10-04-2025
Cecily Strong Is a Mom! Comedian Welcomes First Baby, a Girl, with Fiancé Jack: 'I Won the Lottery'
Cecily Strong is a mom!
The comedian and actress, 41, has welcomed her first baby with her fiancé Jack on April 2, sharing the exciting news on Instagram a little over a week later on Thursday, April 10.
"It's been a week and a day with my beautiful squirmy baby girl," the Schmigadoon! star captioned a sweet aerial photo of herself sleeping next to her baby girl's bassinet.
"I recognize all her little squirms and kicks from when she was on the other side of me and now I get to say 'see what I was talking about!' " Strong added. "She makes Robert De Niro faces and snorts when she is super determined on the boob. She's gonna be stronger than me in about a week. Her squeaks and sighs are my favorite noises on earth."
Without sharing her daughter's name, Strong gushed over her newborn, saying, "Born with a full head of dark hair which made me scream 'whoo hoo!' while pushing. And I've been screaming 'Whoo hoo' every day since because she's absolutely perfect and I won the lottery."
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Calling her birth story "relatively easy," Strong joked she got a "glorious epidural" but is still recovering from the pains of birth. "I guess I'll be healing for a while no matter what kind of magical thinking I did beforehand about being back on the Peloton or not eating cookies every day or whatever other hilarious ideas I may have had pre World Changing Forever Day April 2nd," she said.
The new mom says she's "so in love and so tired" calling the experience "the greatest dream but it's real."
She also took the time to praise her fiancé, saying he "is the best dad I could ever have imagined (he is a diapering/swaddling/bottle washing/breakfast cooking/medicine picker upper/tech support with Baby Brezza handling/dog cuddling so she never feels left out/breastfeeding and pumping helping pro and is at this moment wearing the baby and listening to classical music for babies) and best partner I could have imagined (this man hand fed me crispy rice from Blue Ribbon Sushi in the hospital)."
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Back in November, Strong shared she was pregnant in a lengthy Instagram post. The Saturday Night Live alum could be seen posing in the mirror with her baby bump poking through a shirt that read, "pregnant pro choice proud."
"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," Strong shared in her caption.
She continued to share her fear surrounding the upcoming election as a woman who got pregnant with the help of in vitro fertilization (IVF). "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," she wrote of the then-upcoming election.
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Strong revealed in March 2024 that she is engaged to her longtime partner, Jack, who popped the question in December 2023 after four years of dating.
"I got engaged," she told her former costar Seth Meyers during a visit to Late Night with Seth Meyers. "I know... You always said, 'No one will ever love you and you will never get married' — you were wrong!" she joked to Meyers, who teased, "I am eating my words."
She went on to explain that Jack tried to surprise her, but accidentally spoiled the proposal when he showed her his cell phone.
'One day he was like, 'I'm so inundated with emails and texts, look at this. ' And he showed me his phone, and the first text was from a friend that said, 'How did it go?! Ring emoji,' " Strong recalled. "And then, I was like. 'Oh no, should I?' And he went, 'Did you see that?' And I was like, 'I could try very hard to lie, but…' So then I knew."
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