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Kerry Washington Is Not Interested in Hiding Her baby Bump Taping Scandal Again

Posted on May 24, 2016

Kerry Washington didn’t appreciate all the ridiculous things she had to do to hide her pregnant belly while taping Scandal when she was pregnant with her daughter Isabelle Asomugha in 2013. This time, pregnant with her second child with her ex-NFLer husband Nnamdi Asomugha, she has told producers she won’t be returning until after she has delivered her baby.

I don’t blame her. The tricks and shenanigans executed by the production crew was the subject of a few humorous pieces by TVGuide.com, PEOPLE, E!Online, US Weekly and several other sites that jumped on the bandwagon.

Last time, her pregnancy shortened the season by 4 episodes. This times, it looks like it will shorten it by 12.

photo: Courtesy ABC

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Kerry Washington Cusps Pregnant Belly at Met Gala

Posted on May 2, 2016

Congrats to Kerry Washington and her husband Nnamdi Asomugha on expecting their second child, according to E! and Us Weekly.

This weekend, when I posted the red carpet from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, I added a couple of lines referencing the fact that her face looked full and she looked pregnant especially wearing that A-Line dress.

I guess I wasn’t the only one brimming with suspicions. This will be her second child with her ex-NFL player husband. They welcomed a daughter, Isabelle,

Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha on April 21, 2014.

Now that the secret is out, she can cusp her pregnant belly on the red carpet of tonight’s Met Gala. She is wearing Marc Jacobs.

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Kerry Washington is on every cover on your newsstand

Posted on May 8, 2015

Well, not really, but still.

Our Bellyitch alum Kerry Washington has been having a great past few weeks. I see her everywhere on covers of lots of top magazines April and May issues.

Usually, you can tell which designers she is outfitted in during magazine spreads, but scoping her Twitter stream during the airing of her top ABC show Scandal last night, I discovered that she also tweets out the designers who make the amazingly sharp and gorgeous clothes she wears on the show. It is usually in response to one of her Gladiators swooning and tweeting at her asking who made the clothing item.

Awesome! As a person who dabbles in content marketing and promotion, I think that is an excellent way to promote those labels as well. I hope she’s getting paid for it because I spotted a few pieces I’m coveting now myself. Tee hee!

Werk, Kerry!

Check out the tweets:

It’s by @maxmara -krew https://t.co/NH4B8nrUNv
— kerry washington (@kerrywashington) May 8, 2015

That coat is @BrooksBrothers #scandal WELL DONE @Zac_Posen

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Kerry Washington opens up on Motherhood and parenting a Girl

Posted on March 13, 2015

Kerry Washington is a private person but during recent interviews she has opened up quite a bit about being a parent.

In a new Marie Claire interview which was with HBO‘s Girls star and creator Lena Dunham, for example, Washington reveals what she wants for her daughter Isabella who she welcomed almost a year ago.

“I just want [Isabelle] to know that she’s heard. Really heard, because I feel like that is what we all really want. When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I’ve made, all of which I’m grateful for, it’s because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn’t or wouldn’t be. I see you, I hear you, I’m with you as you are.”

Also a recent book launch luncheon on international women’s day, Scandal star Kerry Washington revealed a bit about her feelings about motherhood.

“It’s just made my life better in every way,” the Emmy -nominated actress told PEOPLE at Sunday’s book release event for “Expecting 411.”

She and husband NFL‘s Nnamdi Asomugha plan to celebrate her first birthday on April 21.

Washington also had great things to say about the book: “This book was by my bedside the whole time I was pregnant,” Washington shared. “It’s as if your very best girlfriend was a brilliant OB and wrote a book for you.”

Last fall, Washington also shared that she has been breastfeeding her daughter and hopes to pass along a healthy lifestyle to her.

“I’ve always been a person who really approaches health in a proactive way,” the Image Award winning actress stated. “I work out, I eat right, so those are things I continued to do once my doctor said I could, but not to be crazy about it. I’m breastfeeding, so I can’t starve myself. It’s important for me to be a good mom and a good actor, and be responsible to myself and my family.”

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Community Service mamas: Kerry Washington and Zoe Saldana are good-doers

Posted on September 20, 2014

First time mom-to-be Zoe Saldana and new mom Kerry Washington were on their charity and good-doing game this week.

Kerry Washington, shared a photo of herself in a shirt with the words “It’s on Us”, a new campaign the Obama administration is promoting that encourages men and women to stop sexual assaults, especially on college campuses where it is a wide-spread occurrence.

Meanwhile, Saldana (seen above with her sister Cisely Saldana) was honored, among other Latino and Hispanic visionaries, at the Hispanic Heritage Foundation gala at the Warner Theater in Washington, DC this Thursday, September 18 and given the Vision Award for her contributions to the Latino community.

Kudos and Congrats!

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Kristen Bell, Kerry Washington meet up at Hollywood Foreign Press event

Posted on August 16, 2014

Current Bellyitch Bumpwatch mama Kristen Bell and recent alum Kerry Washington met up this week at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association‘s Grants Banquet, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California.

Washington was in a strapless paisley patterned silk Mary Katrantzou resort 2015 dress and blue pumps.

Bell, who is expecting her second child with her actor husband Dax Shepard, looked radiant in a bump-hugging midnight blue Andre GN sequinned dress with Rupert Sanderson heels and Antonini jewels. The Veronica Mars actress is mom to 15-month old Lincoln.

Washington looked to be down to her pre-baby size already after giving birth to her first child, a daughter, with hubby NFL‘s Nnamdi Asomugha in April.

