12 Celebrities Who Stored Their Pregnancies a Secret

Provided that celebrities already stay a high-profile life, it is smart that whereas a few of them are blissful to announce their pregnancies, others select to maintain the large information below wraps. Similar to us common individuals, generally 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 method I knew how.”

As a few of our favourite celebrities have confirmed, it is potential to maintain the information a secret up till supply. A number of the births beneath had been speculated about however by no means confirmed, and others got here as an entire, blissful shock to followers. Beneath, revisit among the finest secret (or tremendous quiet) celeb pregnancies and start bulletins.

Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott

Arguably essentially the most well-known case of the key celeb 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 the whole expertise which provided a glimpse of her labor and supply. 

In keeping with 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 bought pregnant. And it was only a lot for me, personally,” Jenner defined in 2021. (She was 20 when Stormi was born.) “I didn’t understand how I might carry that to the general public too and have, you realize, everybody’s opinions. I believe 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 hold the expertise non-public got here from a “place of safety” for herself and her son. 

“There was no method in hell I used to be going to share the most important pleasure of my world with anybody. Halo was my reward,” she mentioned. “He’s the best blessing, and I had no obligation to show 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 right now.

Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden

The actress and musician (of Good Charlotte) secretly welcomed not one however two youngsters, 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 blissful he’s right here!” The mother and father are very protecting of their youngsters and don’t share images of their faces, as they famous within the caption. “For the children’ security and privateness we received’t be posting any footage – 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. To start with, 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 most effective 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 in the course of 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 discovered rather a lot from it. Undoubtedly like a as soon as in a lifetime kind of factor.” Kaling has additionally by no means disclosed the daddy(s) or her youngsters, however she does publicly check 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 youngsters. 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 similar 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 discovered their surrogate had change into pregnant with a second child—which meant Teigen was truly pregnant similtaneously 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 reward you may have given us, Alexandra,” she wrote. “And we’re so blissful 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 sequence Paris in Love.

“My life has been so public, so on the market. I didn’t need my son to return into this world with any detrimental power,” Hilton defined of her choice to maintain the information tremendous, tremendous non-public till Phoenix was born through surrogate. “I’m actually blissful I did it that method, 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, asserting the arrival of daughter Kodi after her start. In keeping with 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 all people 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 Music

Culkin and Music stored the information of each pregnancies as non-public as potential; they introduced the start of their first son, Dakota, in 2021, telling Esquire that they had been “overjoyed” by the arrival. (Dakota is known as 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 individuals.”

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 newborn’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 Self-importance Honest, 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 suppose you ever could be a excellent father or mother, however I wish to be the most effective mother for her that I might 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 pageant, however neither actor has ever spoken publicly about their little one. We do know that the kid is known as River after Phoenix’s late brother, actor River Phoenix.

Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling

The celeb couple’s second daughter, Amada, was born in April 2016, shocking followers. Whereas Mendes had been photographed sporadically throughout her being pregnant, she was typically lined 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 infrequently share updates about their youngsters.

Ashley Olsen and Louis Eisner

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