Russell Brand’s marriage to Laura Gallacher with two kids and baby on way

Russell Brand and wife Laura Gallacher are expecting their third child together (Image: Getty) Russell Brand recently announced that he is expecting his third child with wife Laura Gallacher. The pair have kept their romance largely out of the public eye, shunning most of the heady celebrity scene to focus on family life in the countryside. The couple, who first dated in 2015 after being introduced by mutual friends, are believed to be welcoming baby number three within the next couple months.    But just who is Laura and how has the couple managed to balance their “simple” and quiet family life with the comedian’s controversial, high profile public image. The pair, who first dated in 2015 wed in 2017 in an intimate church ceremony near their home in Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, 10 years after they first met.  The pair (pictured in 2017) already have two young children (Image: Getty) They actually briefly dated before Russell’s high-profile marriage to US pop star Katy Perry.  ‘We met when she was 19 and I was 30. She fully loves me for what I am,’ Russell previously told Stylist magazine . ‘She’s not interested in the famous person at all.’ He also told The Wendy Williams show: ‘We went out with each other, we loved each other very much, but I was [in a phase where] I thought the world was an amusement park made out of orgasms.’ Laura, who was an art student when they met, told You magazine of the early romance: ‘I really fell in love. I’d never experienced love like that before.’  Laura, who is the younger sister of TV presenter Kirsty Gallacher recently said on the podcast, Made by Mammas: “I hadn’t seen Russell for years. He was so different. We both immediately knew it was going to be serious.’ Russell and Katy Perry married in 2010 and divorced 14 months later (Image: Getty) She also revealed that they had to “rebuild” their connection when they reunited. ‘You have to rebuild your foundations and trust again, we did it the right way,” said Laura, who spent her childhood in Surrey, and lived on the exclusive private Wentworth Estate. “It was very slow, it was getting to know each other and going out on day trips together.’ ‘I remember him saying, ‘I think I want a quiet life and a family,’ and it was exactly what I wanted. So, then it was about seeing if we could build a foundation to make that happen,” she previously told Grazia about when the pair rekindled their romance in 2015. They now share two children, daughter, Mabel, born in 2016 and daughter, Peggy, who they welcomed two years later and are set to expand their family. In June, Russell revealed that they were expecting baby number three while appearing on the podcast The Diary of a CEO during which he said about fatherhood: “It’s taught me there is a lot more important in this world than me.” While they have been private when it comes to their children, the comedian also told TV show Today after the birth of his first daughter: ‘I love being a new father. She’s so beautiful and so glorious and so full of joy and love.”  Russell previously said of Laura, who is an author and illustrator who has published several bestselling books: ‘I feel sometimes like a refugee in my house with this woman, this calm, beautiful woman, who in the most beautiful way possible doesn’t care about what I do.’ He added to The Guardian : ‘She’s not interested, in the most delightful way.’