’ and I take some time and tell them: ‘But don’t go.’
“You feel nervous taking time off because you’re like, ‘Is this what it’s going to be like then?’ You’re like, ‘I just wanted a few weeks, guys,’ and it’s a year later.
‘What’s the saying? You don’t retire, the industry retires you.’
The news comes as fellow Peaky Blinders star Sophie Rundle also revealed on Sunday that she had given birth to her second child, a baby boy.
Sophie shared a series of photos with her newborn as she gushed that she was “riding this heavenly wave of perfect love.”
“He’s here. I’m fully prepared and waiting to plummet off the hormonal cliff at any moment, but for now I’m riding this heavenly wave of perfect love,” she told her followers.
Charlene, who played Laura McKee in series five and six of Peaky Blinders (pictured), previously said she still lives with the “existential terror” of her acting work drying up.
The news comes as fellow Peaky Blinders star Sophie Rundle also revealed on Sunday that she had given birth to her second child, a baby boy.
The Peaky Blinders star shared a series of photos with her newborn as she said she was “riding this heavenly wave of perfect love.”
‘He’s here. I’m completely ready and I expect to plummet over the edge of the hormonal cliff at any moment, but for now I’m riding this heavenly wave of perfect love,’ she told her followers.
‘I just want to stay in this bed, nursing my happy, exhausted bones, smelling his delicious head, and grandly announcing that he’s wearing an archive look from the 2021 collection every time I put him in one of his brother’s old onesies.’
(Maybe I’m a little delusional at this point.) Oh wow, love, love, love.
She added a ‘special thanks to the amazing team at @stroudmaternity for getting him here so safe and sound and for looking after us so expertly, we are so grateful.’
The actress, 35, previously confirmed she was expecting her second child during an appearance on The One Show in January, before sharing photos of her baby bump in April.
She captioned the April Instagram photo: ‘Firmly in my Mama Cass trimester’ as fans rushed to congratulate the star.
Meanwhile, Sophie also took to her Instagram Story to write: “Big baby number two is coming. It’s a cute thing.”
The mother-to-be, who already shares three-year-old son Henry with her husband, confessed she had forgotten whether the public knew she was pregnant.
She explained: “I forgot who I have and haven’t told them right now because I’ve been busy trying to remember what a waistband is and stopping my three-year-old from using my belly as a trampoline, but… big baby number two is incoming. Isn’t that a nice thing?
Sophie played very pregnant PC Joanna Marshall in her thriller After The Flood, which aired in January.
The actress previously confirmed she was expecting her second child during an appearance on The One Show in January, before sharing photos of her baby bump in April.
She captioned the April Instagram snap: “Firmly in my Mama Cass trimester” as fans rushed to congratulate the star.
She starred alongside her real-life husband, who played PC Marshall’s police husband Pat Holman, in the show, and it seems the fake pregnancy and the real one almost overlapped.
During an appearance on The One Show: “I’m pregnant in real life now. So this is starting to feel like the longest pregnancy a human woman has ever had.”
Sophie revealed that wearing the fake bump almost put her off having another child, adding: ‘I wasn’t pregnant then, I had a big fake bump and I think I got a bit put off when I had the fake bump, so I’d been through enough. I’ve gone through it and now I’m going for more.’
The mother-to-be, who already shares a three-year-old son with her husband, confessed she had forgotten whether the public knew she was pregnant.
Sophie also opened up about her pregnancy cravings, confessing that she has been enjoying spicy pizza sauce throughout her second pregnancy.
Sophie played heavily pregnant PC Joanna Marshall in her thriller After The Flood, which aired in January as she joked during an appearance on The One Show: “I’m pregnant in real life now.” “So this is starting to feel like the longest pregnancy a human woman has ever endured.”
She starred alongside her real-life husband, who played PC Marshall’s police husband Pat Holman (pictured), in the show.
The mother-to-be already shares her three-year-old son Henry with her husband Matt.
Sophie opened up about her pregnancy cravings and confessed that she has been consuming spicy pizza sauce during her second pregnancy.
She wrote on Instagram: ‘Finally, shout out to @tubbytoms who, when I asked for more spicy pizza sauce, absolutely understood the needs of a very pregnant woman and sent me these GEMS. A hero and an artist’.
Sophie found fame as Agent Kirsten McAskill in Happy Valley, but met an extremely gruesome end at the hands of psychopath Tommy Lee Royce.
She then played Ada Shelby in the hit BBC series Peaky Blinders and returned to film the final series just four weeks after giving birth to her first child, Henry.
Sophie admitted at the time: ‘It was very intense and absolutely mental. But it was the final season and it felt very important to finish it.’
She said motherhood has made her tougher, adding: “I don’t feel intimidated by an older man in a position of power, because I am the mother of this little boy.” I much prefer who I am now.
