Cecily Strong is going to be a mom!
On Friday (November 1), the 40-year-old Saturday Night Live alum announced that she and fiancé Jack are expecting their first child together.
In her announcement post shared on Instagram, Cecily opened up about her fear surrounding the upcoming election as a woman who got pregnant through the help of in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Keep reading to find out more…“A couple years ago I did a piece on SNL as Goober the Clown who had an abortion the day before her 23rd birthday,” Cecily started. “I’m happy to report that same clown is now very happily pregnant from IVF at 40.”
“It’s kind of insane and scary to disclose all of this. But for me- it’s much scarier to think about what could happen after Tuesday’s election,” Cecily continued. “I currently live in a state where I will be able to receive all the healthcare I may possibly need. But we won’t be safe anywhere in the US if there is national ban like the one promised by Project 2025. The Supreme Court has already decided it’s ok to let some of us die depending on our geography and the current Republican nominee brags about being responsible for that Supreme Court decision.”
She went on, “I’ve been in lots of waiting rooms with other women throughout my life. Feeling terrified and lonely all those years ago at a clinic in California, to feeling frustrated and anxious in fertility offices in New York the past couple of years, to giddily talking everyone’s ear off and wishing everyone around me good luck like I was Forrest Gump the day of my transfer. I’ve had a friend sit with me and give me the biggest hug after my abortion at 23, only for me to sit with her and give her the biggest hug 17 years later after a difficult pregnancy loss. I had family and strangers reach out after Goober and tell me of their own experiences- some of whom had never shared with anyone before.”
“I’ve seen so many women in these waiting rooms going through their own struggles and journeys with their reproductive health and family planning and bodily autonomy,” Cecily added. “Some look relieved. Some look excited. Some look fearful. Some look like they are carrying the deep sadness of prior losses and the even deeper hope of some good news finally. Some look as simply dumbstruck happy to be there as me as Forrest Gump on my transfer day. But the one thing nobody in those rooms has ever looked is unable to make her own decisions.”
Cecily concluded, “Let’s all please vote to protect and uplift and support all of us that share or have shared those waiting rooms together. And for the future ones like the little miss thing I’m really really hopeful I’ll get to meet next spring.”
The Schmigadoon! actress announced that she was engaged to Jack back in March.
Congrats to the parents-to-be! Check out all of the other stars that also recently announced that they were expecting.
