Between paparazzi snapping photos of them and journalists divulging their dirt, big Hollywood
stars don't have many places to hide, especially when they're pregnant. But some of them are
surprisingly good at keeping their lives low-key, like the following who had babies in secret.
Kylie Jenner is known for sharing so much of her life on reality TV, so she shocked us all in 2018
when she revealed that she had successfully hidden her pregnancy with her daughter Stormi
from the public. Rumors had been running rampant that she was hiding a baby bump,
but no one was able to confirm the theory that she was expecting rapper Travis Scott's child
until three days after she'd given birth. On February 4, she tweeted,
"I'm sorry for keeping you all in the dark through all the assumptions [...] I appreciate my friends
and especially my family for helping me make this special moment as private as we could."
Jenner's Instagram announcement revealing the little one's name broke the record
for the most-liked photo on the platform, unsurprising considering how she had been
keeping us on the edge of our seats for so long. Her mother Kris Jenner couldn't even
fathom the fact that nobody had slipped the news for nine months. On an episode
of Keeping Up with the Kardashians that aired shortly after, she said,
"Can you believe that Kylie got out of the hospital with not one report?"
Little Stormi is certainly not a secret anymore,
as we've all seen her sweet face countless times on Instagram.
As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic began, it seemed like the world was full of only bad news,
until it was revealed that Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel had a
new baby. Reports surfaced that their second son had arrived in early July 2020 while the
couple was tucked away in the mountains of Montana. It was the perfect time for
a private pregnancy considering that no one was out and about throughout the stay-at-home order.
The news of this latest addition immediately had Biel's fans stalking her social media pages
to find a baby bump that they'd missed. But no one had the slightest hunch that
she'd been pregnant, as she hadn't shared a photo of anything other than her face.
She and Timberlake never publicly made any announcement either, so all
eyes were on Timberlake's former bandmate Lance Bass, who spilled the beans two months later to
Entertainment Tonight. But he wouldn't reveal the infant's name, as he noted,
"Justin would kill me!"
"But the baby's cute?"
"Of course! It's Justin and Jess' baby, of course it is."
Considering that Biel and Timberlake rarely share their first son Silas' face on social media,
the world may have to wait quite a while before we find out his younger brother's name.
In June 2020, rapper Iggy Azalea decided to announce that she was a parent,
and actually had been for some time. As she revealed on an Instagram story,
"I have a son. I kept waiting for the right time to say something but it feels like the more time
passes the more I realize I'm always going to feel anxious to share news that giant with the world."
With the exception of some speculation from the website Hollywood Unlocked, nobody appeared to
have any idea about Azalea's pregnancy. In fact, to this day no one knows exactly when her son
was even born. The only thing we do know is his name, which is Onyx. As Azalea wrote on Instagram,
"I want to keep his life private but wanted to make it clear he
is not a secret & I love him beyond words."
Clearly, Azalea likes to keep her personal life private,
as evidenced by the fact that she also never announced the news of her engagement to
fellow rapper Playboi Carti in 2019 beyond sporting a massive rock on her ring finger.
Even though she became famous on Gossip Girl,
Leighton Meester sure hates being a part of any gossip herself. Unfortunately for her,
she and her husband Adam Brody were the talk of the town when it was revealed that she'd given
birth and nobody had any idea. But we probably should've expected that they were expecting.
After all, they tied the knot in secret, so why would having kids be any different?
In September 2015, it was reported that they'd become parents to a little girl named Arlo, and
they were extremely cautious about divulging any details. In 2017, Meester firmly told Refinery29,
"I don't talk about Arlo very much."
Unfortunately, though, that led to some people doing some digging. TMZ went so far as acquiring
the little lady's birth certificate, and it turns out that Arlo was born weeks before
the world caught wind about her. When it came time for baby number two in September 2020,
Brody was a bit more open. While he was gaming on Twitch, he announced,
"I have a new kid. I have a boy, and he's a dream, he's a dream boy."
We'll just have to keep making do with the peeks that Meester and Brody
occasionally provide during interviews and the like.
"So you're the good cop?"
"I wouldn't say."
"Come on, give it a name."
"I don't even think you can be a good cop. If you're a good parent at all,
you probably can't be a total good."
In September 2018, Us Weekly exclusively broke the exciting
news that actress Rashida Jones and her musician boyfriend Ezra Koenig
had welcomed a baby boy months earlier. It may have been old news for the two of them,
but it was pretty surprising for everyone else who never even knew that she was pregnant.
What's really shocking is the fact that Jones hit up many red carpet events while
she was expecting. She wore big blazers to cover her baby bump,
and noone was the wiser. In 2018, she told Net-a-Porter,
"I am pretty fierce about my privacy. I have made career choices to protect it."
Jones lent her voice to a couple of family-friendly animated films the following year,
so it seems safe to say that her son already has some age-appropriate stuff to see his mom in.
