‘Not for her the humble brag’: Margot Robbie keeps it classy after low-key baby news
Margot Robbie and her mother Sarie Kessler attend the premiere of the movie Babylon. Photo: AAP
Unlike some A-lister celebrities who can’t wait to share first-look images of their newborn on social media, Australian actor and producer Margot Robbie, is keeping it classy.
Queensland-born Robbie, 34, was spotted taking a gentle stroll in the Los Angeles suburb of Venice Beach with her husband, Tom Ackerley, 34, and their baby boy on November 5 after two media outlets, the Mail on Sunday and People announced the couple became parents two weeks ago.
In July, it was revealed Robbie, whose career reached mile-high moment last year with Barbie, was expecting her first child before the happy couple were photographed having a pre-baby holiday in Sardinia in late August.
The Mail reported Robbie went into labour two weeks ago, shortly before her due date, and “all is well”.
Silent treatment
No formal confirmation from her management. No simple post-birth baby photo on Instagram. Why has it been kept under wraps?
“Because it can be. She’s not a royal, whose life-long deal means the public owns you and therefore you have to do what they want,” former Who Magazine executive editor and lifestyle columnist Kate Halfpenny told The New Daily.
“Robbie’s job is pretending to be other people. She plays make believe for a living.
“Having a baby has nothing to do with that job and won’t affect her future career viability and how the public views her so she doesn’t need to parade the kid.”
Halfpenny said Robbie is “not a Kardashian who will be planning to monetise her child and use it as part of her brand” and the baby news is hardly being kept a closely guarded secret.
“It’s just not being paraded for public consumption”.
Margot Robbie and husband Tom Ackerley will produce a film adaptation of the popular EA video game The Sims.
‘Not for her the humble brag’
Robbie, who has two brothers and a sister, was raised by single mother, Sarie Kessler, a physiotherapist, in the Gold Coast hinterland of south-east Queensland.
She spent much of her time on her grandparents farm before moving to Melbourne in her late teens to pursue an acting career, starting with a move to Melbourne to pursue an acting career starting with long-running Australian soap opera, Neighbours.
Hollywood beckoned and she rose to fame co-starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, portraying the role of Naomi Lapaglia in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated film, The Wolf of Wall Street.
She married Ackerley – who she met on the Suite Francaise set in 2013 – in Byron Bay in 2016.
Halfpenny stressed Robbie “never showcases her private life on social media”, there’s no red carpet appearances with Ackerley, and certainly no official holiday snaps.
“No doubt she’s taking time off work to work out how to be a mother, something she’ll take very seriously given how close she is to her own mother.
“That’s smart … she makes sure the public doesn’t own her,” adding that “the public love her anyway. She’s gold, so she doesn’t need to sell herself and her family, whether for actual money or to drum up publicity.
“She’s more secure than most stars and more grounded.
“Not for her the humble brag.”
These images were posted by a fan page with one million followers “dedicated” to Margot Robbie. There is no official Instagram account under her name.
‘She already is that poster girl’
Robbie, the Luckychap producer of Barbie, Saltburn, Promising Young Woman and I, Tonya, is having a moment to herself ahead of what looks like a massive work schedule.
She’s in pre-production for Wuthering Heights, in which she stars as Catherine opposite Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff.
She has 13 upcoming projects including a film called Monopoly.
Can Robbie be the poster girl for blending career and family and husband and home life?
“She already is that poster girl … great at keeping her family and career separate,” Halfpenny said.
She won’t be doing any “Beyonce-style” baby shoots, and her beach walk this week is nothing more than catching some fresh air and exercise.
Lots of stars don’t parade their newborns “because they’re classy”.
Nothing to see here, people.
“She’s just a person with a job that means we think we know her. We don’t. And we don’t own her. And she won’t be tacky enough to use the child for any publicity.”