Laura Linney, 52, on her secret pregnancy: I just didnt advertise it
Laura Linney was on Live with Kelly on Friday, when Kelly cohosted with her husband, Mark Consuelos. (I’m still taping that show but it’s filling up my DVR so I may have to rethink that. It’s one of those shows I might need for my job so I just save too many of them.) Laura is promoting her role on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of The Shadows, which seems unfortunate given her level of talent and experience. It’s probably a nice paycheck though and I can’t begrudge her that.
Laura is a normal person who doesn’t say batsh*t things like her co-star Megan Fox, but she knows how to get headlines when necessary. Kelly Ripa asked her about her “secret” pregnancy, two and a half years ago, when she gave birth to a boy at 49 and no one knew she was even pregnant. Laura said it wasn’t secret per se and that she wasn’t in hiding or anything, she just didn’t advertise it:
When you got pregnant you kept it a secret, you were on our show and pregnant and we didn’t even know. Why did you decide to keep it a secret?
Well I was an older mother to be and it had taken me a very long time to have a child, so I wanted to make sure that my child actually arrived and was safe and healthy. So I just was very quiet about it. I didn’t hide it intentionally I just didn’t advertise it.
I was going to the theater when I was eight months pregnant and no one said a thing. When I actually had the baby this big deal was made about ‘she was secret,’ no I just didn’t have a sign that said ‘I am pregnant now.’
How is Bennett?
He’s great, he’s two and a half.
You’re lucky that nobody noticed
Well I vomited a lot. So yeah, I wasn’t huge.
[From Live with Kelly, aired June 3, 2016]
That’s so funny that she said she didn’t get big because she vomited a lot. I was looking through the photos on Getty and WENN and Laura didn’t attend any events which I can find after June, 2013. So after she was about three or four months pregnant she stopped doing red carpets, which was smart. She may have gone out, but it’s not like she deliberately went to places where she would be photographed. She’s never opened up about her fertility struggles and Laura seems to keep a lid on her personal life, so she waited until she had the baby to say anything. It’s admirable and shows that celebrities can keep their private lives under wraps when they want to. Laura also has no Instagram, Twitter or Facebook accounts which aren’t fan-run. She lives in NY and does her thing under the radar.
Laura in June, 2013:
Here’s that segment with Laura on Live with Kelly:
photos credit: WENN.com
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