Cecily Strong is expecting her first child: ‘Very happily pregnant from IVF at 40’

Cecily Strong is preparing to welcome a new member to her family.

The “Saturday Night Live” alum announced in a Friday Instagram post that she is “very happily pregnant from IVF at 40” and “really hopeful” to meet her “little miss thing” next spring. In the first photo, she is wearing a “pregnant, pro-choice and proud” shirt.

In a lengthy caption, Strong revealed it felt “insane and scary to disclose all of this” and took the opportunity to encourage Americans to vote in Tuesday’s general elections.

“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,” she wrote. “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.”

“I currently live in a state where I will be able to receive all the healthcare I may possibly need. But we won’t be safe anywhere in the US if there is (a) national ban like the one promised by Project 2025,” she added. “The Supreme Court has already decided it’s ok to let some of us die depending on our geography and the current Republican nominee brags about being responsible for that Supreme Court decision.”

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Trump has attempted to distance himself from Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page political playbook from conservative advocacy groups including the Heritage Foundation that lays out a road map for the first six months of a potential second Trump administration. Many of his allies and former administration officials were involved in drafting the blueprint, which proposes banning drugs used in medication abortions,

Strong reflected on the waiting rooms she has found herself in while seeking various reproductive health services.

“I’ve seen so many women in these waiting rooms going through their own struggles and journeys with their reproductive health and family planning and bodily autonomy. Some look relieved. Some look excited. Some look fearful. Some look like they are carrying the deep sadness of prior losses and the even deeper hope of some good news finally,” she wrote.

“Some look as simply dumbstruck happy to be there as me as Forrest Gump on my transfer day. But the one thing nobody in those rooms has ever looked is unable to make her own decisions,” she continued. “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.”

Strong — who was part of “SNL’s” cast from 2012 to 2022, with a brief stint as a “Weekend Update” co-anchor — performed in her final episode in December 2022. She also starred in 2016’s “Ghostbusters” and was a voice actor in “The Garfield Movie.” Earlier this year, she had a lead role in the New York theater production of the romcom “Brooklyn Laundry.”

Contributing: George Fabe Russell, USA TODAY Network