Lala Kent & All the Other Celebrity Pregnancy Announcements of 2024

Lala Kent

Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent posted a sweet pregnancy announcement in March. “I’m expanding my pod,” she captioned an Instagram post that included a black-and-white photo of her bare baby bump and her daughter Ocean — who she shares with ex Randall Emmett.

Kent opened up about using a sperm donor on her podcast saying, “Only 10 percent of women who go into the California Cryobank to seek out a donor because they want to do parenthood on their own, there’s only 10 percent of people who, like me, who are like, ‘I just want a child and I need a donor.’”

“It’s a road I never thought I would be going down,” Kent told Cosmopolitan earlier this year. “I really saw myself in the cookie-cutter relationship and creating a family, but now that the universe has other plans for me, I’m so grateful this was an option.”

LA Thoma & Grant Gustin

Actor Grant Austin and his wife LA Thoma are expecting their second child in 2024.

“shaping up to be an exciting year ✨,” The Flash actor wrote on Instagram alongside an adorable black-and-white mirror selfie of him hugging Thoma who is cradling her bare baby bump. Meanwhile, their daughter Juniper is showing off her “In My Big Sister Era” T-shirt.

Steph Curry & Ayesha Curry

The Currys are about to be a family of six! Ayesha Curry announced the news via a cover story for Sweet July Magazine. The actress said she thought she and her husband Steph Curry “thought they were done” with having kids. She and the NBA star are proud parents to daughters Riley and Ryan and son Canon, but their mindset changed last year. 

“Somebody was missing,” she said.

One thing that’s been different and interesting about this pregnancy has been the doctor’s appointments, Ayesha said.

“I’m in my 30s, and so there’s all this paperwork referring to the experience as a ‘geriatric pregnancy’” she said candidly. “…I think there’s something that needs to be more nuanced when it comes to women, their age, and conversations around having children…being told you’re ‘old’ feels alarming and wild. I think the narrative needs to be shifted a little bit.” 

Emma Lovewell & Dave Clark

Peloton instructor Emma Lovewell is expecting her first baby with with fiancé Dave Clark, and they shared the news in the sweetest way.

Lovewell posted a video on Instagram where she and her soon-to-be husband both drop hiking boots down before adding baby hiking boots in the middle. “Getting ready for our next adventure!” she wrote over the video.

“And no we’re not getting another cat,” she captioned the post. “Baby human coming Summer 2024. 🥰.”

“I can’t contain myself. Kimchi and Rhody are going to be the best big brothers ever + you & Dave will be the coolest parents ever!!!!!!!! My heart can’t handle this hehciahdhcyvyejakfhvydiwoejrbfndjsuehf,” commented Peloton instructor Olivia Amato Waldron.

“*grabs knitting needles*” said Peloton instructor Hannah Corbin.

Gabourey Sidibe & Brandon Frankel

Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe is expecting twins with her husband Brandon Frankel, and her pregnancy announcement was everything.

“We thought it was time to give our cats some responsibility so we’re giving them each a baby to take care of!” she joked on Instagram. “Double the babies,double the cats, double the fun!!…Twinty Twinty Four!!”

“❤❤❤❤ Congratulations 🎉,” Tamron Hall commented.

“Omg. Congrats!!! Gimme a holler anytime. I know a thing or two bout this. ♥️,” said Cheyenne Jackson, who has twins of his own.

Brandon Jenner & Cayley Jenner

Brandon Jenner and his wife Cayley told People in February that they are “over the moon” that their family is growing. The two are already parents to twin sons Bo and Sam and daughter Eva. The couple said all three are excited to have a baby sibling, and Cayley revealed that Brandon “beat her to the punch” on the night she went to tell him she was pregnant.

 “I had the tests in my pocket and I was going to just lay them down as he was brushing his teeth, but before I could do it, he looked at me and said, ‘So how pregnant do you think you are?’ I was floored.”

