Eva Mendes wore dresses with prints that prevented everyone from seeing her belly.
Although it’s a beautiful and unique process, announcing a pregnancy isn’t something every woman is comfortable with, especially celebrities, who are often the center of attention. Breaking such news can cause them a lot of stress as a result of having the press and the fans on their backs.
That’s why it’s not surprising that several celebrities have decided to keep this a secret …
Here, we tell you the reasons why these 10 stars hid the fact that they were expecting:
1. Anna Kournikova
When the former Russian tennis player got pregnant in 2017 with her partner Enrique Iglesias, they both decided to hide it. However, it wasn’t so easy to do because Anna was expecting no other than twins. As could be expected, rumors and speculations began to spread rapidly, especially when Kournikova only posted photos from her Facebook on her social networks.
There were even rumors of surrogacy, which Anna ended shortly after her babies were born, posting this photo of her pregnancy.
She also kept the pregnancy of her third child a secret. She did all this to keep the peace for her and her baby.
2. Kylie Jenner
As a member of a family as public as the Kardashians, Kylie managed to keep her pregnancy in strict secrecy very well. Her plan with Travis Scott, her partner at the time, was to record the process and release it in the rapper’s documentary shortly after. They wanted everything to be surprise.
And they succeeded. While there were speculations about it, these were only confirmed as true when Kylie posted a video on her social networks confirming that Stormi Webster, her first daughter, had been born. Before that, she only posted old pictures of her as if they were current.
3. Karla Souza
The Mexican actress kept her pregnancy hidden from the media between 2017 and 2018. She even gave interviews with her little belly, but nobody noticed. She wanted to have a quiet pregnancy, which is why she waited until three months after her daughter was born to post a picture of her pregnancy to announce that she had been a mother. Shortly later, she posted her first image with little Gianna.
4. Rachel McAdams
After being in a two-year relationship with Jamie Linden, Rachel became pregnant and decided to rest to be able to focus on the process, since she was 39 when she became a mother. During those months, she turned away from the public eye and even missed the premiere of “Game Night”, a film she had recently worked on.
5. Cameron Diaz
As Cameron Diaz had told the media a bunch of times that being a mother wasn’t her priority, the birth of little Raddix Madden at 47 came as a surprise. Besides, she tried to hide her pregnancy at all costs. Although she was caught on a couple of occasions by the paparazzi, she never confirmed her pregnancy and only did so on January 3, 2020 when she announced it through her Instagram account – without any pictures of the little girl – that she and her husband Benji had become parents.
6. Eva Mendes
In 2014, Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling used to go out for walks holding hands, sometimes alone and other times with their dogs, like any couple would do. However, from one moment to another they stopped, and then the rumors began. Determined to hide her pregnancy, the actress was seen in public only once, when she presented a clothing collection that carried her name. On that occasion, she strategically wore two dresses: one had a geometric print and a baggy skirt that didn’t give away her belly, and the other had a floral print that would hide any bulge. She also carried a bag that she placed several times on her belly to conceale it.
During her second pregnancy, she made sure to do exactly the same thing, because she wanted to carry out her pregnancy in an intimate and relaxed environment.
7. Adele
Adele did everything she could to hide her pregnancy: she wore baggy clothes and tried not to be photographed by the paparazzi. While she managed to keep her secret for several months, the news came to light in June 2012, just two months before her baby was born.
8. Alexis Bledel
Alexis Bledel is one of those actresses who knows perfectly how to keep her life private, just like her husband, actor Vincent Kartheiser. This is why no one suspected her pregnancy in 2015. Ultimately, it was her representative who announced that they had had a baby, which until now remains a complete stranger because there are no photos of her.
9. Khloé Kardashian
Although in 2018 everyone was already speculating that Khloé Kardashian was pregnant, the young businesswoman tried to keep it a secret as long as she could to avoid taking the spotlight away from her sister, Kylie, who was also expecting a baby and doing everything she could to hide it. Although Khloé hid this with baggy clothes, when her belly began to feel like too much, she decided she couldn’t cover up such cuteness any longer and posted images on social media.
10. Zoe Saldaña
The actress and her husband, Marco Perego, already had twins, Cy Aridio and Bowie Ezio, when in 2016, Saldaña announced that they were expecting a third child: Zen. However, this time she stayed out of the public eye so as to avoid being photographed, so there would no images of her pregnancy. Shortly after, Zoe explained that she and Marc had decided to conceive the child by alternative methods and that she hadn’t carried the child in her womb.