10+ Celebrities Who Hid Their Pregnancies From The Media

Beyoncé and Jay-Z nearly broke the internet when the pop star announced her pregnancy during a live performance at the 2011 VMAs.

After Queen Bey had concluded her set she unbuttoned her jacket, turned to the side, and began gently caressing her now noticeable baby bump.

It wasn't up until Adele was seven months pregnant that she saw fit to make her announcement to the world. Up until that time, she was still making red carpet appearances.

She and her ex Simon made the announcement via Adele's official website.

Isla Fisher did such a good job of keeping her pregnancy under wraps that not even her Burke and Hare knew anything was amiss.

At the time, Isla was three months pregnant and battling intense morning sickness.

No one knew about Leighton and Adam's baby boy until Adam made the announcement via a Twitch live-stream event.

This is the second pregnancy that Adam and Leighton have been able to successfully keep hidden from the media.

For Eva and Ryan's second pregnancy, the famous couple was able to keep a lid on things until one month before the birth of their daughter, Amanda Lee Gosling.

Kudos to them for being able to keep such a huge secret in the age of social media.

Vincent and Alexis were able to successfully keep their pregnancy a secret. The birth of their son was announced on their terms, via Alexis' PR team.

Privacy is something that is incredibly important to both of them, and neither seems keen on mixing their family/professional lives.

Zoë and Marco hid the birth of their son Zen until they were ready to make the announcement via Zoë's Instagram. You can understand why the couple wanted to keep things private.

In 2014, Zoë was outed by Britney Spears who revealed to the media that she and Marco were pregnant with twins!

Sandra once again was able to keep the news of her (second) adoptive child a secret. Her daughter Laila was in foster care in Louisiana before she came to find Sandra.

The mother-daughter duo made an appearance on Jada Pinkett Smith's Red Table Talk.

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Lead singer/guitarist Ezra Koenig and Parks and Rec star Rashida Jones are notoriously private and never technically confirmed the news. The boy's birth certificate was discovered by the media.

Cameron and Benji made this post on January 3rd of 2020. The couple confirmed their daughter's name and made sure to mention that respecting her privacy was of their utmost concern.

I've got to say that I love the name Raddix.

Sophie and Joe welcomed their daughter Willa back in July of 2020. A few months later, Sophie began sharing never-before-seen photos of her pregnancy with her fans via Instagram.

The new parents are utterly obsessed with their newborn.

Amanda's second pregnancy was a complete and total secret. She and her husband Thomas decided to make a simultaneous birth announcement via the Instagram pages of two of their favorite charities.

Both she and Thomas encouraged their fans to set up monthly donations to help children around the world.

During a digital appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Mindy announced that she'd given birth to a beautiful healthy baby boy.

Her son was born on September 3rd and no one even knew that she was pregnant to begin with!

The only reason why anyone found out about Rooney's pregnancy and the subsequent birth of her first child is that director Victor Kossakovsky spilled the beans.

He confirmed that their son was named River, after Joaquin's late brother, at the Zurich Film Festival

Sometimes good news travels in strange ways. Although rumors had been swirling for months that Jessica was pregnant, neither she nor Justin had confirmed anything.

It was actually R&B singer and former one-hit-wonder Brian McKnight who confirmed the news via an interview with Hollywood Life.