Natascha McElhone, the Truman Show star along with Jim Carrey, spotted out for stroll with her totes 7 ½ months old son Rex Coltrane while on the way to meet up with friends for brunch on Sunday in Venice, California.
The Californication actress, talks about life with her three boys, saying that Theo, 8 ½, and Otis, 5 ½, keep little Rex quite amused.
When the time came to deliver son Rex Coltrane, her youngest son, Natascha McElhone did so alone – as she had been the last five months of her pregnancy. “It just felt right somehow,” the 37-year-old actress, who lost husband Martin Kelly to a heart attack in May 2008, tells Hello!. “If Martin couldn’t be there, I couldn’t replace him with someone, as that would have felt very strange.”
‘I wanted to be on my own because that was the way it was going to be. I was going to be my baby’s only parent so I may as well get used to it.’
Mr Kelly collapsed and died on the front doorstep of their London home while she was filming Californication in America.
Cranio-facial surgeon Mr Kelly was credited with helping children across the globe suffering from facial disfigurements through the Facing The World charity.
He had been preparing to fly to America to meet his wife, who was also looking after their two boys.
His death came just four days after the pair’s tenth wedding anniversary and he was about to fly over to see her and celebrate it before her 20 week scan.
She revealed how she reacted to the hammer-blow of being told by a close friend that her husband, one of Britian’s leading plastic surgeons, had died.
Miss McElhone told Hello!: ‘I did that thing I thought people only did in movies – I dropped the phone and my knees sort of buckled under me.’
She added: ‘The only other people who were going to be affected as deeply as me were the children – apart from Martin’s mother, of course – so they were the first people I told, although I don’t think it’s fair for me to talk about their reaction. That’s so much their experience.’
Their son Rex was born on October 16 last year, at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital – where Mr Kelly had carried out much of his work.
Miss McElhone said the newborn ‘dear little head’ is constantly going from ‘side to side’ like he is at a tennis match as he watches his brothers play.
She named the boy Rex Coltrane Kelly as her husband’s hero was jazz musician John Coltrane. He was almost called Coltrane Kelly, she admitted.
The actress said of the two elder sons: ‘They just adore their little brother and are for ever smothering him in kisses, but then that’s how we’ve always communicated – with hugs and kisses.’
She said : ‘I thank God I had two babies with Martin before so I know exactly what his reaction to Rex would be.
‘So I imagine him kissing the back of Rex’s neck and doing all the things he loved doing with the others.
‘I say to the boys, “Daddy used to do this with you guys.” They’ll say, “Let’s do it to Rexy!” and we all pile in and give him hugs.
‘I walked in the park this morning thinking of Martin, as I always do, and wondering: the one thing I miss terribly about him is that he had the answers to everything.
‘I guess what I want to know now is what would his answer be to this – to our loss, to life without him. But I’ll never know.”
