In real life,” Cate Blanchett told Us at the March 1 premiere of Cinderella, “I’m not the evil stepmother.” Quite the opposite, actually. On March 6, four days after Blanchett, 45, was spotted cradling a newborn on a flight from L.A. to Sydney, she and her director husband, Andrew Upton, 49, announced they had adopted a daughter: Edith Vivian Patricia Upton. Sitting in first class on the Qantas flight, the mom of boys Dashiell, 13, Roman, 10, and Ignatius, 6, “looked very natural and relaxed with the baby,” says a witness. “She was very cuddly.” And with years of diaper changes and lullabies already logged, the Australian two-time Oscar winner is a pro. “There was no indication that Cate needed another set of hands to help her,” adds the source.…
