Rumours are circulating that Angelina Jolie is pregnant for the second time by partner Brad Pitt.

The actress, who has recently been filming The Changeling in Los Angeles, was set to give a lecture on child poverty around the world at the UN Pio Manzu Centre in Rimini, Italy this week but has cancelled due to “personal reasons”.

Newspapers in the country began reporting that these “personal reasons” are pregnancy related and a spokesperson from the centre told the Sun: “Angelina cancelled last week. Due to her privacy I can’t confirm her pregnancy, but I can say that the Italian newspapers are correct in their reports.”

The child would be a fifth for the family-loving couple: they already have two sons, Maddox and Pax, and two daughters, Zahara and Shiloh.