Cecily Robust. Abaca Press/INSTARimages
Cecily Robust is pregnant and anticipating her first baby along with her fiancé, Jack.
“A pair years in the past I did a chunk on SNL as Goober the Clown who had an abortion the day earlier than her twenty third birthday,” the Saturday Evening Dwell alum, 40, wrote by way of Instagram on Friday, November 1. “I’m completely happy to report that very same clown is now very fortunately pregnant from IVF at 40.”
Robust opened up about her journey with being pregnant, from an abortion in her early 20s to looking for out in vitro fertilization (IVF) later in life.
“I’ve been in a number of ready rooms with different ladies all through my life,” she mirrored. “Feeling terrified and lonely all these years in the past at a clinic in California, to feeling annoyed and anxious in fertility workplaces in New York the previous couple of years, to giddily speaking everybody’s ear off and wishing everybody round me good luck like I used to be Forrest Gump the day of my switch.”
So many stars have introduced that they’re increasing their households by welcoming infants in 2024. Princess Beatrice is pregnant along with her second baby, Buckingham Palace introduced in October 2024. The palace mentioned 36-year-old Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, “are very happy to announce that they’re anticipating their second baby collectively in […]
The actress added that whereas she’s been candid about her life experiences, many have turned to her as a pillar of assist.
“I’ve had a pal sit with me and provides me the most important hug after my abortion at 23, just for me to take a seat along with her and provides her the most important hug 17 years later after a troublesome being pregnant loss,” she continued. “I had household and strangers attain out after Goober and inform me of their very own experiences — a few of whom had by no means shared with anybody earlier than.”
She continued: “I’ve seen so many ladies in these ready rooms going by their very own struggles and journeys with their reproductive well being and household planning and bodily autonomy. Some look relieved. Some look excited. Some look fearful. Some appear like they’re carrying the deep disappointment of prior losses and the even deeper hope of some excellent news lastly. Some look as merely dumbstruck completely happy to be there as me as Forrest Gump on my switch day. However the one factor no person in these rooms has ever seemed is unable to make her personal selections.”
Robust concluded her announcement by encouraging everybody to vote within the upcoming election. She added that she is “actually hopeful” to satisfy her child “subsequent spring.”
Whereas some celebrities get began rising their households early on, these stars waited to have youngsters till later in life. Alanis Morissette, for instance, introduced in March 2019 that she is anticipating her third baby at age 44. The “Ironic” singer, who married rapper Mario “Souleye” Treadway in 2010, posted a child bump pic to […]
Earlier this yr, Robust revealed throughout a March look on Late Evening with Seth Meyers that she and her longtime accomplice, Jack, acquired engaged on the finish of 2023. The actress shared that the proposal was meant to be a shock, however it ended up getting spoiled.
“Sooner or later he was like, ‘I’m so inundated with emails and texts, have a look at this. ‘ And he confirmed me his telephone, and the primary textual content was from a pal that mentioned, ‘How did it go?! Ring emoji,’” Robust recalled. “After which, I used to be like, ‘Oh no, ought to I?’ And he went, ‘Did you see that?’ And I used to be like, ‘I may attempt very onerous to lie, however…’ So then I knew.”