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As Aubrey Plaza embraces her pregnancy journey with partner Christopher Abbott, she reflected on the newest phase of her life during an upcoming appearance on the SmartLess podcast.
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Aubrey Plaza's latest chapter has been a treat.
After Parks and Rec alum's rep confirmed the actress was expecting her first baby with Christopher Abbott, Aubrey shared insight into her pregnancy thus far.
"Well, there's a baby inside of me," she said on the upcoming April 20 episode of the SmartLess podcast, according to a sneak peek shared by Page Six April 13. "Today was a big day. I went to the doctor's today."
In fact, it was an, er, ruff day for the whole family.
"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."
As for how she feels about becoming a mom?
"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, said. "It just seems so interesting, that whole thing."
Aubrey's pregnancy comes more than a year after her estranged husband Jeff Baena died in January 2025.
Following Jeff's death by suicide, the actress—who married the director in 2021 after 10 years of dating—detailed her grief journey.
"Right in this very, very present moment, I feel happy to be with you," she told longtime friend Amy Poehler in August. "Overall, I'm here and I'm functioning. I feel really grateful to be moving through the world. I think I'm OK, but it's like a daily struggle, obviously."
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Aubrey even compared the experience to the sci-fi horror film The Gorge.
"In the movie, there's a cliff on one side and a cliff on the other side and there's a gorge in between and it's filled with all these monster people that are trying to get them," she said on her Good Hang podcast. "I swear when I watched it, I was like, 'That's what this feels like, what my grief is like—or what grief could be like.'"
"At all times, there's like a giant ocean of awfulness that's like right there, and I can see it," she continued. "Sometimes, I just want to dive into it and be in it. And then sometimes, I just look at it. And then sometimes, I'm just trying to get away from it. But it's always there. It's just always there."
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