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The award-winning actress joked that she didn't "know how you get the preggers," anyway.

Tracee Ellis Ross addresses pregnancy rumors on* The Tonight Show*

The award-winning actress joked that she didn't "know how you get the preggers," anyway.

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- Tracee Ellis Ross is responding to rumors that she's pregnant.

- The *Girlfriends* alum clarified that she is not pregnant on The Tonight Show.

- She joked, "I don't know how you get the preggers.”

Tracee Ellis Ross is setting the record straight on those pregnancy rumors.

The *Girlfriends* star cleared the air surrounding whether or not she is expecting her first child at the top of her *Tonight Show** *interview on Tuesday.

“I am not pregnant. I am not,” Ross, 53, said. “I don’t have social media on my phone right now, and I kept getting texts and people were like, ‘Congratulations.’ I’m like, ‘On the play? Thank you!’”

Ellis Ross in Los Angeles on May 13.

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The Golden Globe-winning actress is set to make her Broadway debut in the Tony-nominated play *Every Brilliant Thing *beginning July 7. However, the celebratory texts she kept receiving weren’t actually about the production.

“Apparently, it’s swirling around and it seems that people think I’m pregnant, which is hilarious,” she said. “I am not pregnant. No, and I don’t know how you get the preggers.”

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Ross quickly clarified that she’s aware how people become pregnant, but not how the internet comes to the conclusion that celebrities are secretly with child.

“‘The pregnant’ is a thing they make up online when it’s obviously a slow news day,” she teased. “Do you know what I mean?”

Although the actress did have an idea about how the rumor may have gotten started. “I have been saying that rehearsing for this play is like swallowing a whale, and so maybe that was the confusion,” she said. “No? It’s over. It’s done.”

Over the years, Ross been open about not wanting her life to be defined only by getting married and having children. She condemned societal pressure to do so in a 2021 Marie Claire interview, adding, “Our society spoon-feeds it to you. I used to put myself to sleep dreaming of my wedding."

She continued, “And I would still love all of that, but what am I going to do, just sit around waiting? Shut up. I've got so many things to do."

That includes *Every Brilliant Thing*, of which Ross explained the premise during her* Tonight Show* visit. “It’s a piece about mental health, but it’s told through a list of every brilliant thing worth living for,” she said. “So it’s a really beautiful, uplifting, life-affirming piece. And it’s done… in connection with the audience.”

She added, “The intention is that you leave realizing that none of us do this alone. And it’s so beautiful.”

Watch Ross address the rumors in the clip above.

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