He claims he didn’t see the tests’ packaging in the trash. Call it father’s intuition? 

“Then, we laid in bed and laughed hysterically thinking about how wild it would be if we had twins again,” Cayley said. “We conceived on Thanksgiving, which is so cute and special. I feel so grateful to get to do it all over again.”

Heléne Yorke & Bary Dunn

Actress Heléne Yorke announced she’s expecting Baby No. 2 with husband Barry Dunn in a wonderfully relatable Instagram announcement. Instead of posting glamorous and airbrushed maternity photos, Yorke shared a picture of her eating a slice of pizza at a restaurant. A splotch of sauce has fallen onto her baby bump and someone go ahead and hang it in the Louvre!

“Bean #✌🏼 dropping in June,” she captioned the post.

Emily VanCamp & Josh Bowman

Emily VanCamp and Josh Bowman are expecting their second child! She shared the announcement on her Instagram with the caption reading, “Not long now.. Ready when you are little love 🤍🤍🤍.” She and Bowman married in 2018, and previously welcomed a daughter named Iris, in Aug 2021.

Joaquin Phoenix & Rooney Mara

Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara are expecting their second baby! After Mara unveiled her baby bump on Feb 16,  they confirmed they’re expecting another kid together!

Phoenix and Mara have been together since 2016, and welcomed a son back in 2020.

Jake McLaughlin & Stephanie McLaughlin

Actor Jake McLaughlin and his wife Stephanie are about to be a family of seven! The Will Trent star — who is dad to kids Rowan, Reagan, Freya, and Logan — announced during a press tour that he and Stephanie wil be welcoming a baby boy in a few weeks.

“That’ll be number five for all of you that are like, shaking your head at me for having five kids,” he said. “But we’re really happy and excited.”

“And so it’s been really nice to be able to go home and be with my wife, and make doctor’s appointments with her and do all that stuff,” he continued, explaining he’s grateful he’s in a “really good place right now” where he can separate his professional and private life.

Hallie Ray Light McCollum & Parker McCollum

Country singer Parker McCollum and his wife Hallie Ray Light announced their pregnancy in a sweet joint post on Instagram. Hallie posted an oceanside sunset photo where Parker leans down and kisses her while she cradles her bump.

“God’s little blessing,” Hallie wrote. “We love you so much already, Baby M!”

Parker had a funny response in the comments, acting like this was all news to him. “Wow! Awesome news! So happy to hear about this! I love you babe! Congrats!”

Maks Chmerkovskiy & Peta Murgatroyd

Dancing with the Stars pros Peta Murgatroyd and Maks Chmerkovskiy found out they were expecting a third bundle of joy just four months after they welcomed their son Rio. Murgatroyd announced her pregnancy with a hilarious video on Instagram.

The dancer FaceTimed her husband, admitting it took her an hour to work up the courage. She kept trying to hint that she was pregnant, saying she was nauseous, that she took a test (“Thank God it’s not COVID!”), munching on a pickle, saying they should buy a bigger house, and preparing two bottles. But he just wasn’t getting it.

“My two friends secretly filming from different angles made it all the more hilarious…when he wasn’t catching on we all couldn’t stop laughing in the kitchen…Oh Maks 🥴”

“Yes we know…we just had a baby… haha! This was very unexpected…but we are sooooo happy and so ready to be a family of 5 soon!”

The two also share a 7-year-old son Shai.

Elisabeth Moss

Congratulations to Elisabeth Moss! The Handmaid’s Tale actress is expecting her first baby. 

She appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night, wearing a form-fitting black dress that revealed her baby bump. Host Jimmy Kimmel asked her, “Are you pregnant or just an incredibly committed method actor?”

She joked, “A little bit of both.”

The Mad Men star said she has been “really lucky” because her pregnancy has “been going really well.”  

Aly Michalka

Aly Michalka announced her pregnancy via exclusive photos with PEOPLE on Jan. 31. The Aly & AJ singer is expecting her first baby with filmmaker husband Stephen Ringer. 

