“Wanderlust” star, Malin Akerman announced on Friday that she is expecting her first child. The good news could not come at a better time as the couple was eagerly waiting to become parents for the first time, according to a recent report published by Us Weekly.

Malin Akerman and her husband of five years, Roberto Zincone, the drummer of the band The Petalstones, announced on Friday that they are going to become parents for the first time. The actress is already making preparations for the arrival of the baby even though she found out she was pregnant several weeks ago.

The news that they were going to become parents didn’t take Malin and Roberto by surprise as they have been trying to conceive for some time. The actress declared in a 2011 interview that she wants to have at least one baby and she hopes this could happen sooner rather than later. It is not just the actress who is prepared to become a mother, but Roberto, too. His easygoing demeanor was reason enough for Akerman to understand that her husband is going to make a wonderful father for her children.

The two have recently finished renovating their home, so they are ready for the new changes that are about to take place in their lives. Malin confessed in a recent interview that the atmosphere in their home is very pleasant, considering that they rarely bicker. If they disagree about something, the two “sort of fume at each other”, but in the end, they always come up with a solution.

The secret to a long lasting relationship like theirs is to keep the romance alive, according to Akerman. The married couple uses every opportunity they have to spend time together and rejuvenate their feelings for each other. During the shooting of the 2009 “Couple’s Retreat”, Roberto accompanied his wife to Bora Bora and, thus, the two love birds enjoyed the honeymoon they never had.