Natalie Portman reunites with husband Benjamin Millepied for family lunch with kids after breaking silence on affair rumors (but her wedding ring is still off)

Natalie Portman was pictured with her husband Benjamin Millepied and their two children in Los Angeles on Thursday after condemning the attention surrounding her marital problems in the latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

The Academy Award-winning actress, 42, and Millepied, 46, were pictured with their two children, son Aleph, 12, and daughter Amalia, six, during a lunch outing in Southern California.

The Jerusalem, Israel-born actress appeared to be in a cheerful mood during the day, as she smiled while looking at her phone at one point during the trek with her family.

The Black Swan actress wore a tie-dye mushroom print cropped sweatshirt from Rodarte, blue jeans and black sunglasses, but didn’t appear to be putting on her wedding ring. During the outing, she carried a floral patterned handbag.

Millepied wore a black T-shirt with sunglasses and blue jeans, with a beard, during the outing.

On Wednesday, the May December actress made light of the breakup in the 30th annual Hollywood issue of Vanity Fair magazine where she posed with Bradley Cooper, Pedro Pascal and Colman Domingo.

When asked how she felt about her marriage being written about, she said it was “terrible.”

“It’s horrible, and I don’t feel like contributing to it,” she told writer Keziah Weir candidly, who responded that it wasn’t much fun having to ask the question.

Natalie and Benjamin married in 2012 after meeting on the set of Black Swan.

Portman has yet to make any public comment about her divorce from her husband after it was alleged he cheated on her with another woman.

In a January WSJ interview, she talked about life in Paris with her two children but made no mention of Benjamin, which was the biggest hint yet that they are no longer living together.

The Thor: Love and Thunder actress also said in her Vanity Fair interview that she has been careful to protect her privacy.

“I was very protective of it from very early on. I chose a different name when I started, which was an interesting way to separate identities,” she said; her first film was 1994’s The Professional.

‘I would be angry if someone at school called me Natalie Portman. “I was like, ‘If you know me, you know me as Natalie Hershlag in school,'” she admitted, making it sound like she was having trouble balancing fame and real life.

‘It was a kind of extreme dichotomy of identity that I tried to integrate a little more as an adult.

‘I felt like I wasn’t accepting that both were part of me, that there wasn’t a ‘real’ me and a ‘make-believe me’, and that they didn’t necessarily have different names.

“And it’s not just two different versions, there are countless ways that other people see me, both publicly and privately, and there are countless ways that I see myself.

“Somehow the intersections of all these things are part of me, and it’s important to have them all inside me and because, instead of thinking this is something external, it’s the real deal. ‘

But it changed.

‘When I had children and a family, I started to realize that it might not be useful to say: there are two of me. I have a lot of interactions during my day as a public person. Excluding that from my experience is not realistic,” she noted.

Natalie now lives in Paris and said that living part-time in Los Angeles isn’t that bad for her because of the choices she’s made.

“I live a very non-Hollywood life in LA. I live on the east side. “I have some friends who are in the entertainment industry, but a lot of friends who aren’t, and we don’t do industry stuff when we hang out,” she began.

‘We don’t go to Hollywood parties, we eat at home in the backyard.

“I actually found that living there made my experience of LA much less ‘Hollywood.’

“When I would visit, it was just for work, and I would stay somewhere in Beverly Hills, and I would have industry meetings and go to industry parties.

“Living there made my experience much more complete and gave me a greater appreciation for everything the city has to offer, from nature to art, food to music and of course the people,” she said.

She also talked about a new project.

“One thing I wanted to do, and was really struggling with, was an animated film, and I just made my first one — or I’m still working on it, because it’s a years-long process.”

When asked what it was, she replied: ‘I’m doing The Twits – Roald Dahl. Very exciting.’

And she said she likes to make films with her children in mind.

‘I like animation. And because I have children, I always want to make things for them to see. I see in my children that they watch them again and again and again in a way that I don’t think any other film is watched so intensely and therefore has such an impact on children’s view of the world and life. You realize how meaningful they are – and how meaningful they can be.”

And she hopes to sing.

“One thing I still have and haven’t done is a musical. I would really love that. When I think about what made me most excited, happy and joyful as a child, I took a lot of dance classes in the form of musical theater, and those were my happiest moments. I dreamed of being a dancer in a Broadway show. So if I were to do that again, I think it would be a return to that joy.”

One of her toughest roles came early in her life.

“When I was 16 years old, I played Anne Frank on Broadway, and that is so packed with meaning and symbolism and larger implications. Even the central role of Anne Frank in what we teach children, what we teach Jewish children, is so charged and controversial. And I was very young. I think I had an idea of ​​it, but it wasn’t until later, when there was commentary around it, that I realized how much symbolism it contained and that it was much bigger than just me and thought, what was this girl like?’