‘Wobbly’ few weeks leads to celebration for Aussie actor after devastating miscarriage

The Last Anniversary’s Teresa Palmer has spoken about the joy of becoming pregnant with her fifth child after suffering a miscarriage last year.

Teresa Palmer is finally able to enjoy her pregnancy after a few nervous months.

Speaking for the first time since announcing she is pregnant with her fifth child, Palmer told Confidential she was “so sick” during the first trimester.

“I had a loss (miscarriage) last year so I think for me, the wobbly weeks of just getting past that point was nerve racking until I had the results back that everything was healthy and then it felt really real, like I could celebrate it,” Palmer said ahead of the world premiere of The Last Anniversary at Sydney’s State Theatre on Monday night.

Pictured at The State Theatre in Sydney is actor Teresa Palmer ahead of the premiere of the Binge original series The Last Anniversary. Picture: Richard Dobson

“I feel great, I’ve never been pregnant at 39 before. I’m now officially a geriatric, but I feel really good.

“The first trimester is always, like, wobbly because you’re so sick and I was shooting (Russell Crowe film) Bear Country, so I was working throughout my first trimester, and I was a bit seedy but I hit 14 weeks and then just felt amazing and suddenly had all this energy.”

Palmer, 39, and her American actor husband Mark Webber have four children together – Bodhi, Forest, Poet and Prairie — and she is stepmother to his son, Isaac, from a previous relationship.

Just 10 months ago, the Hacksaw Ridge star revealed on social media that she had suffered a miscarriage three months into her last pregnancy.

It was the second time she had spoken of suffering an early pregnancy lost, the first being in 2015.

“We wanted to have more kids,” she said, indicating that six has always been the number she envisioned.

“It was a Christmas baby, so we were surprised about that. We were like, what? How did that happen? It is amazing, we are so happy. The kids are very stoked. Everyone’s excited … just happy to have a healthy baby.”

Teresa Palmer is expecting her fifth child with husband Mark Webber. Picture: Instagram.

The Last Anniversary, released Thursday and BINGE and also available on Foxtel, is set on fictional Scribbly Gum Island and tells a story about “family, motherhood and the women who define the generations that come after them”.

John Polson is at the helm as director and the likes of multiple Academy Award nominee Miranda Richardson, Danielle Macdonald, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Susan Prior, Uli Latukefu and Claude Scott-Mitchell are in the cast.

The team behind Nine Perfect Strangers and Big Little Lies, Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films and Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories have produced the much-anticipated series.

Shot in Sydney and the Hawkesbury River, it is the first time one of Moriarty’s books has been adapted with Australian voices.

Palmer plays 39-year-old Sophie in the series, a single woman who is at a “low point in her life, feeling lost”.

“I actually said yes before I read the script because of everyone involved and to be here now, just over a year later with everyone and celebrating is just such a joy.”

Teresa Palmer and castmates including Miranda Richardson, Danielle Macdonald, Uli Latukefu, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor and Charlie Garber in The Last Anniversary.

While she is preparing to spend more time at home in Byron Bay with her family during the pregnancy, her absence from the big and small screens will not be felt as she has filmed back-to-back projects over the past few years.

“I’ve been working non-stop, it has been pretty wild but it’s worked out pretty well so I’m glad it has been a busy two years,” she said.

“The tandem dreams, I get to do everything I’ve always wanted in terms of being a mother and having a big family and getting to really show up and be present as a mother with them is the most important thing in my life. But the fact that I still get to live out my dreams and have a career that I’m excited about and get to work with inspiring people, I still feel so much deep gratitude for that, and I enjoy every moment that I’m on set.

“It hasn’t been lost on me just how lucky I am and that I get to have both of these wonderful things in my life and to do both of them to the full extent. So I feel very, very happy and grateful.”