I’ve never done a maternity photoshoot, and sometimes, looking at other people’s adorable pictures of their bumps with their partners, I can’t help but regret it.
That’s how I felt when I saw actor and Broadway star Beanie Feldstein’s maternity shoot — and pregnancy announcement! — with her wife Bonnie-Chance Roberts. Honestly, after their dreamy and incredibly Jewish summer camp wedding, I should’ve expected it to be this perfect.
“Limited Edition Scouse Beanie Baby coming soon!!” Feldstein, 32, shared on Instagram, along with a picture of her in a pale puffed sleeved dress with delicate lace details that made her look like the epitome of a fairy princess, embracing her pregnant belly. Roberts gently cradles the bump too with an outfit that’s just as stylish: coral pants, a white eyelet button-up top and an ascot-meets-bowtie embroidered neckpiece that is true perfection. What fashion sense these two have.
Of course, the photoshoot wouldn’t be complete without a trendy pink decorated cake that announced “B + B are having a baby!”
Based on the comments on the post, this is going to be a very loved baby.
“Omg the most gorgeous [girls] and photo ever,” Feldstein’s mom, Sharon, commented on the post.
“B’sha’ah tovah beauty!!!!!” Feldstein’s “Funny Girl” understudy, Julie Benko, wrote.
“[The] universe is healing,” Feldstein’s longtime friend Ben Platt observed.
The list of celebrities with mazel tovs is too long to share here, but it includes Olivia Wilde (who directed Feldstein in “Booksmart”), Billie Lourd, Uzo Aduba, Jessica Barden, Kaitlyn Dever, Ariana Grande, Rachel Zegler, Amanda Seyfried, Joey King, Audra McDonald and Michelle Buteau.
Feldstein is already a super devoted aunt to four. Earlier in her career, she often shared cute pictures with her late brother Jordan’s two sons, Joshua and Charlie. In 2020, she kvelled on Instagram about Joshua’s bar mitzvah. Her brother Jonah welcomed his first child, a son, in the summer on 2023 — right around the time of Beanie and Bonnie’s wedding, which explains his absence from the ceremony. He recently revealed that he welcomed another child earlier this year, and we’re sure he’ll have plenty of newborn tips for the expecting mother.
The actress, who has been vocal about her experience with grief after Jordan’s death in 2017 at age 40, also recently worked with kids at Experience Camps, a camp for kids who are dealing with loss and grief. “I thought I had a heart that was pretty decently sized, but it just grew in an unbelievable way in seven days. This camp changed my soul. I want other people to feel it too,” she wrote of the experience.
And of course, Beanie learned from the best about motherhood — she once called her mother, Sharon, or Shay, “the queen of the world” and said that “my mom cares about everything and taught me to care about everything.”
B’sha’ah tovah, Beanie and Bonnie! Hope the rest of the pregnancy is smooth sailing, pu pu pu.
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