“It’s been a really easy pregnancy, which I feel really lucky and blessed to have experienced,” Michalka told the outlet. She found out she was pregnant one day before performing a sold-out concert at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in September.

“In another world I could have waited to take a test another day, but for whatever reason I was like, ‘I’m past a week being late, and I should just take the test,’ ” she told PEOPLE. “And then it was just like, ‘Oh my gosh. We play this huge show tonight, and now I’m holding in this huge secret.’ ”

Then the iZombie star took her sister AJ out to dinner to share the news. “I was like, ‘There was a special guest that was at the Greek that you didn’t know was there,’ and she was like, ‘Who?'” she recalled. “I was like, ‘There’s a baby,’ and I touched my stomach, and then she was like, ‘What?!’ She was just really excited and overjoyed. From there, we told the rest of the family.”

Brennon Lemieux & Alexa Alfia

After trying for almost a year and a half, Love Is Blind couple Alexa Afia Lemieux and Brennon Lemieux are expecting a baby this summer, per People. 

“We wanted this to happen and so we’re just grateful to be here,” Alexa said. “…I just love looking in the mirror, because I remember not being pregnant and looking in the mirror and [thinking], ‘Oh, I just can’t wait for something to be there.”

“Now there is, and I’m like, I love it! I just lay my hands on my stomach and just rub it all the time. I’m obsessed.”

Sofia Richie & Elliott Grainge

Sofia Richie first had an inkling she was expecting a baby with husband Elliott Grainge in the chicest setting.

“I found out very, very early,” she tells Vogue in her pregnancy announcement. “I was about four weeks pregnant. I was on a trip to Milan for fashion week, and I was going to the Prada show…I felt terrible but didn’t think much of it. I thought it was jet lag.”

She told the outlet she and her husband had been casually trying to get pregnant for months so he “didn’t really flinch” when she decided to take a test before having a “boozy night” at the Ed Sheeran concert. The faintest of lines appeared on her “really crappy at-home test,” so she sent Grainge to CVS to pick up three of the best tests he could find.

“We spoke the whole way on the phone,” the model said. “And when he came home, he’s such a sweet guy he always wants to protect my emotions and expectations, so he kind of sat me down and said, ‘If these are negative, don’t be upset. Our moment will come.’ When we turned over all three tests at the same time they were all positive. He was so excited, and we both cried. It was crazy and overwhelming and so hard not to scream it from the rooftops. But knowing I was so early, I was so protective—even with my friends.”

When she reached the 8-week mark, the couple decided to tell their parents. They gave them “a Hermès box or some sort of box” and said there was a gift inside from Milan Fashion Week.

“Everyone was like ‘Ooooh Hermes!’ But then they opened it and it had all three of the pregnancy tests [in it]. That’s how we told all of our parents. Watching their reaction go from like, ‘I’m about to get an expensive present’ to like ‘I’m about to get a grandchild’ was really sweet.”

Ashley Iaconetti & Jared Haibon

Bachelor in Paradise couple Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon revealed during an Amazon Live that they’re expecting a second child. And how exactly did they share the news? By dressing their toddler Dawson in a “BIG BROTHER” shirt. Later, they shared an adorable video in a joint post on Instagram. In it, Dawson “sings along” (read: holds a microphone) to Justin Bieber’s “Baby” and points to his mom’s baby bump that she flashes for the camera.

“Dawson has a sibling on the way! Thank you all for the love and congratulations! We’re so appreciative. It’s beyond expression!…If you’re yearning to be a parent, I’m sending you love and thinking of you on the emotional journey,” they captioned the post.

Haibon told People that both he and Iaconetti have a sibling and they wanted Dawson to have one too.

“I want that big family dynamic, but man, having so many kids is just so overwhelming,” he said. “So even the idea of a second kid, it’s no longer two-on-one where we can play defense against him. Now it’s just one-on-one.”

