Talk about a red-carpet debut: Vanessa Hudgens snuck a surprise plus-one into the Oscars 2024, where she sported a black long-sleeve Vera Wang couture dress accessorized with Chopard jewelry—and a very visible baby bump. Hudgens confirmed that she and husband Cole Tucker are expecting their first child together.
Hudgens is cohosting the ABC’s official preshow red-carpet coverage this year alongside Julianne Hough. Her reveal comes about three months after she and Tucker, a professional baseball player who is signed to the Seattle Mariners organization and is currently playing with the Albuquerque Isotopes, got married in Tulum, Mexico, in December 2023. The two began dating in 2020.
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Hudgens, 35, spoke on the podcast She Pivots earlier this week about pregnancy rumors and discussion of her body, calling out commentary around photos of her on a bachelorette getaway with pals in October 2023.
“I literally just had a run-in with the public taking control over their opinion of me in a way that was disrespectful,” she said on the pod. “And I was like, ‘That is so rude.’ I’m sorry I don’t wear Spanx every day and, like, am a real woman and have a real body.”
The High School Musical alum added that she thinks there’s “nothing wrong about being pregnant, obviously” and said she “can’t wait for the day.” That day, it appears, has come.
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