Aubrey Plaza is pregnant with her first child just over a year after the tragic death of her husband Jeff Baena.
A source confirmed to the Daily Mail that the White Lotus star, 41, is expecting a child with her new partner, Christopher Abbott, 40.
The baby, whose gender has not been revealed, is due in the fall.
‘It was a beautiful surprise after an emotional year,’ a source told People of the pregnancy news on Tuesday.
Plaza and Abbott, who previously costarred on Broadway before falling in love, are said to be feeling ‘very blessed.’
Abbott is best known for playing the on–off boyfriend of Allison Williams’s character Marnie on Lena Dunham’s influential HBO comedy Girls.
The couple first worked together in 2019 on the indie psychological drama Black Bear, in which both actors played dual roles as actors and directors trying to shoot a film in an eerie, isolated lake house.
The low-budget thriller premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020 to critical acclaim, with several reviewers singling it out as one of Plaza’s best roles to date.
She worked again with Abbott in 2023 — this time on stage — in the Off Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s play Danny And The Deep Blue Sea, which ran into January 2024.
Plaza and her new partner were last seen together on February 14 when they attended Khaite’s Fall/Winter 2026 show as part of New York Fashion Week. The two were pictured sitting side-by-side in the front row alongside stars including Elizabeth Debicki and Gemma Chan.
Prior to revealing her pregnancy, the Parks And Recreation star had managed to keep her relationship with Abbott under the radar.
According to DeuxMoi, a source had spotted Plaza and Abbot looking affectionate at the Chatham Berry Farm, which is a two-and-a-half-hour drive outside of New York City, in June 2025, five months after the death of Plaza’s estranged husband.
They claimed that Plaza was spotted speaking to a woman whom they later learned was Abbott’s older sister, Christina Abbot, and she went on to post on Instagram in June about a performance at the Chatham Berry Farm.
Plaza’s new romance and baby news follow a tragic 2025, in which her estranged husband Jeff Baena died by suicide on January 3.
It was subsequently reported that the couple had separated four months before his untimely death.
