This Week's Cover: Oh Baby! Bridget Jones is back in exclusive first look 

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'Bridget Jones's Baby' release date set for September 2016

Bridget Jones swaps a diary for an iPad in the first photo from 'Bridget Jones’s Baby'

The last time we saw Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) at the end of

in 2004, the wanton sex goddess was engaged to Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and was well on her way to a happily ever after.

(out Sept. 16, 2016), Zellweger’s alter-ego is now 43, 

single, and in a bit of a pickle: she’s pregnant and is not sure who’s the father. Is it her on-and-off again beau with the bad sweaters or a hot new billionaire named Mark Qwant (Patrick Dempsey) who is way more of a threat to Mark than Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) ever was?

“This is part of the new challenge, discovering where she is now in her new life,” Zellweger tells EW. “But as an actress, it feels like stepping back with an old friend. I love this character, I like that she tells stories about what it’s like to be a woman and these really relatable situations at certain times in life. It’s so right to tell a story about Bridget in this stage of her life.”

In this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly, we present exclusive interviews with Zellweger, Firth and Dempsey about

, plus some fascinating new details about the third installment of the

franchise, all of which were inspired by Helen Fielding’s bestselling books. Among the revelations:

Was the movie based on Fielding’s third Bridget Jones novel,

Who came back to reprise their roles from the first and second novels?

Holy low-carb diet! Whose idea was it to have Zellweger’s Bridget look so lithesome?

Why do Zellweger, Firth, and Dempsey talk like they don’t know how the movie is going to end?

, and to see our exclusive photo shoot with the film’s stars, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on newsstands Monday, and throughout the week on EW.com. 

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