Notorious exchange student Amanda Knox announced she’s pregnant with her second child with husband Christopher Robinson, after putting the media through a bit of deception during the birth of her first baby.
Knox made the announcement in a cheeky Instagram post of herself spread out sitting on a park bench with the caption: ‘Pregspreading.’
When asked by a commenter if the photo was a throwback or the sign she was newly pregnant, she responded: ‘New!’
The 36-year-old, who is from Seattle, Washington, and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were both convicted of killing friend and roommate Meredith Kercher, who was murdered in 2007. They were jailed, but eventually released in 2011 and Amanda was acquitted of the crime by the Italian Supreme Court in 2015.
A local man, Rudy Guede, was convicted in a separate trial after his DNA was found on Kercher’s body and in the room where she died, though questions still linger to this day about what happened on that night in 2007, even from Knox herself.
Notorious exchange student Amanda Knox announced she’s pregnant with her second child with husband Christopher Robinson, after putting the media through a bit of deception during the birth of her first baby
Knox has since returned home to the US, got married to Robinson, started a podcast with him and welcomed a child together, daughter Eureka Muse Knox Robinson, after having previously miscarried.
The couple, who were married in 2020 in a time travel-themed wedding, kept Eureka’s birth a secret from the press for three months, until an October 2021 announcement in the New York Times.
She’d even lied to listeners to her podcast by saying that she was still pregnant in a bid to avoid a media scrum.
In an interview on podcast Call Her Daddy, Knox said she is dreading the moment her little girl asks questions about the case.
‘I have thought about [the moment I have to tell my daughter] a lot,’ she told host Alex Cooper. ‘The moment I’m not looking forward to the most is the moment when she first says, “That’s not fair.”‘
Amanda believes that telling her daughter about the case will spark a ‘deep’ understanding about ‘human suffering’ and quickly make her realize that ‘life really isn’t fair’ – a view that she is afraid of trying to explain to Eureka.
‘Because, like, when you reach the point of understanding whether or not something is fair or not, you’ve reached a level of sophistication to understand a level of human suffering, and that can be deep,’ she continued.
The 36-year-old, who is from Seattle, Washington, and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were both convicted of killing friend and roommate Meredith Kercher, who was murdered in 2007. They were jailed, but eventually released in 2011 and Amanda acquitted in 2015
Knox has since returned home to the US, got married to Robinson, started a podcast with him and welcomed a child together , daughter Eureka Muse Knox Robinson
The couple, who were married in 2020 in a time travel-themed wedding, kept Eureka’s birth a secret from the press for three months
Amanda Knox is pictured with her newborn daughter, Eureka Muse. The little girl was born in August 2020, Knox told The New York Times in an interview published months after her birth
‘Life really isn’t fair. Bad things happen to good people for no reason. That existential crisis that life isn’t fair is real and it’s one of the deeper problems that we have as human beings and as a society because we don’t have great answers for that.
‘I’m going to let her guide her own understanding of my case. She’ll ask questions, she’ll want to know.
‘She’s going to know from being around me that there’s something about this justice system that is a little questionable, and when she’s ready, she’ll ask me. And I’m going to be totally honest.’
Over the years, Amanda has continued to maintain her innocence – a sentiment that she echoed during the interview, during which she clearly stated: ‘I didn’t f***ing do it.’
Still, Amanda admitted that she considered not passing on her now-infamous surname to her daughter out of fear that it would forever tie her child to her case and the scandal that surrounded it, particularly when it comes to the public speculation about her sex life and her past romantic partners.
‘I did [consider leaving my last name out of Eureka’s name]. It’s the whole question of like – do I embrace my identity or do I not embrace my identity?’ she said.
‘But here’s nothing wrong me. The world has always acted like there’s something wrong with me and something wrong with my sexuality and that is not my problem.
Knox spent four years in prison in Perugia for the murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, who was found dead in the house they shared in November 2007.
She was convicted in December 2009 and sentenced to 28 and a half years, but was acquitted in 2011 after an appeals court found that legal procedures had not been followed and there was no DNA tying her and then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito to the scene.
