{"id":723842,"date":"2026-06-24T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723842\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:21:09","slug":"tracee-ellis-ross-addresses-pregnancy-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723842\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracee Ellis Ross Addresses Pregnancy Speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/tracee_ellis_ross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tracee Ellis Ross<\/a> is shutting down this American fiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After rumors circulated that the Black-ish actress was expecting her first baby, she cheekily addressed speculation while promoting her upcoming Broadway debut in Every Brilliant Thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t have social media on my phone right now, and I kept getting texts, and people were like, &#8216;Congratulations.&#8217; I&#8217;m like, &#8216;On the play? Thank you!\u2019\u201d Ross recalled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tYbQpQdyVSc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">during a June 23 appearance on <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tYbQpQdyVSc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Tonight Show<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tYbQpQdyVSc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> <\/a>with Jimmy Fallon. \u201cWell, apparently, it&#8217;s swirling around, and it seems that people think I&#8217;m pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old mused that she found the rumor \u201chilarious,\u201d adding, \u201cI am not pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And considering Ross has never been pregnant, she joked she\u2019s completely unfamiliar with the process\u2014but not in the way you might think.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t know how you get the preggers,\u201d she added with a laugh. \u201cNow, \u2018the pregnant\u2019 I think is different from just pregnant. I know how you get pregnant. But &#8216;the pregnant&#8217; is a thing they make up online when it&#8217;s obviously a slow news day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For most of her career, Ross has been \u201chappily single,\u201d and has often had to acknowledge where she stands on the idea of having a family.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tracee Ellis Ross is shutting down this American fiction.\u00a0 After rumors circulated that the Black-ish actress was expecting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-723842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}