With her grand return to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, viewers have questions about if Kelli Giddish is pregnant in real life.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — also known as SVU — is NBC’s procedural drama series following detectives’ personal and professional lives at the New York Police Department’s 16th precinct’s Special Victims Unit, which investigates and prosecutes various sexually oriented crimes.
Giddish plays Amanda Rollins, a detective with the Manhattan special Victims Unit, who joined SVU in Season 13 and left in Season 24. In an interview with Variety in December 2022, Giddish explained why she left SVU after almost a decade on the series. “I started playing her in my late 20s, so I’ve played her in three decades of my life, which is nuts. It’s insane,” she said.
Giddish made her grand return as Rollish in Season 24, Episode 21, “Bad Things” — and to the squad’s surprise, she was also pregnant! The episode made viewers wonder: Is Kelli Giddish pregnant in real life?
As it turns out, yes, Giddish was indeed pregnant in real life.
Rollins gave birth to her first child — a daughter named Jesse with New York Police Department Captain Declan Murphy — in Season 17, Episode 9, in 2015. At the time, Rollins was also pregnant with her first child, Ludo.
Rollins welcomed her second child, daughter Billie with ex-boyfriend Al Pollack, in Season 20 in 2019. Rollins revealed she was pregnant with her third child with her husband, Assistant District Attorney Dominick Carisi, in Season 24 in 2023.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2015, SVU showrunner Warren Leight explained why the series decided to write in Giddish’s real-life pregnancy. “I didn’t want to have to deal with fern plants in front of her and fax machines and file folders.,” he said. “I just thought we would play the reality of what happens to a working detective who finds herself pregnant and how she adjusts to it. Obviously, for Kelli’s character, there aren’t many people in her life.”
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