Kerry Washington, Scandal Star is Pregnant!
Hollywood actress, Kerry Washington, 36, and her husband, NFL player Nigerian born Nnamdi Asomugha, 31, are expecting their first child after getting married quietly with no celebrity fanfare on June 24.
A Source close to the couple said that the “Scandal” star and her husband are ecstatic about the news but likely wouldn’t have discussed her big news, if not for an appearance on Saturday Night Live this weekend, “she didn’t want the focus to be on whether or not she has a bump.”
Despite the news, “Kerry will still absolutely be keeping her private life private,” the source who also revealed that the baby will be due in late spring said.
However, when asked about the news, a representative of Washington, who was recently named PEOPLE’s best-dressed woman of 2013, said, “We do not comment on her personal life.”
Washington, who is known for keeping mum about her personal life, shocked many when she secretly wed San Francisco 49s cornerback Asomugha in Hailey, Idaho, four months ago. The couple had quietly dated outside of the spotlight.
“If I told you, I’d have to kill you,” Washington later joked to reporters when pressed for details on the wedding.
But the actress, who had previously been engaged to actor David Moscow, may have inadvertently given up a few clues about her pregnancy when she showed up on the set of Scandal in early October wearing her husband’s oversize sweatshirt.
Washington, who plays political fixer Olivia Pope on the hit ABC drama, had spoken previously about her need to nurture her relationships out of the spotlight, telling Glamour magazine, “I learned through experience that it doesn’t work for me to talk about my personal life.”