Linda Phan & Drew Scott

HGTV’s Drew Scott revealed in January that he and wife Linda Phan are welcoming Baby No. 2 with a sweet photo of their son Parker reaching for his mom’s baby bump.

“Round 2👶 I hope Parker’s ready for a lil company❤️❤️,” Scott captioned the post.

“What!?! Congrats y’all!!” commented fellow HGTV star Ben Napier.

“Congratulations ❤️ this is so beautiful and exciting 😍,” said Debra Salmoni of HGTV and HGTV Canada.

Kali Uchis & Don Toliver

Singer Kali Uchis and rapper Don Toliver announced they are expecting a baby in the most fitting way possible…with a music video! Uchis shared a clip of her video for  “Tu Corazón Es Mio” on Instagram that includes footage of her and her boyfriend at doctor’s appointments, him kissing her belly, and them slow dancing with her bare baby bump on full display.

“Starting our family❤️‍🩹 don’t take too long to get here little pooks, mom & dad can’t wait to share our life with you,” Uchis captioned the post.

Fellow singers were so happy for the couple. “CONGRATULATIONS YALLLLL!!! Most Angelic lighthearted pretty baby otwww 🫶🏾🥹💗,” SZA said. “CONGRATULATIONS YALLLLL!!! Most Angelic lighthearted pretty baby otwww 🫶🏾🥹💗,” Halle Bailey commented.

Jon Pardi & Summer Pardi

Country singer Jon Pardi and his wife Summer announced that they are expecting Baby No. 2 with a sweet video on Instagram. In it, they walk through an unfinished house with their daughter Presley (b. Feb 2023) who is holding onto sonogram photos.

“Good thing we have that extra guest room 😉,” Summer captioned the post. “We can’t wait to fill this home with all of the love from our little family of four 🤍”

“CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!” Taylor Kerr wrote.

“😭😭😭😭 sooo excited !!!!! Love getting to be pregnant with my girl !!!!! Alll the sweet babies 🥹😭🙏🏼❤️ CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎉,” Katelyn Brown said.

Rose McIver & George Byrne

Rose McIver announced her pregnancy by debuting her baby bump on the Golden Globes red carpet. “Mum and dad went out ❤️,” the Ghosts actress later captioned an Instagram post with photos of her and husband George Byrne.

“YES YES YES,” Bella Heathcote commented.

“MAMA BEAR!!!!” Danielle Pinnock said.

Emily Miller & Cam Holmes

Too Hot to Handle alums Emily Miller and Cam Holmes are expecting a baby, per People, a year and a half after the couple tragically suffered a pregnancy loss. At the time, Miller was hospitalized for an ectopic pregnancy and had to have a fallopian tube removed.

“After what happened last time, I didn’t even know if I’d even want to get pregnant again in case I had to go through that again,” Miller told the outlet. “It sounds cliché, but it really is our little miracle. This is what I’m so excited for, to be able to tell people it is possible.”

Miller sweetly relayed that her mom was the first person she told, given that she is living with her mom and Holmes is living with a friend while they wait to move into a new home.

“As soon as I took the pregnancy test, I came out of the bathroom, and she was literally walking past my room, and so I said, ‘Oh my God, Mum,'” Miller said. “We were both just hugging each other in tears. She’s been so good. If I come through the door even holding a shopping bag from the supermarket, she’ll be like, ‘No, no, no, no, no. Let me take that. Let me take that.'”

Holmes did not have quite the same reaction at first. “I wish I recorded his reaction because it looked like someone had seen a ghost,” Miller said. “I’ll say it wasn’t the reaction I was hoping for, but he’s more of a realist. I think, because of what happened last time, he was just very skeptical, and he was just worried, I think, is what it came down to. He was just like, ‘But what if it happens again?'”

Since then, he’s gotten so excited, Miller shared, and the two can’t wait for their “miracle” baby who is due in June 2024.