Broad City’s Ilana Glazer is pregnant! Actress and husband David Rooklin are expecting their first child
- The comic announced her happy news with some stunning portraits and an interview with Entertainment Weekly
- Her pregnancy reveal comes as she’s preparing to release her film False Positive, which is about a woman’s unsettling experience with IVF
- Ilana called the coincidence ‘eerie and cosmically funny’
- Glazer and Rooklin wed in 2017, recently celebrating their 4th anniversary
Comedienne Ilana Glazer is expecting her first child with husband Dr. David Rooklin.
The Broad City star, 33, confirmed the happy news via Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday, where she showed off her budding bump in several stunning portraits and talked about her new film, False Positive.
Though the thriller, which follows one woman’s unsettling experiences with IVF, was never planned to happen alongside her pregnancy, Ilana called the coincidence ‘eerie and cosmically funny.’
Starting a family! Ilana Glazer and husband Dr. David Rooklin are expecting their first child together. Seen in 2019 together above
‘This was not supposed to happen this way, but it’s just so eerie and cosmically funny that it has,’ star/screenwriter Glazer said about being pregnant for the movie’s June 25th release on Hulu.
‘I’m lucky; I’m in control, unlike our protagonist. I don’t feel like I’m having the rug pulled out from under me in any way.’
And Ilana said she was lucky to have an amazing support system to rely on, not ‘afraid to ask a billion questions’ to her friends and family with kids.
‘There are certain trends in society of how pregnancy should look — the “shoulda coulda wouldas” that are put on women all the time but are so amplified in pregnancy.
Thriller: Her pregnancy news comes as the star prepares to release her movie False Positive (above,) which is about a woman’s frightening experience with IVF
Eerie: ‘This was not supposed to happen this way, but it’s just so eerie and cosmically funny that it has,’ Glazer said about being pregnant for the movie’s June 25th release on Hulu. Co-star Pierce Brosnan, who plays the OB/GYN, is seen above
‘I’m specifically seeking out the most spiritually healthy and welcoming experience,’ she went on.
Ilana explained how she sees False Positive – which also stars Justin Theroux and Pierce Brosnan – as a way to explore the fear and anxiety women deal with during pregnancy and birth, saying the piece is partly ‘about how the patriarchy is expressed through medicine.’
The politically-active star told EW: ‘The process of birth is so traumatic and painful, and yet it’s the most miraculous, surreal, real thing.
‘It’s like this perfect canvas for the paradox that is our country.’
True love: Ilana and scientist husband David celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary this past Sunday. She called him her ‘partner for life’ in a February Instagram (above)
Ilana and scientist husband David celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary this past Sunday.
Though the couple keep their relationship private, the Rough Night actress boasted about her love on Instagram last month, sharing a shot of David with the caption ‘my partner for life.’
In 2014, The New Yorker described Rooklin as ‘a scientist doing postdoctoral work in molecular modelling at N.Y.U.’ and ‘A trim clean-cut white man in his thirties.’