In 2016, Alexis Bledel was set to star in a Netflix revival of Gilmore Girls,
and then fans of hers got even more exciting news when it was revealed
that she'd become a mom the year before. As her co-star Scott Patterson told Glamour,
"She's really blossomed as a woman and now she's a proud new mother and married and happy [...] We're
comparing notes because my son is about a year and a half older than her young son."
Soon after, People Magazine was able to confirm that Bledel and her husband Vincent Kartheiser
had indeed welcomed a son into the world. Since becoming a parent, Bledel has become
notably pickier about her jobs. As she told Entertainment Tonight in 2019,
"I just think about what roles I take on, and make sure that it's really something
that I feel passionate about if I'm going to leave home and go work."
Unfortunately, nobody knows much more about her son than these small details. Although,
judging by his parents, we'd have to at least assume he's pretty cute.
If you want to talk about top-secret celebrity baby bumps,
you can't ignore Isla Fisher. When she was pregnant with her second child in 2010,
her co-workers should have seen the signs. She was suffering from morning sickness
and was constantly running offset while shooting the period piece Burke & Hare,
but nobody assumed anything. The director didn't even know! Unfortunately, that meant she had to
wear a costume that could've caused some problems. The 1828-set film required her to wear a corset,
so she had to take a massive risk in order to make it work. At the film's premiere, she admitted,
"I used to pretend I was wearing a corset and then not wear it,
just wear a push up bra – don't tell the director that."
Fisher's husband is Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen, who's also known for working in secret. The world
finally found out about their new addition when they were seen walking around in a park
as a family of four. Though they tried to keep their other two pregnancies secret as well,
the paparazzi quickly caught on, and photos of her baby bump have
surfaced for all the world to see. As Fisher told the Today Show in 2017,
"We are used to everyone sharing everything that I've become
an interesting news story for keeping a secret."
When it was revealed in June 2020 that Kristen Wiig had welcomed a new addition into the world,
we were all surprised because we never saw it coming. To make it even more shocking,
there were two bundles of joy. That's right: twins! Wiig had even explicitly mentioned it
to millions of us the month before during an at-home episode of Saturday Night Live.
"I'm so thankful for all the things she's taught me, preparing to be a mom myself."
How did we miss that?! Up until then,
none of her fans even knew that Wiig had been trying to have kids. For three years,
she had undergone IVF treatments alongside her fiancé Avi Rothman. As she told InStyle,
"Emotionally, spiritually, and medically, it was probably the most difficult time in my life."
So Wiig turned to surrogacy, which can make having a secret baby a little bit
easier when you're a high-profile actress who's constantly in the spotlight. She told InStyle,
"We tried to keep the [surrogacy] process private for as long as possible, because it is a very
private thing. Unfortunately, we were photographed with them — and, well, it's out there!"
But what's not out there quite yet are the little ones' names,
which Wiig doesn't seem willing to share with the world, at least for now.
In September 2020, our planet received some of the most surprising news in the galaxy when it
was revealed that Billie Lourd had become a mom! Her baby boy became Instagram official
when his itsy bitsy feet made their debut in a blue blanket along with the caption,
"Introducing: Kingston Fisher Lourd Rydell."
The actress had never even announced that she was expecting with her fiancé Austen Rydell.
They clearly managed to keep things pretty confidential. Many of her famous friends were
just as shocked as the rest of us were. Jamie Lee Curtis commented on the Instagram post,
"WAIT WHAT???"
And actor Cody Fern dubbed the news:
"The sneak attack."
Though we don't know anything else about little Kingston, it's obvious that he was named after
someone special. His middle name comes from his grandmother, the late Carrie Fisher,
who's of course best known as Princess Leia. In November 2019, a few months before Lourd even
found out she was expecting, she penned a personal essay for Time Magazine in which she discussed her
decision to make one more Star Wars movie after her mom passed away, noting the reason was:
"For my future kids, so someday they'll have one
more movie to watch that Mommy and Grandma were in together."
"Being back has been incredible, painful, surreal, all of the adjectives that you can come up with,
probably, I felt."
Cameron Diaz has been out of the spotlight for a few years now,
but in 2020 she found her way back in the headlines. She and her husband,
Good Charlotte musician Benji Madden, wrote on Instagram on January 3,
"We are so happy, blessed and grateful to begin this
new decade by announcing the birth of our daughter, Raddix Madden."
What a way to ring in the new year! Unfortunately, though,
this happy addition wasn't without its struggles. Back in 2018, an unnamed
source told Us Weekly that Diaz had been going through IVF treatments. The source explained,
"They don't know exactly what it will look like,
whether it will be natural or through adoption or surrogacy, but they aren't giving up."
This led many fans to believe that Diaz had turned to surrogacy,
along with the fact that she was photographed looking pretty slim
two months beforehand. But it seems like we'll never know for sure,
as Diaz doesn't look like she'll be divulging any more details. As she wrote on Instagram,
"While we are overjoyed to share this news, we also feel a strong instinct to
protect our little one's privacy. So we won't be posting pictures
or sharing any more details, other than the fact that she is really really cute!!"
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