Of the encounter, Bell tweeted compliments to Kerry:

If I hadn’t married @daxshepard1 I probably would have proposed to @kerrywashington. Because she is simply the best. pic.twitter.com/000MAlpV2k

— Kristen Bell (@IMKristenBell) August 15, 2014

Bell told US Weekly that for this pregnancy, she has learned to reign in the cravings by avoiding refined sugars.

“I mean, I still crave food in general but I’m not like waking up with a starve, going, ‘I need dark chocolate!'”

She also shared that this pregnancy is precisely like her previous one only this round, she is chasing a toddler at the same time.

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Kerry Washington & 11 Other Celebs who never announced their baby news to press

Posted on May 2, 2014

So the news today is that Scandal star gave birth to her and husband Nnamdi Asomugha first child together, daughter, Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha TWO WEEKS AGO on April 21.

Congrats!

Figures though, right? She never told anyone she was engaged, never publicly acknowledged she was married before getting hitched and so this makes sense to conceal this news about the birth at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, that TMZ uncovered today.

She would not be the first to attempt to just keep it all hush hush.

Actress Neve Campbell never announced when she birthed her first child with hubby JJ Feild in August 2012 until paparazzi captured the family at a park and the baby looked to be about a month old!

Later that year, Megan Fox waited almost a month to announce in October that she had given birth in mid September.

But singer Dido takes the cake! The British crooner welcomed her first child in the summer of 2011 but didn’t mention a baby until 6 months later in a tweet in December that year! We hypothesized that maybe it was our query that perhaps prompted the UK Daily Mail to inquire.

And of male stars, actor Michael Ealy randomly mentioned during an interview on the Steve Harvey show this February that he and his wife of two years had a kid. And the kid is like a few years old.

Same deal with singer Pharell and his wife, Helen. We only recently started seeing pics of his son Rocket Man who is now 5 years old.

Not just births either.

Jennifer Hudson never revealed she was pregnant ever. A wayward cameraman accidentally discovered it when she was about 8 months along.

Same deal with actress Evageline Lily. She too was hiding away in Hawaii to avoid the prodding press when she got busted in her 7 or 8th month trying to avoid the “bumpwatch!”

Adele, Megan Fox, Drew Barrymore and January Jones all never confirmed their pregnancies either until their news leaked when they were well into their pregnancies.

And Now you know it’s not that unheard of that some celebs actually value privacy in these matters. Ha!

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Speculation: Kerry Washington is due any day now

Posted on April 4, 2014

Kerry Washington is probably term and set to deliver her baby any day now, according to speculators.

The third season of her hit show Scandal just wrapped and was shortened from 22 to 18 weeks to accommodate the star. It makes sense then that her due date, not previously announced, is upon us.

And then she missed the season wrap party.

“Super sad to have missed the #ScandalWrapParty a night out with my #Scandal fam but very grateful to be getting some much needed rest! Xo,” Washington tweeted on Twitter this Sunday, March 31.

Super sad to have missed the #ScandalWrapParty & a night out with my #Scandal fam but very grateful to be getting some much needed rest! Xo

— kerry washington (@kerrywashington) March 31, 2014

And…

Actor Malik Yoba, rapper MC Lyte, horee Veranda Dickens pose with Common and Asomugha

As the sleuths at the website CocoaFab.com reported, Washington also missed an event where her husband Nnamdi Asomugha got honored for his philanthropic efforts by rapper Common‘s organization, The Common Ground Foundation‘s Gala of Gratitude at the Millenium Park hotel in Chicago, Illinois.

(Side note: It could have been an awkward moment too considering Washington and Common were once romantically linked. Anyone ever notice that Common’s video for “I want you” featured three women he reportedly and really dated in the past: Washington, Serena Williams, and Alicia Keya.)

Anyway we can’t wait to hear news about the birth of new baby Asomugha.

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How Scandal producers hid Kerry Washington’s baby bump

Posted on March 17, 2014

Kerry Washington is soon to be a mommy but to pull off her role as a non- pregnant Olivia Pope in Scandal season 3 producers used TV tricks, strategically-placed handbags and other creative maneuvers to keep the story line intact.

Hello Beautiful compiled a list of 15 scenes from “Scandal” season 3, episode 13 (which aired on ABC on Thursday, March 13) showing the unique ways producers covered Washington’s bump.

How smart!! Check out the list of scenes and descriptors HERE!

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Kerry Washington & celeb moms rock the 7th Annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon (PHOTOS)

Posted on March 1, 2014

Mom-to-be Kerry Washington and some of our past Bellyitch Bumpwatch moms and other mothers looked absolutely radiant gracing the red carpet and ballroom of the Beverly Hilton for the Essence magazine 7th Annual Black Women in Hollywood Awards luncheon.

The event honored Lupita Nyong’o, filmmaker and first African American woman to win the Sundance Best Director award Ava DuVernay and film marketing exec Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

This is my absolute FAVORITE look of all time on Washington this award-season and pregnancy. That cobalt blue Calvin Klein off the shoulder asymmetrical sheath dress matched perfectly with her complexion. The loose ringlets fell perfectly along her face with the matte look and soft nude lips. I loved the simple black Jimmy Choo pumps. And the Emm Kuo clutch set off the look perfectly. She accented the ensemble with an EF Collection ring and House of Lavande earrings. Lovely!

Other red carpet moms bringing the bright reds, roses and oranges included:

Brandy, Tamar Mowry-Housley, Salli Richardson and Garcelle Beauvais

Looking fab in White, Black, Grey and Neutrals was …

Holly Robinson-Peete, Laila Ali, Chaka Khan and Regina King

Essence had a photo booth on site where guests did cute and fun poses…

Garcelle Beauvais, Salli Richardson, Regina King and Vanessa Bell Calloway; Niecy Nash, Tichina Arnold does over the top diva; Laila Ali frames the picture and Holly Robinson-Pete gives pretty face time.

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