Wednesday November 15, 2006
Pressly on The Tonight Show With Jay last night.
NBC
My Name is Earl star Jaime Pressly is four months pregnant. The actress announced the good news during a taping of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on Wednesday. She told the audience that she won't find out the sex of the child until Monday, but that her doctor joked that it's either a boy or has "a third leg."
Pressly, 29, initially denied media reports that she was pregnant because she was only one-and-a-half months along and was worried about miscarriage. "I lied and lied and lied!" she said.
So far, it's been an uneventful pregnancy, despite the usual discomfort.
"I live off Tylenol," she confided. "The mood swings you can't do anything about. You want to stab people and you don't know why! I'm still tired. You wake up sleepy."
She added: "I'm healthy, the baby's healthy, we're good."
Pressly's boyfriend of one year, deejay Eric Cubiche, proposed to the actress on October 17, but the couple has not yet set a wedding date.
"I'm not even thinking of planning a wedding right now," she said.
Pressly found out she was pregnant on September 8, after taking nine pregnancy tests to be sure. The actress tells Us Weekly, "After the first one, Eric said, 'Really? Take another one!'" She and Cubiche had been trying to have a baby for awhile.
The couple says they are planning to name the baby "Dezi James" -- even if it turns out to be a girl -- because of the couple's longstanding joke in which Cubiche calls out, "Luuuucy, I'm hooooome!" whenever he comes home, a la Desi Arnaz in the television show I Love Lucy. Also, because Cubiche, like Arnaz, is of Cuban descent.
The actress, who is due in May, says she plans to drop those post-pregnancy pounds by her next birthday on July 30th. "I want to lose the baby weight by my 30th birthday!" she tells Us. "Three weeks after I have the child I'll be back in the gym 4-5 days a week two hours at a time."
So far, there are no plans to incorporate the pregnancy into the hit NBC show.
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