Joy for Aussie actor after devastating miscarriage

Australian actor Teresa Palmer has some major personal news to share after suffering a devastating miscarriage.

And they are soon to be a family of eight.

Actor Teresa Palmer is set to become a mother to her fifth child almost a year after a devastating miscarriage.

“Our family is expanding,” Palmer wrote on Instagram as she shared the happy news.

“Overwhelmed with gratitude to be welcoming another little one into our lives. Feels like a dream.”

Aussie actress Theresa Palmer has announced that she is pregnant with her fifth child. Picture: Instagram

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 opened up about suffering an early pregnancy lost, the first being in 2015.

“Honoured and grateful to have been able to carry this little soul, my fifth baby, in my heart and body for the past three months,” she wrote.

Theresa Palmer has announces she is pregnant. Picture: Instagram

It will be her fifth child. Picture: Instagram

“Sometimes in life things happen that we just don’t understand. Brimming with gratitude for my people who have held me close during this time. To anyone who knows the pain of pregnancy loss, sending you immense love.”

In 2022, Palmer told spoke of her desire to have more children, possibly twins.

“I would like to have a few more,” Palmer told Confidential at the time.

“But I haven’t told my agents that. They keep saying, ‘you’re finished aren’t you?’

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

“On our first date, I told Mark I wanted six (children) and he said he also wanted six, so I am holding him to that number.

“Twins run in the family so you never know, I might get two for one next time.”

Mix Tape cast (left to right) – Teresa Palmer, Jim Sturgess, Rory Walton-Smith and Florence Hunt.

On the professional front, Palmer has a busy time ahead.

She has back-to-back projects set to air on BINGE Original over the coming months with the premiere for The Last Anniversary to be held at Sydney’s The State Theatre on Monday and the series to premiere on Thursday.

Palmer plays the lead role of Sophie in the series based on Liane Moriarty’s book of the same name.

She will also be seen in Mix Tape, alongside Jim Sturgess and Florence Hunt, which will premiere on Binge later in the year and won the audience choice award at South by Southwest in the US after its world premiere.

Originally published as Joy for Aussie actor after devastating miscarriage