“Well, there’s a baby inside of me,” she said on the April 20 episode of the SmartLess podcast. “Today was a big day. I went to the doctor’s today.”
And Aubrey joked that pregnancy made her feel some empathy for her pooch.
“My dog also went to the doctor’s,” the 41-year-old told hosts Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes. “Both of us—my dog’s getting a scan right now. I got a scan earlier. I’m not kidding. She had to get an ultrasound on her stomach.”
She added, “And then I got an ultrasound on my stomach, and there is a baby in there.”
“I’ve always wanted to see what that’s all about,” Aubrey, who debuted her baby bump April 8 while walking her dog in NYC, continued. “It just seems so interesting, that whole thing.”
While Aubrey—whose estranged husbandJeff Baenadied in January 2025—and Christopher are notoriously private about their personal life, their friendship dates back to at least 2020, when they starred alongside each other in Black Bear. Three years later, they teamed up once again in the stage production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.
“He cares but he also doesn’t care; it’s the best recipe for me for a scene partner,” Aubrey told The New York Timesin 2023. “It’s fun and it’s also good and it’s also safe. I like to just throw things out the window also and laugh and mess around and not take it so seriously. It’s a hard combo to come by.”
Meanwhile Chris emphasized their similarities, adding, “We’re both unafraid to be ugly and weird and strange.”
And he also nodded to their blossoming connection, noting of their onstage dynamic, “We want to entertain the audience, but I personally want to entertain Aubrey.”
For a closer look into Aubrey and Christopher’s road to parenthood, read on…
Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott’s onscreen relationship dates back to 2019, when the pair starred as a married couple in the second act of the indie film Black Bear.The Parks and Rec alum—who also produced the dual-storied psychological drama—described the project to The Los Angeles Times in 2021 as a “labor of love.”Part one of the movie follows filmmaker Allison (Aubrey) as she spends time at a lake house amid a bout of writer’s block, where she attempts to manipulate her married hosts Blair (Sarah Gadon) and Gabe (Christopher) to help push past her creative stall.In the film’s second part, “The Bear by the Boat House,” Allison is an actress married to director Gabe, who tortures her for his own project.”Without sharing too much from my personal life,” she explained, “I knew if I decided to do this movie, it was going to be really painful. I have worked over the years with a process of using the things that have happened in my real life, the struggles I’m going through…using it as a cathartic process.”
A few years after costarring in Black Bear, the actors went on to share the stage in the 2023 Off-Broadway production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. Working with Christopher for the show’s 11-week run was a ticket to paradise for Aubrey.”He cares but he also doesn’t care; it’s the best recipe for me for a scene partner,” she told The New York Times in September 2023. “It’s fun and it’s also good and it’s also safe. I like to just throw things out the window also and laugh and mess around and not take it so seriously. It’s a hard combo to come by.”For Christopher’s part, he couldn’t help but praise his costar. As the Girls star told the NYT of their dynamic, “We’re both unafraid to be ugly and weird and strange.”Aubrey revealed that in the early stages of Black Bear’s production, she almost sent Christopher a letter urging him to join the movie. However, she ultimately decided against it—and luckily, he signed on anyway.”In my opinion,” she told Vulture in November 2023, “he’s the best male actor in our country today.”
A Private Life in the Public Eye
Aubrey—who had been in a relationship with husband Jeff Baena for 14 years until his death in January 2025—previously reflected on navigating life in the spotlight.”Celebrity and fame and all that stuff is scary to me,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in 2021. “My reaction is to find the funny in it, even if I come out looking weird.”But it also meant that she would sometimes have to address certain aspects of her personal life, like her grief after Jeff—with whom she privately separated after more than three years of marriage—had died by suicide.She compared her grief to the horror film The Gorge while chatting with Amy Poehler on her Good Hangpodcast in August 2025, explaining that, “at all times there’s like a giant ocean of, just, awfulness that’s right there and I can see it, and sometimes I just want to dive into it, and just like be in it.”And then sometimes I just look at it,” she continued. “And then sometimes, I’m just trying to get away from it. But it’s always there. It’s just always there.”A rep for Aubrey confirmed on April 7, 2026, that the My Old Ass actress was expecting her first baby with Christopher. Soon after, she shared insight into her pregnancy journey.”Well, there’s a baby inside of me,” she said on a SmartLess podcast episode released April 20, 2026. “Today was a big day. I went to the doctor’s today.”And when it came to her thoughts on motherhood, she added, “I’ve always wanted to see what that’s all about. It just seems so interesting, that whole thing.”Aubrey and Christopher made their first public appearance as a couple two days after The To-Do List star’s pregnancy was confirmed, with them stepping out at an after-party for the Broadway opening of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, in which Christopher stars as Biff Loman.And that June, the pair made their red carpet debut as a couple at the 2026 Tony Awards, where Christopher was nominated for his role in the play.
About two weeks after Aubrey posted a selfie with her baby bump to Instagram Stories, TMZ published photos of the actress holding a newborn while attending Christopher’s final performance of Death of a Salesman in New York on Aug. 9, 2026—indicating she’d given birth.
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