Just last year, Jennifer Lawrence announced her willingness to return to the Hunger Games franchise and says, “If Katniss could ever come back into my life 100 percent.” But right now, she has an even more demanding project on her plate: the impending birth of her second child.

The news came after Lawrence – once the highest-paid female actor in the world – was spotted in Los Angeles on her way to dinner. Her appearance sparked speculation that the 34-year-old may be expecting, with her rep confirming the pregnancy. Fashion on Sunday.

This will be the second child for Jennifer Lawrence and husband Cooke Maroneywho tied the knot on October 19, 2019. (Does that make last night’s dinner an anniversary celebration? Maybe!) Maroney is “the greatest human being I’ve ever met,” Lawrence said the year they married. and he gets better.”

The two welcomed their first child, Cy Maroneyin April 2022. In the years surrounding her first pregnancy, Lawrence took a break from the business, narrating Vanity fair in 2021 that “everyone was tired of me.”

‘I had become sick of myself. It had just gotten to the point where I couldn’t do anything right anymore. When I walked down the red carpet it was, ‘Why didn’t she walk away?’

In recent years, the star has been much more elusive, appearing in fewer films than during her award-studded rise to the top in the 2010s. That retreat began even before she realized she was pregnant with her first child, a revelation she received while she was in New Orleans filming Causewaya 2022 release in which she played a veteran injured during the war in Afghanistan. “It came out of my performance in all these different creative ways, but I wasn’t aware of it,” she told the BBC New York Times in 2022.

“Then I went back, and when I’m home with my husband starting this family, I’m so happy,” she said at the time.

Since then, she has spoken less about her personal life and family. “It’s so scary to talk about motherhood. Just because it’s so different for everyone,” she said Fashion in 2022. “If I say, ‘It was great from the start,’ some people will think, ‘It wasn’t great for me at first,’ and feel bad.”

“My heart has stretched to a capacity I knew nothing about,” she said at the time. “I involve my husband in this. And then they’re both just out there, walking around, crossing streets. One day he will drive. He will be a stupid teenager and behind the wheel of a car. And I just say, ‘Good night!’ You know? Like, who sleeps?”