What bothers you the most? That Sienna Miller is pregnant with her second daughter at 41 or that the father is actor Oli Green, 14 years her junior? The question could be closed here with the formula of complete acquittal: the fact does not exist. Unfortunately not, however. Because when you're an actress, an icon, an influencer, before there were influencers, everything you do ends up under the microscope, and this time the controversy isn't about the new look or the gossip about a new flirt, but a question that ultimately impacts all women and, more generally, the world in which we live.
Unfortunately, this fact is true, as the usual haters have defined the actress as “irresponsible” and the child to be born as a “poor thing”. Sienna has very clear ideas about this and showed off her baby bump on the red carpet in a white Schiaparelli dress and then was photographed heavily pregnant (she is 31 weeks pregnant) on a provocative cover of Vogue, accompanied by a long interview that lasts a month and includes various meetings and lunches between London and New York. Sienna Miller's thoughts are summarized in this statement: “I believe that people are becoming more comfortable with a way of life that has existed for many years but is misogynistic and patriarchal.” There is criticism that she is a woman who is in a relationship with a younger man or that she became pregnant at 40. There are double standards, but I don't think people even think about it. It's all very banal. She couldn't have said it better and so belly showing, a new hot partner and pregnancy at 41 are a claim to freedom, you could say to the banality of normality, considering that, among other things, she got pregnant by chance (at least that's what she says that and there's no reason not to believe her. Still, some people don't like it. There are men, famous or not, who procreate at unlikely ages and date women who could be their daughters and sometimes grandchildren, but this is no cause for dismay because it has always been observed. But if a woman does it, then it is not good. Certain stereotypes are the hardest to shatter, and the criticism is rooted in prejudices, the definition of which is considered a 19th century one would be an understatement.
Sienna already has a daughter, Marlowe, 11, with her ex-partner Tom Sturridge (“now my best friend”) and in the long interview with Vogue she says that she met Oli Green at a Halloween party and that he He had to insist on convincing her to go out with him. The first kiss, then taking Covid together and being locked in an apartment under quarantine for a week, then love. Hence the decision to leave New York and return to London, where they were temporarily taken in by his parents while they looked for a home for their family in West London. Nothing more normal? In the story, yes, punctuated by episodes in the kitchen where the actress chops carrots and onions and puts the chicken in the oven for dinner. But Sienna Miller's normality consists of something else: paparazzi lurking everywhere, hostile tabloid headlines and the awareness that age is still an issue. “When he turned 27 I breathed a sigh of relief, at least they couldn’t say I was dating a 26-year-old,” she jokes. And then she says seriously: “I want to get to the point where I no longer feel the need to make jokes about getting old and having a child to show that I'm being ironic.” And she knows exactly that age is always a trap for women: In 2023, it seems that women still have to behave “age-appropriately,” whatever that means, she says. “I imagine it can be difficult for people to understand, but between us there is only joy and love. I don't think we can legislate on matters of the heart. I've certainly never been able to do that.
So welcome the beautiful smile of this free woman who, like Colette, has broken the last taboo by dating a much younger man. Who has an Instagram account with 1.3 million followers but has only posted one photo of herself wearing a white T-shirt that says “We should all be feminists.” Vogue tells us that he has just read Madeline Miller's Circe, the bestseller in which Ulysses is only a “supporting character” and more than halfway through the book. There are several ways to rewrite history, and Sienna adds her own very personal and perhaps unconscious chapter that could make all women's lives a little easier.