A FILM director who became engaged to a teenage actor, 23 years her junior, is pregnant to him.

Sam Taylor-Wood, 42, who has two children from her previous marriage, is expecting 19-year-old Aaron Johnson's baby.



"We can confirm that Sam is pregnant with her and Aaron's first child. Both are very, very happy," a spokesman for the couple told the Daily Mail newspaper in the UK.



Johnson plays John Lennon in Miss Taylor-Wood's film Nowhere Boy. They fell in love during filming and were engaged in October.



Taylor-Wood, a successful artist, already has two daughters - Angelica, 12, and three-year-old Jessie - from her marriage to London art dealer Jay Jopling. They split up in September 2008, and Jopling was later seen with singer Lily Allen.



It emerged last May that Taylor-Wood and Johnson had begun a relationship during the filming of Nowhere Boy in Liverpool.



Taylor-Wood has told how she felt she and Mr Johnson "had quite a psychic link".



She has also dismissed the large age gap between the pair, saying: "I've always lived my life as fearlessly as possible. I don't really listen to other people's opinions, just follow my heart and my instincts."



Johnson, who won his first film role when he was 12, has also dismissed concerns over the age gap. "To be honest, I've never really lived by the rule book. We just have a huge connection and we talk through a load of things. We just enjoy life and what's around us now," he said.



Originally published as Director having teenage star's baby