British-American actress Minnie Driver marks Independence Day with sweet pregnancy throwback snaps

Daily Mail​

04-07-2025

Minnie Driver marked Independence Day on Friday with a series of patriotic throwback snaps.
The British-American actress, 55, notably began the montage with a snap of herself pregnant and her bump painted in the stars and stripes.
Celebrating America's love of fast food on another 4th of July gone by, Minnie - who shares son Henry, 16, with ex-partner producer Timothy J. Lea - revealed that she even made a sweet cake in the shape of a burger.
Other snaps saw her in a stars and stripes golf buggy and with Henry as he held a first-place medal won in a watermelon seed spitting competition.
She wrote: 'Celebrating the spirit of independence - from pregnant belly decorations, to our annual golf cart parade in Malibu, to the cake I made in the shape of a burger, to Henry winning the watermelon seed spittin' competition.
'To me standing eating watermelon rather than spitting the seeds, to my old, patriotic boy who loved this day, mainly because people were drunk and dropped their hotdogs.'
Minnie's reflective post comes after she recently joked about getting a facelift after candidly opening up about being middle-aged in Hollywood.
'Guys,' she said in a perfect deadpan in a new video she posted to her Instagram page in December: 'are we all getting new faces for Christmas?'
The Good Will Hunting actress continued: 'Cause where you getting them from? And do you think they're gonna run out? And has anyone got a discount code?'
She threw another joke into the caption, writing: 'Quite hard to put under the tree. #newface #faceshop #discountcodes.'
Shortly before, the actress shared a makeup-free selfie to her Instagram page.
Allowing the camera to get a close view of her features, she used the caption to share the secret to her own luminous complexion.
Her radiant appearance was the work of Keren Bartov, an Israeli aesthetician whose clients have included Gal Gadot, Demi Moore, Kim Kardashian and Julia Roberts.
Minnie wrote alongside the selfie: 'Ok, I'm pretty vain, so posting pictures without a scrap of makeup and un-touched up, are rare.'
She added: 'The only reason I'm doing it now is because I've been ill with flu and have felt every one of my years recently, and I'm pretty astonished that my friend Keren can make me look like this: Christmas glow without the 5 mulled wines.'
Earlier this year, Minnie reflected on how the Hollywood climate has changed in terms of offering opportunities to women in middle age.
'We're allowed to be over 40 now. It is different,' she told People during a panel discussion that was held over the summer.
'I don't know what that was done waking up to the idea that women are really just hitting their stride when they've, I think been through the gauntlet of only being seen sexually,' the The Phantom Of The Opera actress shared.
Now, she said, roles for women are able to embrace the 'extraordinary expansiveness that comes with getting older,' including but not limited to motherhood. 'I watched a film the other night that I really wanted to be in and I am so glad I'm not in that bloody film,' Minnie candidly confessed.