By Wonderwall.com Editors
9:00am PST, Dec 26, 2023
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Wonderwall.com rounded up all the stars who are currently expecting children…
Emmy-winning actor Darren Criss and his wife, writer-producer Mia Swier, are expecting their second child, the "Glee" and "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story" star announced on Dec. 21.
The news came in the form of a poorly (but hilariously) Photoshopped "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" movie poster Instagram post featuring the couple and their first child, daughter Bluesy Belle.
"And COMING SOON… let's hope the sequel is better than the photoshop," Darren wrote in the caption.
Keep reading for more stars who are expanding their families…
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Hilary Duff is pregnant again!
The former child star and husband Matthew Koma, a musician and producer, announced their happy news in their 2023 holiday card, which they shared on Instagram on Dec. 12.
Around a photo of their family that included Hilary with her hand on her growing baby bump, Matthew and kids Banks Bair, 4, Mae Bair, 2, and Luca Comrie, 11 — the "Lizzie McGuire" alum's son from her first marriage — read, "So much for silent nights. Love, the Duff-Bair-Comrie Crew."
On the back of the card were solo photos of all three kids plus the message, "Buckle up Buttercups, we're adding one more to this crazy bunch!"
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On Dec. 4, Us Weekly confirmed via a source that music stars Ashanti and Nelly are expecting their first child together. The news came after the couple both put their hands on Ashanti's stomach while on stage at Nelly's Black and White Ball in St. Louis days earlier.
This is the first child for the "Foolish" hitmaker, 43, and the third for the "Hot in Here" and "Ride Wit Me" singer, 49, who has two adult children with ex Channetta Valentine.
The couple dated on and off from 2003 to 2013 and in 2023 confirmed rumors they'd gotten back together.
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After more than five years of dating, Suki Waterhouse and Robert Pattinson are having a baby.
After weeks of speculation that the model, singer and actress was pregnant with the "Twilight" heartthrob's child, the "Daisy Jones & the Six" star confirmed the news while on stage at the Corona Capital Festival in Mexico.
Suki, who was wearing a glittery, feathery pink ensemble, told fans, "I'm extra sparkly today because I thought it might distract you from something else that's going on," then opened her coat to reveal her growing baby bump, eliciting cheers from the audience. "I'm not sure if it's working," she quipped before beginning a song.
A month after the pregnancy announcement, People magazine confirmed the couple are also engaged.
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On Nov. 17, all-grown-up "Spy Kids" actress Alexa PenaVega and her husband, "Big Time Rush" alum Carlos PenaVega, announced that they're expecting their fourth child together.
"Thank God we love adventures Oh baby here we come! Número cuatro!" she shared along with a bump-reveal photo on Instagram.
The new baby will join siblings Ocean, 6, Kingston, 4, and Rio, 2.
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Less than 11 months after welcoming their first child, daughter Brynley Noelle — who arrived exactly nine months after their wedding — former "Counting On" star Jeremiah Duggar and wife Hannah announced that she's pregnant with their second baby.
On Nov. 18, Jeremiah and Hannah took to Instagram to share a photo with their daughter alongside ultrasound images of the new baby they're expecting. "Life just keeps getting sweeter! #thebestdays #sograteful," the couple captioned the pic.
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Multiple media outlets reported in mid-October that Ashley Benson and Brandon Davis are expecting their first child together. "She's around the four-month [mark] and so excited to be a mom," said an Us Weekly source, adding that the "Pretty Little Liars" alum's family is "thrilled for her."
On Nov. 6, Ashley confirmed the news as she and Brandon posed for photos while shopping at Babylist's Beverly Hills showroom (see a photos next).
Another Us Weekly source noted that Ashley "always wanted to be a mom" and that the pregnancy "was not a surprise," adding, "She wanted to start a family with Brandon. It was something that was extremely important to him and was vocalized from the very beginning. She initially wasn't expecting to have kids at this time in her life but that changed after falling so deeply in love with him."
The actress and the heir to a multi-billion-dollar oil empire just went public with their romance in January. In July, they announced that they'd gotten engaged. In November 2023, a source confirmed that parents-to-be had recently tied the knot.
Keep reading to see Ashley's bump reveal…
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Gold medal-winning Olympic swimming legend Michael Phelps and wife Nicole — a former beauty queen — are having another baby, she announced while marking their seventh wedding anniversary on social media on Oct. 29.
"We're expecting our 4th Phelps in 2024," Nicole added to her anniversary message.
The couple are already parents to three boys: Boomer, 7, Beckett, 5, and Maverick, 4.
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Less than a year after secretly welcoming her fifth child, former MTV star Kailyn Lowry is pregnant again – and this time, she's having twins!
