While Rachel McAdams is a savant at keeping a low profile, she does share a few details about her personal life now and then. In 2009, she told People that she was keen on having kids of her own. “Having a few [kids] would be great,” she shared, noting she was “looking forward to it someday.”
That someday came in April 2018 when she welcomed her first child with Jamie Linden, a baby boy, per Entertainment Tonight. She never made any birth announcements and didn’t share his name, but she did tell The Sunday Times months later that having a kid was the “greatest thing that’s ever happened to me, hands-down.” The “Mean Girls” actor also shared that even though she was 39 when she had her first kid, the timing felt perfect. “I waited a long time [for motherhood]. It’s just how it happened. And I didn’t want to do it before it was the right time,” she said. And when asked why she’s careful about sharing her kids with the world, McAdams had a direct answer: “I want to keep his life private, even if mine isn’t.”
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She ended up welcoming a daughter in late 2020, per E! News. But don’t expect McAdams to share her name or photos, not only because she wants to remain private, but because she’s admittedly not social media savvy, either. “I don’t even quite know how it works,” she noted. “I’m not a great self-promoter, I wasn’t good at selling Girl Guide cookies or Christmas wrapping paper.”
