At 46, the actress is expecting her second child, the fruit of her love affair with her partner Niels Schneider. "Pregnant at 45...

Having a child at my age has to do with hope. We live in such a bizarre world," said Virginie Efira, already mother of Ali, 10. "How do you expect me to hide it?" she said. "I don't make it a kind of personal publicity, although there," she then blurted out, smiling.