Elsa Pataky shows off her big third-trimester bump in Santa Monica: lovely?

I think you guys need to make a new nickname for Elsa Pataky. She’s changed, y’all. These are some new pics of Elsa out and about in Santa Monica over the weekend. She was shopping with a friend (who looks like a grown-up Lorde). Elsa is BIG. She’s super-pregnant. She’s well into her third trimester by the look of it. Which brings me back to my original point: she is no longer a “Remora” clinging to whatever secondary fame she can get from Chris Hemsworth. Elsa is playing a different game these days. She’s managed to breeze along to her third trimester with very few photo-ops or red carpet appearances. We’ve barely seen her out with Chris or India Rose the past four or five months. She’s gone quiet. She’s showing us that she’s capable of going quiet.

So if people can’t slam her for clinging to Chris and trying to become a star in his wake, what will people say? I have no idea. I like her more now that I don’t see her every week in photo-ops. I also think she’s a beautiful pregnant woman. She’s just glowing and she’s so pretty. I love that sweater so much too.

I think Chris has finished filming In The Heart of the Sea, so I guess he and Elsa are back home in California and they’ll probably welcome their baby in LA. Didn’t she give birth to India in England? Yes, Elsa scheduled the birth around Chris’s promotional tour for The Avengers. So this baby will be an American – that’s nice. And Chris recently said that he was planning on taking some time off: “I’ve been working solidly for a couple of years now, to the point where I have to slow down and spend some time with my family.” Also nice. I hope he does take off some time and he and Elsa just focus on their kids. And then he’ll probably go back to work on The Avengers: Age of Ultron? I think that’s his next project.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

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