Sophie Turner admits she hid her first pregnancy from her ex-husband Joe Jonas and sought therapy after discovering she was pregnant while on holiday in Bali.
The former Game of Thrones actress had just arrived at a retreat on the Indonesian island when a pregnancy test confirmed she was pregnant with her first child.
Just 23 years old and dealing with the double pressures of overnight fame and the intense attention placed on her relationship with a mainstream pop star, Turner, now 28 and a mother of two, says she was initially undecided about what she wanted. do.
Recalling his arrival at the Balinese retreat in 2019, he told the June edition of British Vogue: ‘It was my first day there and I met my roommate for the first time.
‘Before we sat down to chat, I told him I just needed to go and take a pregnancy test. I took the test and said, “I’m pregnant, it’s nice to meet you!”‘
Sophie Turner admits she hid her first pregnancy from her ex-husband Joe Jonas and sought therapy after discovering she was pregnant while on holiday in Bali.
The former Game of Thrones actress had just arrived at a retreat on the Indonesian island when a pregnancy test confirmed she was pregnant with her first child (pictured in Miami).
The June issue of British Vogue will be available via digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday 21 May.
Despite being miles from home and away from Jonas, Turner admits she was lucky to be where she was as she considered her future.
“Maybe because I was so young, I sat there for a week,” he said. ‘Luckily, there were therapists there to help me talk through things. I told my husband when I got back.
Recalling the moment she told Jonas, 34, about her pregnancy, she added: “I remember throwing the pregnancy test at him and saying, ‘What do you think we should do?’ Do you think we should do it?”
‘When you’re in your early 20s, life is very frivolous. At that moment I didn’t really know if I wanted to be a mother, but something changed in me that day. I just knew I had to have it.
The couple subsequently welcomed their first daughter, Willa, now three years old, in July 2020.
Willa’s younger sister Delphine arrived shortly after and Turner gave birth to her second child in July 2022.
The actress says she ‘threw’ her pregnancy test at Jonas after returning from Bali and asked if they should keep it because she wasn’t sure she wanted to be a mother.
The couple subsequently welcomed their first daughter, Willa, now three, in July 2020 (the former couple is seen at the Met Gala in May 2022 during her pregnancy with their second daughter, Delphine).
“Because my ex and I travel a lot, I wanted Willa to have a brother,” he explained. He wanted them to have each other.
“They are very fun girls, totally feminine and absolute rays of sunshine in my life.”
The British actress, who played Sansa Stark in the hit HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, and Jonas confirmed the end of their four-year marriage in September.
She reflected on the period after they released a joint statement saying the split was “amicable” and asking for “privacy for us and our children.”
Speaking to British Vogue about tabloid articles speculating she and Jonas had different lifestyles, she said: “Those were the worst days of my life.
‘I remember I was on set, they booked me to be on set for another two weeks, so I couldn’t leave. My children were in America and I couldn’t get to them because I had to finish (the ITV show) Joan. And all these articles started coming out…’
She added: “It hurt me because I really completely torture myself with every move I make as a mother; mom guilt is very real.”
“I kept having to tell myself, ‘None of this is true.’ You’re a good mom and you’ve never been a party animal.”
The June issue of British Vogue is available via digital download and on newsstands starting Tuesday, May 21.