On the Oct. 27 episode of her "Barely Famous" podcast, the "Teen Mom" alum announced that she and boyfriend Elijah Scott are expecting two bundles of joy. "This is my … sixth pregnancy," she said, "like, six and seven for me."
Kailyn shared that she got pregnant before a vacation in Thailand. According to Page Six, she joked on the podcast that she came home from the trip with "permanent souvenirs."
In November, she revealed the gender of her twins: A boy and — in a first for Kailyn — a girl!
Kailyn is already a mother of five: She shares son Isaac with ex-boyfriend Jo Rivera; son Lincoln with ex-husband Javi Marroquin; sons Lux and Creed with ex-boyfriend Chris Lopez; and son Rio with current beau Elijah.
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Tara Lipinski — the figure skater who won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics — is finally going to be a mom.
On the Oct. 5 episode of her "Tara Lipinski: Unexpected" podcast, the athlete-turned sports commentator revealed that after five years of infertility and failed IVF attempts, she and her husband, sports producer Todd Kapostasy, "decided to take one of our own biological, genetic embryos and give it to a surrogate. We matched with a heaven sent surrogate Mikayla and we received a positive pregnancy test," Tara said.
"It was just so surreal. It couldn't have been happening to us like we don't get this news, this doesn't happen to us. I almost didn't believe it," she said, adding, "I was just sobbing. But like, that ugly sobbing of just years of all of this trauma pouring out of my eyes.
Tara said she finally felt like "maybe our lives are going to finally change and we're not going to be in the same, awful hamster wheel anymore."
She also explained how she took her fertility for granted her whole life. "It's crazy that I just thought, 'Oh I'm an athlete, this should be easy,'" she recalled. "I was so used to my body working for me. My body did not fail me for most of my life until it failed me."
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Adam Devine and wife Chloe Bridges shared some happy news on Oct. 2 — just days before their second wedding anniversary: The "Righteous Gemstones" and "Pitch Perfect actor — who got his start in stand-up and later co-created and starred on the Comedy Central series "Workaholics" — and the "Pretty Little Liars" actress are expecting their first child together.
"Look we're pregnant! Well, I'm just fat now but Chloe is all preggo with a human baby! Obviously, very exciting stuff!" the "Pitch Perfect" actor captioned photos of himself and his missus standing back to back while holding their bellies. "This will mostly be a baby page now, as I will be dedicating my life to my child in hopes he doesn't use my decades of recorded dirty jokes against me."
The "Carrie Diaries" actress posted more pics on her own page, writing, "We have news!! can't wait to get this lil family started."
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On Sept. 26, "Jersey Shore" star Mike "The SItuation" Sorrentino and wife Lauren Sorrentino announced that she's pregnant again just months after welcoming their second child.
"Good things come in threes," Mike captioned fall-themed family photos featuring their two kids — Romeo Reign, who was born in 2021, and Mia Bella, who arrived in January 2023 — plus some ultrasound images of their unborn child. "Adding another pumpkin to our patch Baby #3 coming March 2024."
Added Lauren, "Three under three here we go."
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Actor Josh Duhamel and second wife Audra Mari, who was Miss World America 2016, are expecting their first child together. The couple announced the happy news on Instagram on Sept. 11 — one day after their first wedding anniversary — captioning a pic of ultrasound images, "Baby Duhamel coming soon."
This will be the former beauty queen's first child and Josh's second: He shares son Axl, 10, with his music star ex-wife, Fergie.
Fergie shared her happiness for her ex, 50, and his new bride, 29, writing in the comments, "I am truly happy for you guys," adding, "Axl can't wait to be a big brother."
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She's a boy mom! On Sept. 1, Australian model Miranda Kerr announced that she's pregnant with her fourth child — and fourth son — at 40.
"So excited to announce baby No. 4," she captioned a photo debuting her growing baby bump, adding in another pic, "And it's a boy."
She naturally shared the news on Snapchat: Her husband is the social media app's CEO, Evan Spiegel, 33.
Miranda and Evan are already parents to sons Myles, who was born in 2019, and Hart, who was born in 2018.
The former Victoria's Secret model, who founded the Kora Organics skincare brand, also shares son Flynn, who was born in 2011, with her first husband Orlando Bloom.
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On Aug. 21, People magazine confirmed that Sienna Miller is pregnant with her second child.
The news broke after the Golden Globe-nominated actress was photographed vacationing on the island of Ibiza in Spain while wearing a bikini and sporting a visible baby bump. (On Sept. 14, she flaunted her baby bump again — this time on the red carpet at the Vogue World Spring/Summer 2024 presentation during London Fashion Week.)
