Elisabeth Moss is pregnant with her first child. The actress showed the inside track all through a Jimmy Kimmel Reside! look on Tuesday, January 30.
“Are you pregnant or just an incredibly committed method actor?” host Jimmy Kimmel joked. Moss, 41, answered, “A little bit of both.”
When requested how she’s been feeling, Moss mentioned “not bad,” noting she’s been “incredibly lucky” during the being pregnant. “It’s been going really well,” she added.
Moss has remained tight-lipped about her love existence following her break up from Fred Armisen in 2010. The previous couple tied the knot in October 2009 and separated in June 2010, finalizing their divorce in Might 2011.
The West Wing alum, then again, has been vocal about short of to boost a circle of relatives. “I do want to be a mother,” Moss instructed Marie Claire UK in Might 2018. “I like the idea of passing on what my mother passed on to me.”
Moss famous, “It’s not for everybody, and I didn’t know if it was going to be for me, but lately, I think it is. I have no idea how I want to do it though, or what the plan is.”
The Emmy winner confessed that a part of the “problem” used to be that she had no time for relationship, explaining she used to be “very focused on [her] work, so it’s difficult to find the time to give yourself to somebody.”
4 years later, Moss printed that she nonetheless deliberate on welcoming a kid into her existence after having this sort of shut bond along with her mother, Linda Moss, a musician.
“I definitely want to have kids because I’ve been very inspired by the kind of mother my mom is,” Elisabeth shared with You mag in April 2022. “She did a beautiful thing with me.”
The previous Mad Males superstar joked that each time she had a child of her personal, she would “give the child to my mom and she can raise it because she’d do it very well!”
Elisabeth’s position as June Osborne/Offred on The Handmaid’s Story additionally ready her for motherhood — even if her personality at the display is compelled to have youngsters underneath dystopian rule. She prior to now printed that one of the vital toughest scenes for her to shoot used to be her bare birthing scene in season 2.
“People kept asking me, ‘Are you OK? This must be really hard for you!’” she recalled all through an look on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! in August 2019. “I was like, ‘You know I’m not really giving birth, right?’ Like, ‘I think this is really easier than actually giving birth!’”
Elisabeth printed that probably the most uncomfortable section used to be running with the newborn who needed to appear to be a new child. To reach the correct “guck” that a child has after supply, she mentioned, “They put cream cheese and jelly on the baby.”
Now not best used to be the newborn “not having it,” however Elisabeth remembered that the concoction “smelled.”
Regardless of its darkish tale strains and sophisticated birthing scenes, Elisabeth instructed Kimmel she felt satisfied to paintings on this sort of robust display. “It’s important to us. We love it, it’s an incredible opportunity,” she added. “And I think that for us, it’s a great challenge but very, very fulfilling.”