Mandy Moore is showing off her baby bump for the first time!
The former “This Is Us” star shared a picture of herself in the mirror on her Instagram story June 1, joking that she doesn’t have to hide her growing belly anymore.
“Last night’s lewk. Guess I don’t have to try to camouflage anymore,” she wrote, featuring a shot of her holding her abdomen in a long cheetah-print dress.
Just a day earlier, Moore shared how her “This Is Us” co-stars reacted to the news that she was expecting her third child.
In a series of photos on Instagram May 31, her former co-stars and current co-hosts of the “That Was Us” podcast, Sterling K. Brown and Chris Sullivan, looked both shocked and excited at her pregnancy announcement.
In the snaps, Brown, who portrayed Moore’s on-screen son Randall Pearson, and Sullivan, who played her former son-in-law Toby Damon, both appeared to react in real time with a wide array of facial expressions.
In the first photo, Brown covered his mouth with his hands and Sullivan looked shocked, while Moore just sat and smiled. In the second snap, Brown had his mouth agape and Sullivan smiled as Moore laughed. The last frame featured Brown embracing Moore in a hug while Sullivan sat back and smiled at the duo.
Moore penned a touching note in the caption about the moment, writing, “When telling the fam your big news is captured on film.”
Brown reacted to the news in the comment section, writing, “You got me good!!!! Congratulations, my friend!!!!”
The official Instagram account for the rewatch podcast also shared a sweet comment as a nod to the show, writing, “There’s about to be a new big three in town!”
Moore initially announced that she’s pregnant with her third baby while paying homage to her hit show, “This is Us.”
She posted an image of her sons Gus, 3, and Ozzie, 1, on Instagram wearing T-shirts that say, “Big” and “Middle.” Moore captioned the image with a reference to her hit show “This Is Us,” which ran from 2016 to 2022, “Sometimes life imitates art. The third in our own Big Three coming soon. Can’t wait for these boys to have a baby sister.”
In addition to receiving love from Brown and Sullivan face-to-face, she was showered with love from her former co-stars in the comment section of her announcement post.
“Mannnnndyyyyyy!!! Awwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! Congratulations!!!” Chrissy Metz, who portrayed her on-screen daughter Kate Pearson on the show, wrote in the comments.
Susan Kelechi Watson, who portrayed Moore’s daughter-in-law Beth Pearson added, “Neither can we.”
“Congratulations,” Eris Baker, who played Moore’s granddaughter Tess Pearson, shared in the comments.
Moore shares her children with husband Taylor Goldsmith, who acts as the parent willing to dress up in crazy costumes while she makes the lunches and doctor’s appointments, she shared during an October 2023 appearance on TODAY with Hoda & Jenna.
Moore and Goldsmith, frontman for the folk-rock band Dawes, have a very musical atmosphere in their house, but she laughed that Gus isn’t always into hearing his parents sing.
Moore also addressed what it’s like to be a mom of two and said that even though its been a “wild” experience for her, she would still like to welcome more kids in the future.
“I’m one of three,” she said, “so I just can’t imagine a world without siblings, and I always knew that if I were lucky enough to have a family, I would love to have more than one. But I didn’t realize when the second came out, I’d be like, ‘I think I can do this again.’ My husband thinks I’m crazy.”
She added, “I have not closed that door.”
She certainly hasn’t.
In honor of Mother’s Day 2024, Moore wrote on an Instagram carousel with her boys and wrote that being a mother is “the greatest club and truly the most exhausting and exhilarating job I’ve ever been lucky enough to get to do.”
