Cecily Strong Is Pregnant, Expecting First Baby with Fiancé as She Opens Up About Fertility Struggles: 'Let's All Please Vote'

The comedian announced her engagement to her partner in March 2024

Cecily Strong is going to be a mom!

The Saturday Night Live star, 40, is pregnant, expecting her first baby with her fiancé Jack, sharing the happy news in a lengthy Instagram post on Friday, Nov. 1. The comedian can be seen posing in the mirror with her baby bump poking through a shirt that reads, "pregnant pro choice proud."

"A couple years ago I did a piece on SNL as Goober the Clown who had an abortion the day before her 23rd birthday. I’m happy to report that same clown is now very happily pregnant from IVF at 40," the soon-to-be mom shared in her caption.

She continued in her caption to share her fear surrounding the upcoming election as a woman who got pregnant with the help of in vitro fertilization (IVF). "It’s kind of insane and scary to disclose all of this. But for me- it’s much scarier to think about what could happen after Tuesday’s election," she wrote.

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"Let’s all please vote to protect and uplift and support all of us that share or have shared those waiting rooms together. And for the future ones like the little miss thing I’m really really hopeful I’ll get to meet next spring," she concluded the post.

The comedian revealed in March 2024 that she's engaged to her longtime partner, Jack, who popped the question in December 2023 after four years of dating.

"I got engaged," she told her former costar Seth Meyers during a visit to Late Night with Seth Meyers. "I know... You always said, ‘No one will ever love you and you will never get married' — you were wrong!" she joked to Meyers, who teased, "I am eating my words."

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She went on to explain that Jack tried to surprise her, but accidentally spoiled the proposal when he showed her his cell phone.

“One day he was like, ‘I’m so inundated with emails and texts, look at this. ' And he showed me his phone, and the first text was from a friend that said, ‘How did it go?! Ring emoji,' " Strong recalled. "And then, I was like. ‘Oh no, should I?’ And he went, ‘Did you see that?’ And I was like, ‘I could try very hard to lie, but…’ So then I knew."

Strong has kept details about her romance out of the public eye, including Jack's full name.