Kelli Giddish Is Pregnant with Her Third Baby — and Her ‘Law & Order’ Character Is Expecting Too!
Kelli Giddish deserves our best wishes! Law and Order: A spokesperson for the Special Victims Unit actress has confirmed that she is expecting her third child.This will be Giddish and husband Beau Richards’s first child together. The two married in November 2021. The baby will join sons Ludo, 7, and Charlie, 4 — whom she shares with ex-husband Lawrence Faulborn.
Her happy news comes as fans speculated Giddish might be expecting after her Law & Order character, Amanda Rollins, showed up with a baby bump on an episode of Law & Order: Organized Crime earlier this month. Giddish’s previous two pregnancies were written into the show.
Friend and New York Fashion Week creator Fern Mallis also posted a picture with a visibly pregnant Giddish on Tuesday. “A perfect closing to a perfect #memorialdayweekend,” Mallis wrote, adding “a very pregnant @kelligiddish joined us!” Giddish recently returned to Law & Order: SVU as her character NYPD detective Amanda Rollins.
During her pregnancy with Ludo, Giddish talked about filming the show while pregnant and shared how she was the first actress on the show whose real-life pregnancy was mirrored in her character’s arc.
“[Mariska Hargitay] had somebody come in…I looked it up—I looked up when I first got pregnant what other TV shows did and,” she told E! News in 2015. “I guess on The X-Files, she went away. She got abducted by aliens,” Giddish said with a laugh. “So I was like, ‘That can’t happen on SVU. Can’t pitch that idea.’ ”
View this post on Instagram
“I feel so comfortable in their hands,” Giddish said of the writers on SVU.“I am so excited about things going on in my personal life and kind of the mirroring of what’s going on in my personal life and in Rollins’, there’s a lot of joy to be experienced,” she told Variety.
“I started playing her in my late 20s, so I’ve played her in three decades of my life, which is nuts. It’s insane,” she added. “This is a show unlike any other. Shows don’t last 12 years, much less getting to play a character. With playing someone as multifaceted as Rollins, I got to play all kinds of different things — down and out, on top, joyful, doubtful, scared, triumphant. I got to do the gambit.”