Meredith Kercher was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in November 2007 while studying abroad in Perugia, in a case that garnered huge media attention
A local man, Rudy Guede, was convicted in a separate trial after his DNA was found on Kercher’s body and in the room where she died. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2008, but was released in December 2020 and will spend the rest of his sentence doing community work.
Knox was tried again in absentia, convicted again, and then ultimately had the conviction overturned by Italy’s highest court in 2015.
In 2013 Knox wrote a memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, for which she was given an advance of $3.8 million.
But her father Curt, an accountant, said that only around $200,000 of that remained after Knox had paid her legal bills; PR; the three mortgages her mother, father and grandmother took out to fund the fight; and a loan for her younger sister Deanna, who dropped out of college during the battle.
Knox and Robinson currently survive on the podcast, but are pitching a film adaptation of her memoir, a TV project about wrongful conviction, and a new book.
They also are considering, the paper reported, a series of NFTs out of famous tabloid covers with Knox’s face on them.
‘What I keep telling Chris is that I want to get to a place where I don’t have to keep living the worst experience of my life so that we can pay the mortgage,’ Knox said.
‘I keep telling myself if all else fails, I can make cuckoo clocks for a living.’
Robinson, a novelist and poet, is working on a sci-fi novel and a nonfiction book about evolution, the future and psychedelics.
Knox has spent the decade since her release from prison finishing her undergraduate degree, in creative writing, at the University of Washington and then taking a series of low-paying jobs.
She worked in a used-book store and wrote for her local newspaper, initially under a pseudonym.
‘Getting a forward-facing, regular job was complicated by the fact that people would recognize me,’ she said.
Knox also became an advocate for others who said they were wrongfully convicted.
Knox is pictured in June 2019 speaking at the Criminal Justice Festival in Modena, Italy
She spoke publicly about her experience in 2017, at a benefit in Seattle alongside Macklemore and Monica Lewinsky.
In 2019 she returned to Italy for the first time, to speak at a conference organized by the Italian Innocence Project, which did not exist in 2009 when she was on trial.
‘That’s the sort of trap I’m in, where I’m constantly having to be in conversation with something that I would rather not,’ Knox told the paper.
‘I’m constantly told that I should just disappear.’
While in Italy, she wrote to Giuliano Mignini, the prosecutor who secured her conviction.
The pair have been corresponding since, and Knox thinks that her meeting him might make an interesting documentary.
Mignini has retired and is publishing a book on the case next year.
‘I am aware that finding herself far from home, at that age, she must certainly have suffered a lot,’ he told The New York Times.
He acknowledged that she was portrayed ‘as a sort of Circe,’ he said, referring to the witch in Greek mythology who enchants men and turns them into pigs.
Knox and Robinson attend the conference of the Criminal Justice Festival at the University of Modena in June 2019
She said that she struggled to return to her previous existence in Seattle.
At a welcome home party at her aunt’s house, she sat alone, remembered Tom Wright, a family friend.
‘I said to her, ‘Are you OK?” he recalled.
‘And she said, ‘I just want the people not in this room to know I’m innocent.”
Knox said that, at her parents’ home, she packed up bags of her old belongings such as stuffed toys and clothes and gave them all to Goodwill.
‘I’d gotten used to not having so many things,’ she said. ‘I felt totally overwhelmed.’
She still washed her underwear in the sink, and her family urged her to be kind to herself and take things slowly, but she insisted she did not want to ease back into life, and said she had lost four years.
‘You know, we were in survival mode for a while,’ said her mother, Edda Mellas, a teacher, who spent large chunks of time in Italy visiting her daughter in prison.
‘At that point in time, she really couldn’t talk about it at all. She just cried.’
Knox said the Italian court’s decision in March 2013 to retry her had a devastating impact.
‘I felt like I couldn’t even try to have a normal life because I was carrying this shroud over me,’ she said.
‘In part, I was defiant. I felt like there was a deep injustice, so I didn’t change my name, I didn’t change my appearance.
‘But I also felt defeated, like there was nothing I could do about it.’
Knox in a photo posted to Instagram. She said in her podcast that she was bemused by the ‘misdirected focus on my sexuality’
Knox met Robinson shortly after her final acquittal, in 2015, when she interviewed him for her local newspaper.
Robinson said he made a decision not to Google Knox before meeting her.
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