Keira Knightley Reveals the Unusual Reason She Doesn’t Want Any More Children — and the TV Character Who Is Behind It

Mar. 15, 2025

Keira Knightley on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’.Photo:Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty

Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty

Keira Knightley’snumber one reason for having no more kids isn’t the pain of childbirth or the endless nights of disrupted sleep.

On Monday, Dec. 9. the actress, 39, gushed about her two daughters while promoting her new Netflix seriesBlack Doves onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonand also revealed why she won’t be jumping to give them a little brother or sister.

“You know that thing where you’re like ‘Oh, you know they’re so nice. Should we have another one?’ ” Knightley said. “And you think, ‘Oh yeah, I could do the pregnancy. I could even do the birth but I cannot watch anymore Peppa Pig.’ So there’s no more kids."

TheLove Actuallyactress shares 9-year-old daughter Edie and 5-year-old daughter Delilah with her musician husbandJames Righton.

Back in 2020,Hasbrorevealed that the animated program was the most-watched on-demand series in the world, while theYouTubechannel dedicated to Peppa’s adventures with her mummy, daddy and little brother George has garnered almost 38 million subscribers.

James Righton and Keira Knightley.Julien M. Hekimian/Getty

Julien M. Hekimian/Getty

However, the 9-year-old — who she said finds her “really embarrassing" — had other thoughts.

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“You know when they’re teenagers, you think ‘Yeah, they’re gonna find me embarrassing.’ But yeah, but 9, right?” Knightley said, before imitating her daughter shunning her from the dance floor at the disco.

“‘Mom, mom you are so embarrassing, just go and stand in the corner,'” Knightley recalled. “It was awful.”

Keira Knightley on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’.Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty

The mom of two welcomed Edie in May 2015 and Delilah in September 2019.

“Encantois really big in our house. I mean, massive,” she said. “Even my 2-year-old can sing ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno,’ so there’s a lot ofEncanto,” she said, referring to Delilah.

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Elsewhere onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Knightley shared how being a mom inspired her to sign up forBlack Dovesbecause she “wanted to kick ass.”

“I’m a mom of two and I’m so child-friendly at home,” she said, with Fallon, 50, noting that she did all her own stunts in the series. “I just wanted to do something that was a bit punk and kind of blew everything up.”

source: people.com