12 Celebrities Who Stored Their Pregnancies a Secret

On condition that celebrities already reside a high-profile life, it is sensible that whereas a few of them are glad to announce their pregnancies, others select to maintain the large information below wraps. Identical to us common folks, typically they’d select to prioritize privateness, particularly throughout such a life-changing chapter. As Kylie Jenner wrote after the 2018 start of her first little one, “My being pregnant was one I selected to not do in entrance of the world. I knew for myself I wanted to arrange for this function of a lifetime in essentially the most constructive, stress-free and wholesome means I knew how.”

As a few of our favourite celebrities have confirmed, it is doable to maintain the information a secret up till supply. Among the births under had been speculated about however by no means confirmed, and others got here as a whole, glad shock to followers. Under, revisit among the greatest secret (or tremendous quiet) movie star pregnancies and start bulletins.

Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott

Arguably essentially the most well-known case of the key movie star being pregnant, Kylie Jenner stored her first being pregnant with daughter Stormi Webster utterly non-public. She was not often photographed and although there was loads of hypothesis round a possible being pregnant, Jenner and her inside circle didn’t make a peep till she dropped a video of your complete expertise which provided a glimpse of her labor and supply. 

In response to Jenner, she needed to maintain her being pregnant non-public as a result of she’d already shared a lot of her life on her household’s actuality present. “I used to be additionally actually younger once I acquired pregnant. And it was only a lot for me, personally,” Jenner defined in 2021. (She was 20 when Stormi was born.) “I didn’t know the way I’d carry that to the general public too and have, you understand, everybody’s opinions. I feel it was simply one thing that I wanted to undergo on my own.”

Halle Bailey and DDG 

The Little Mermaid star Halle Bailey and her boyfriend rapper Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr., professionally referred to as DDG, welcomed their first little one, son Halo, in early 2024. Bailey by no means publicly shared her being pregnant information and solely after her little one was born did she share later that her option to preserve the expertise non-public got here from a “place of safety” for herself and her son. 

“There was no means in hell I used to be going to share the most important pleasure of my world with anybody. Halo was my present,” she stated. “He’s the best blessing, and I had no obligation to reveal him, me, or my household to that.” Although the brand new mother and father initially stored Halo’s face non-public, he does make cute cameos on their social media in the present day.

Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden

The actress and musician (of Good Charlotte) secretly welcomed not one however two kids, daughter Raddix and son Cardinal, through surrogate. “We’re blessed and excited to announce the start of our son, Cardinal Madden,” the couple wrote in a joint put up on Instagram. “He’s superior and we’re all so glad he’s right here!” The mother and father are very protecting of their kids and don’t share photographs of their faces, as they famous within the caption. “For the youngsters’ security and privateness we gained’t be posting any photos – however he’s a extremely cute.”

Mindy Kaling

When Mindy Kaling shared that she’d given start to her third little one, a daughter named Anne, in early 2024, followers had been shocked. Initially, she didn’t share the information till June, and child Anne was born in February. Secondly, she managed to keep away from being photographed. “In late February I gave start to my daughter, Anne. She’s the very best birthday current I might’ve ever imagined,” Kaling wrote on Instagram.

This wasn’t Kaling’s first secret being pregnant; she welcomed son Spencer in 2021 through the COVID-19 pandemic. “It has been fantastic,” the star shared of the expertise. “I do not know if I like to recommend everybody having a secret being pregnant throughout a worldwide pandemic, however I’ll say I realized lots from it. Positively like a as soon as in a lifetime sort of factor.” Kaling has additionally by no means disclosed the daddy(s) or her kids, however she does publicly consult with herself as a single mom. 

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend

Teigen and Legend welcomed not one however two infants in 2023; daughter Esti was born in January 2023, and son Wren adopted in June through surrogate. 

In an Instagram put up, Teigen defined that she had at all times needed 4 kids. However as a result of Teigen wasn’t positive she might carry one other little one on her personal after the lack of son Jack, the couple determined to pursue surrogacy in 2021. On the identical time, she and Legend started the IVF course of as soon as once more, which ended up being successful. 

Whereas Teigen was pregnant with one child, the couple came upon their surrogate had grow to be pregnant with a second child—which meant Teigen was truly pregnant concurrently her surrogate.  Teigen confirmed Wren’s start on Instagram with an ode to their “loving, compassionate” surrogate. 

“We wish to say thanks for this unimaginable present you might have given us, Alexandra,” she wrote. “And we’re so glad to inform the world he’s right here, with a reputation eternally related to you, Wren Alexander Stephens.”

Paris Hilton and Carter Reum

Paris Hilton stored the start of her first little one, son Phoenix, such a secret that even her mother Kathy didn’t know she was pregnant. Child Phoenix met his grandma for the primary time on an episode of Hilton’s actuality collection Paris in Love.

“My life has been so public, so on the market. I didn’t need my son to come back into this world with any unfavourable vitality,” Hilton defined of her choice to maintain the information tremendous, tremendous non-public till Phoenix was born through surrogate. “I’m actually glad I did it that means, only for Carter and I to have that journey collectively with out the skin world chirping in.”

Kane and Katelyn Brown

The nation musician and his spouse stored their second being pregnant low-key and personal, saying the arrival of daughter Kodi after her start. In response to Kane, this was partly due to social media consideration.

“I am not bashing anyone, however final time, I despatched an image to my older brother, and he put it on social media earlier than we introduced it,” he defined in 2022. “So everyone already knew about it, and it was sort of upsetting.” He went on to say that the couple needed to share the information “on their very own phrases.”

Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Track

Culkin and Track stored the information of each pregnancies as non-public as doable; they introduced the start of their first son, Dakota, in 2021, telling Esquire that they had been “overjoyed” by the arrival. (Dakota is called for Culkin’s late sister, who died in 2008). Their second son adopted in 2023, although his title has not been shared. In his Hollywood Stroll of Fame speech, Culkin referred to as his household “my three favourite folks.”

Riley Keough and Ben Smith-Peterson

The actress and her husband quietly welcomed their first little one, daughter Tupelo, through surrogate in 2022, however information of the child’s start wasn’t confirmed till she was talked about in Keough’s 2023 eulogy to her mom, the late Lisa Marie Presley. Keough shared her daughter’s title in an interview with Vainness Truthful, saying that it was an homage to the birthplace of her grandfather Elvis. Her center title, Storm, is in honor of Keough’s late brother Benjamin.

“That is the factor in my life thus far that I’ve actually needed to, quote-unquote, get proper,” Keough shared. “I do not assume you ever generally is a excellent father or mother, however I want to be the very best mother for her that I could be.”

Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara

The actors, who met in 2017, welcomed their first little one in 2020—director Victor Kossakovsky shared that Phoenix had a son at a movie competition, however neither actor has ever spoken publicly about their little one. We do know that the kid is called River after Phoenix’s late brother, actor River Phoenix.

Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling

The movie star couple’s second daughter, Amada, was born in April 2016, shocking followers. Whereas Mendes had been photographed sporadically throughout her being pregnant, she was usually coated as much as obscure her bump. The couple, who’re additionally mother and father to their elder daughter Esmeralda, is extraordinarily non-public about their household life and barely share updates about their kids.

Ashley Olsen and Louis Eisner

It comes as no shock that the notoriously non-public Ashley Olsen was capable of preserve her being pregnant below wraps—and that we do not know a lot in regards to the couple’s little one. All we do know is that she and her husband Louis Eisner welcomed their son Otto in 2023.