Keira Knightley, 30, spent the first 3 months of motherhood quietly cloistered with her daughter, but now she has opened up to Elle about motherhood, her baby, and her body.

Knightley, who recently starred in The Imitation Game, was clearly blown away by the mother-baby bond.

"The love thing is astonishing," she exclaimed. "It's a very primal, primal love. That's quite extraordinary."

She goes on to share, "And the ability to have no sleep and continue going. It's not pleasant - I never thought that I could actually do it for the amount of time that I've done it."

Knightley also shared her baby's name for the first time - Edie. An English derivative of Edith, Edie means "prosperous in war", as stated in Nameberry.

The name is in keeping with Knightley's love of the classics - she has put her face to some of the most well-known literary heroines such as Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenina, and Lady Guinevere.

Astonishingly, Knightly, often touted as one of the most beautiful people in the world, also told Elle that the birthing process has given her a boost of self-confidence.

"I have to say, as a woman, you hate certain parts of your body. You go through those periods where you look in the mirror and you think, 'Oh, if only I had different legs or arms or whatever.' You go through pregnancy and labor and then feeding the kid and you go, 'Wow, my body is totally amazing, and I'm never going to not like it again, because it did this, and this is f-ing extraordinary.' "

Although she enjoyed her pregnancy and the birth, for the most part, there was one aspect that marred the whole joyous process - celebrating her 30^th birthday without any alcohol.

She was in her third trimester at that stage, and had to celebrate sober.

"I was heavily pregnant, I couldn't drink - What is the point of having a thirtieth birthday if I couldn't get phenomenally drunk? But my husband [James Righton] took over, arranged a lovely lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, 20 of us, and they were all being so sweet, like, 'Look, you can have a great time and be sober!' And it's fine apart from the fact that they started drinking at about one."

It's good to see that she hasn't lost her touch of playfulness, now that she's a responsible mother.