Elisabeth Moss is pregnant and expecting her first child
Elizabeth Mos is pregnant with her first child. The actress confirmed the news during a Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance on Tuesday, January 30.
“Are you pregnant or just an incredibly dedicated method actor?” host Jimmy Kimmel joked. Moss, 41, replied: “A little bit of both.”
When asked how she's feeling, Moss said “not bad,” noting that she's been “incredibly lucky” during the pregnancy. “Things are going very well,” she added.
Moss has remained tight-lipped about her post-divorce love life Fred Armisen in 2010. The former couple married in October 2009 and separated in June 2010, finalizing their divorce in May 2011.
The West wing however, the alum has spoken out about wanting to start a family. “I really want to be a mother,” Moss said Marie Claire UK in May 2018. “I like the idea of passing on what my mother passed on to me.”
Moss commented, “It's not for everyone, and I didn't know if it would be for me, but lately I'm thinking it is. However, I have no idea yet how I want to do it, or what the plan is.”
The Emmy winner confessed that part of the “problem” was that she didn't have time for dating, explaining that she was “very focused on [her] work, so it's hard to find the time to give yourself to someone.
Four years later, Moss revealed that she was still planning to welcome a child into her life after being such a close bond with her mother. Linda Mossa musician.
“I definitely want to have children because I am very inspired by the kind of mother my mother is,” Elisabeth said you magazine in April 2022. “She did something beautiful with me.”
The former Crazy men Star joked that if she had a baby of her own, she would “give the child to my mother and she could raise it because she would do a really good job!”
Elisabeth's role as June Osborne/Offred The Handmaid's Tale also prepared her for motherhood – although in the show her character is forced to have children under dystopian rule. She previously revealed that one of the hardest scenes for her to film was her naked birth scene in season 2.
“People kept asking me, 'Are you okay? This must be really hard for you!'” she recalled during a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in August 2019. “I was like, 'You know I'm not actually in labor, right?' Like: 'I think this is really easier than actually giving birth!'”
While Elisabeth Moss and other The Handmaid's Tale stars play characters with tumultuous relationships, they've managed to find love off-screen. Moss made headlines when she started dating Fred Armisen after they met on Saturday Night Live. Three months after the actress appeared in a sketch with her Mad Men costar Jon Hamm, she revealed […]
Elisabeth revealed that the most uncomfortable part was working with the baby, who had to look like a newborn. To get the right “guck” a baby has after delivery, she said, “They put cream cheese and jelly on the baby.”
Not only did the baby “not have it,” but Elisabeth also remembered that the concoction “smelled.”
Despite the dark storylines and complex birth scenes, Elisabeth told Kimmel she was happy to work on such a powerful show. “It's important to us. We love it, it's an incredible opportunity,” she added. “And I think it's a great challenge for us, but also very rewarding.”