Kerry Washington welcomes a baby girl
The Scandal star and her husband have welcomed their first child. Check out the name they chose.
Kerry Washington had her baby!
TMZ got the "very secret" scoop, and now it's all over the Internet: The Scandal actress and her hubby, former NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha, welcomed a baby girl on April 21, in Los Angeles. Yes, they managed to keep it quiet for two weeks, amazingly.
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And the baby's name is... Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha.
This is the first child for Kerry, 37, and Nnamdi, 32. They tied the knot last June, and news broke out of their pregnancy in October.
As TMZ points out, this is "good news for Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes... no more shooting from the neck up or hiding Olivia Pope behind potted plants." Ha!
Off to update our Who's Pregnant in Hollywood gallery. See you there!
Congrats to the family!
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Haley Overland is a writer/editor at Today's Parent. Our resident celebrity queen, she dishes out all the sweetest scoop on celebrity families at our Celebrity Candy blog. She has interviewed celeb moms like Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba and Jillian Michaels, and has shared her expertise on CTV’s ETalk. Haley also has an award-winning personal blog, CheatyMonkey.com, where she writes about everything from motherhood to yoga, her dog “Betty White” and what it's like to be Clive Owen's girlfriend. Haley has two kids, whom she fondly refers to online as “The Monkey” and “The Rascal.”