Pregnant Natalie Portman Gives Emotional Tribute to Fiance
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Natalie Portman got a little verklempt about her husband-to-be on Saturday.
Accepting the Desert Palm Achievement Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, the tight-lipped pregnant star couldn't help gushing about Benjamin Millepied, the dancer/choreographer whom she met while making Black Swan.
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As Frenchman Millepied, 33, looked on from the audience, Portman, 29, got teary-eyed as she thanked her fiance who "partnered me in the movie and who now partners me in life."
About three months along with Millepied's child, Portman concealed her baby bump with a Vionnet dress and proudly wore her stunning engagement ring -- UsMagazine.com revealed the first pics on Friday -- as she accepted her trophy.
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A source tells the new Us Weekly that "it was seductive to watch" Portman and Millepied (who plays a male ballet dancer in Black Swan) fall in love on the film's set. "There was no way the attraction could be missed," the insider adds.
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"She likes artsy, smart guys and he's an artsy, smart guy," another pal notes of Millepied, one of the youngest choreographers at the prestigious New York City Ballet.
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4Natalie Portman is a brilliant, beautiful and talented actor. I do not think she would go on hormones.Her Fiance' is gorgeous and talented as she is and can you say you graduated from Harvard? I didn't think so, she has it all!!! I thought she was great in Black Swan and didn't go nuts making a dark thriller like some actors who do and then kill themselves over it, not her, she has to much class to do something like killing herself over a dark role and I believe you all know who I am talking about. Get mad I don't care, but it is the truth. It's a role people, why can't some actors do their roles and then kill themselves because of it and hopefully you know who I am writing about. She is top shelf
I saw her give her acceptance speech on E News and of course US Weekly is exaggerating the truth. She wasn't a blubbering and crying. She just got teary-eyed. Actually it was sweet.
I'd probably chalk that one up to the hormones than anything else. And if she is only 3 months along, I doubt she really has to try hard to hide her baby bump.
A little restraint might have been wiser. Look what happened when Sandra Bullock gushed about her husband.