The star has been dating model-actor Oli Green — who will appear on season 6 of "The Crown" as the law student Kate Middleton dated before Prince William — since 2022.
She also has a daughter Marlowe, 11, with former long-term partner Tom Sturridge.
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Jessie James Decker and husband Eric Decker are expecting their fourth child. The singer announced the happy news on Instagram on Aug. 22 with a video debuting her growing baby bump.
The news came months after Jessie revealed that the former NFL star refused to get a vasectomy following the birth of their third child. "He won't. He just won't do it," she told Us Weekly in January. "He says it takes, like, his manhood away from him."
Days after sharing her pregnancy news, Jessie took to her Instagram Story to share more with her followers, admitting she and Eric were "very, very, very surprised" to learn she was pregnant. "It was not planned," she said on Aug. 27. "As you know, I had been telling Eric it was probably time to get a vasectomy because I felt like we were done," she explained. "But I just feel like God always has other plans. It was extremely shocking and surprising but [we are] happy excited."
"Being able to have another little baby is, like, the most incredible blessing," she added. "We are all just over the moon."
The new baby will join their other children, Vivianne, 9, Eric Jr., 7, and Forrest, 5.
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"American Idol" alums Gabby Barrett, 23, and Cade Foehner, 27, are having another baby.
The country music singer is expecting their third child, a daughter, she and her musician husband announced on Aug. 30.
The new baby will join siblings Augustine Boone, who was born in October 2022, and Baylah May, who arrived in January 2021.
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Podcaster and notorious Bachelor Nation star Nick Viall is going to be a father. The 42-year-old former lead on "The Bachelor" — who ended two seasons of "The Bachelorette" as runner-up and also appeared on "Bachelor in Paradise" — and fiancée Natale Joy, 24, took to Instagram to announce their happy news on Aug. 8. "Our biggest dream came true," the couple captioned a series of pregnancy photos sharing their news on Instagram. Nick and Natalie, a surgical technologist and model who's not part of Bachelor Nation, started dating in 2020 after she messaged him on Instagram and announced their engagement in January 2023.
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In July 2023, former "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" star Clare Crawley announced that she and her husband of five months, Ryan Dawkins, are expecting their first child via surrogate in January 2024. "This is not her first baby, so she's just like, 'I got this,' which gives me confidence and actually relaxes me, so it makes me feel so comforted knowing that she's good and feels good," Clare said in an Instagram Q&A of her "champion" surrogate.
Clare later shared a video of herself cutting into a homemade cake that was pink inside to reveal that they're having a girl. "For the last 10 years I've had the same dream over and over. The dreams were so vivid and real of my baby coming into my life. All the beautiful details down to the gender and name," she captioned the clip, "So this special moment was not a surprise for me!"
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In May — a year after they tied the knot — former WWE champion Alexa Bliss and music star Ryan Cabrera announced that she was pregnant with their first child. And on July 18, "Entertainment Tonight" revealed that the wrestler and the "On the Way Down" singer had learned they're having a daughter. At the gender reveal celebration at Common Ground in New York City, Ryan smashed open a decorative guitar that showered partygoers with pink powder.
The couple told "ET" they weren't trying to conceive when they did but according to Alexa, it's still "the best timing." Added Ryan: "What we figured out after was, like, there's never the 'perfect' time. It would always be like, you know, 'This is in the way, this is in the way.' But what if we miss this?" They also shared that they're planning to decorate their little girl's nursery with a Disney and Peter Pan theme.
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Controversy-sparking comedy star Russell Brand and his wife of nearly six years, Laura Gallacher, are expecting their third child. The news was confirmed when the British actor — who was previously wed to pop star Katy Perry — was a guest on the June 29 episode of Steven Bartlett's "The Diary of a CEO" podcast. The couple are already parents to two girls: Peggy, 4, and Mabel, 6.
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Former "Dancing With the Stars" pro Mark Ballas and his wife, singer-songwriter BC Jean, are expecting their first baby, they announced on Instagram on June 26. In a reel that chronicled some of their recent adventures — a visit to Disneyland, making music, hitting the beach, spending time with their dog — they also shared that they've been busy "making… a tiny human."
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The royal couple known as "the Will and Kate of the Himalayas" is expanding their family. On June 14, King Jigme Khesar and Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan — a country in Southern Asia located between China and India on the Eastern edge of the Himalayan mountains — announced that she's pregnant with their third child, who's due in "early autumn." Their Majesties are already parents to two sons: heir Prince Gyalsey Jigme Namgyel, also known as the Dragon Prince, and Prince Jigme Ugyen Wangchuck, also known as Prince Gyalsey Ugyen.
