Oscar-winning couple Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are expecting their second child, according to U.S. media reports on Friday.

The New York Post first reported Cruz’s pregnancy, citing unidentified sources. Celebrity magazine Us Weekly and the website of television network E! said sources close to the couple confirmed the news. A source told E! that the “Volver” actress was “around three months” pregnant.

Representatives of Cruz and Bardem did not respond to calls for comment. The Spanish couple, who married in 2010, welcomed their first child, a boy named Leo, in January 2011.

Cruz and Bardem will act together in supporting roles in the upcoming Ridley Scott film “The Counselor,” which is set for a November release.

Cruz, 38, won a best supporting actress Oscar for her role as an impetuous artist in Woody Allen’s 2008 comedy “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” while Bardem, 43, earned a best supporting actor Oscar in the 2007 drama “No Country for Old Men.”

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Penelope Cruz has said that she doesn’t believe in dieting, and instead relies on home cooked meals to keep herself trim.

The Spanish actress married 43-year-old Javier Bardem in 2010 and gave birth to their son Leonardo in January last year.

“I’m a housewife and it’s beautiful, the best thing in the world,” the Daily Express quoted Cruz as saying.

“I know how to cook and it’s important to me to make fresh food every day. I don’t do crazy diets, just the good Mediterranean food that I love because it’s important to eat well,” the 38-year-old added.

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Spanish darling Penélope Cruz may be solidifying with Alec Baldwin’s view of paparazzi.

The “To Rome With Love” actress, who has been making her rounds promoting the Woody Allen film in Los Angeles and in New York, says it infuriates her when paparazzi cross the line. She also claims the press in the United States does not respect the privacy of minors.

Earlier this week, Baldwin had a brief encounter with New York Daily News photographer, Marcus Santos, who attempted to snap photos of him and Latina fiancée Hilaria Thomas.

Santos says Baldwin was “looking mad,” and kept telling the photogs to “step back” before he allegedly “lunged” at him “like a raging bull.”

Entertainment gossip experts EnelBrasero.com is reporting that Cruz said it drives her crazy when paparazzi stalk her loved ones.

“I don’t care when photos of me are taken,” the publication quotes Cruz saying as she promoted her new flick in Beverly Hills, Calif.

“But, when they take photos of my family or when they write about my family… especially when it involves small children, I can’t tolerate it.”

“Here there is no protection,” Cruz continued. “The faces of children can be shown [in the press] and I am against that 100 percent,” she said adding that it “should not be allowed.”

This isn’t the first time the stunning actress made headlines for her disgust with paparazzi snapping photos of her son.

While filming “Venuto al Mondo” in Sarajevoback, Bosnia in September, she had sharp words for a paparazzo, who took a picture of her with her infant son, whom she is trying to shield from the media.

“I know you. You published photos of me with my boy, though the agreement was you wouldn’t do that. You should be ashamed of yourself!” Cruz told the reporter.

Bosnian media reported that the Oscar winner scolded the reporter for having snapped a photo when she was strolling with her husband, actor Javier Bardem, and their son Leo, through Bascarsija, the historical district of the Bosnian capital.

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Penélope Cruz could star with her husband Javier Bardem in the Ridley Scott drama “The Counselor,” The Hollywood Reporter said Thursday.

Cruz and Bardem have already acted together in “Jamon, jamon” (1992), “Carne tremula” (1997) where they shared no scenes and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (2008), a film that earned Cruz, a Madrid native, the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

The project, in which Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt have already agreed to participate, has a script written by Cormac McCarthy, the author of the novel on which “No Country for Old Men” was based, a film for which Bardem won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

The story, like that of “No Country for Old Men,” is set on the U.S.-Mexican border and revolves around a lawyer (Fassbender) who gets involved in drug trafficking with the help of a pair of friends (Bardem and Pitt) to solve his money problems.

Cruz would play the wife of Fassbender’s character. According to the magazine, no formal offer has yet been made to the actress, but several conversations have taken place and it is expected that Cruz will shortly agree to participate.

Work on “The Counselor” is scheduled to begin in late June.

Currently, Bardem is filming alongside Daniel Craig in the latest James Bond flick “Skyfall.”

Photos of the Spanish actor surfaced online, sporting a police uniform and a blond wig in his role as the villain in the movie.

Angelina Jolie, who is now engaged to her long-time love, Brad Pitt, is also rumored to have a part in the film as the female lead — but nothing has been set in stone.

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Penelope Cruz says she will only make one or two films a year now that she is a mother.

The 37-year-old Oscar-winning actress – who is set to appear in Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love – has 14-month-old son Leo with actor husband Javier Bardem.

Penelope told Harper’s Bazaar: “Maybe I’ll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it’s not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.”

The Spanish star said she divides her time between Madrid and Los Angeles, but while she loves Hollywood she does not want to settle there with her family.

“When I come here now, I have so many memories,” she said. “Some of them good, some of them not so good. I have lived beautiful moments here, but I don’t want to live here. It is not the place where I want to raise my kids.”

Penelope described herself as “being happier in my 30s than I was in my 20s”, but added that she considers herself a “worrier”

“I’m living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry,” she said. “But I have always worried about everything; it’s in my nature. It’s the thing that makes me suffer the most.”

Penelope and Javier are currently in London while he films the villain role in the new James Bond film.

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Spanish actress confesses that her idol ‘must think I’m crazy’

Even hot Hollywood stars get starstruck on occasion.

Penelope Cruz, the Spanish beauty who captured American audiences with her turn as Maria Elena in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” tells the May issue of Harper’s Bazaar that she still idolizes Meryl Streep.

“When I first started watching movies and I saw Meryl’s work, that’s when I became obsessed with acting,” she admits to the magazine. “Now I kiss her whenever I see her! She must think I’m crazy.”

Cruz, 37, even recalls once doing a magazine shoot with the “The Devil Wears Prada” actress and being put in the precarious position of posing on top of her.

“As soon as she got to the set, I had to sit topless on top of her,” she says of the AIDS charity (RED) campaign they both starred in. “It was the most interesting love scene I’ve ever done.”

Currently, the brunette stunner is set to star in Woody Allen’s “To Rome With Love” — but fans will have to accept a slower stream of films from the actress in coming years.

Cruz, who is married to actor Javier Bardem, 43, is learning to strike a better balance between work and family.

“Maybe I’ll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it’s not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now,” she said of spending time with the couple’s 1-year-old son, Leonardo.

And as for red-carpet affairs and big Hollywood to-dos, Cruz says she’ll pass if it means spending more time doing what she loves most: “running around with my family at the beach, that’s all.”