Is former SNL cast member Maya Rudolph expecting another child?”
Maya Khabira Rudolph (born July 27, 1972) is an American actress and comedienne, known as a former cast member on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, and the daughter of late soul singer Minnie Riperton. Maya Rudolph was born in Gainesville, Florida, the daughter of soul singer Minnie Riperton (a.k.a. Andrea Davis) and composer, songwriter and producer Richard Rudolph. Her father is Jewish and her mother African American. She was in the studio with her mother on the day Riperton recorded “Lovin’ You”; one can hear her mother sing “Maya, Maya, Maya” to her near the end of the track. Riperton died at age 31 from cancer, short of her daughter’s seventh birthday. This death of her mother at a young age and growing up multiracial had an effect, according to a July 2001 Rosie magazine article: “My mom was black and my dad is Jewish, and I lost my mom when I was seven. That made me feel really different from other kids.” R&B Singer Teena Marie is her godmother. Rudolph and filmmaker Paul Thomas Anders
In the upcoming summer film, Away We Go, Maya Rudolph’s character is pregnant. Well, off-screen, the actress is pregnant too! The former Saturday Night Live star, 36, is expecting her second child with her partner, director Paul Thomas Anderson, she reveals in an interview slated to air Monday on ET Canada. “I wasn’t planning on sharing it, but yes I am pregnant!” she tells the show. In a nod to the irony of playing pregnant, followed by actually being pregnant, she says, “I know it’s really weird timing.” Already mom to daughter Pearl Bailey, 3 ½, Maya says her current pregnancy is “totally different” than her first one. “The first time you are like wide-eyed: ‘What are we doing?, Who’s coming?, How do we take care of them?’ But this time, I’m like I have to sit down, I’m pregnant.’” She adds, “When you have a three-and-a-half-year-old, you don’t have time to rest and nap and do all the those sweet pampering type things you did for yourself the first time. You are like, ‘I got to get
