Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we examine the celebrity couples who give us hope for our own romantic futures as we try to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds.
“Did you hear that April from Parks and Rec and Charlie from Girls are having a baby?” is a real text message that I opened my eyes to in April—and indeed, Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott are expecting their first child together this fall. “It was a beautiful surprise after an emotional year,” a source told People in the spring. “They feel very blessed.”
I’ve been obsessed with Plaza’s relationship status ever since I learned that she and Michael Cera almost got married just so they could refer to each other as “ex-husband” and “ex-wife,” so finding out that she and Abbott were a couple was obviously huge for me—as was seeing them engage in the time-honored art of the red carpet bump reveal at the 2026 Tony Awards on Sunday. Plaza wore Chanel to celebrate her partner’s nomination for best featured actor in a play for his role as Biff Loman in Joe Mantello’s revival of Death of a Salesman.
Plaza and Abbott have a lot of professional history together, having co-starred in the 2023 off-Broadway revival of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, as well as in the 2019 indie Black Bear. Still, for fans of both actors, the news of Plaza’s pregnancy doubled as a relationship reveal—and I hardly have the words to convey how chic I think that is. Relatedly, I feel like we’re not going to hear another thing about their kid until their first dark yet surprisingly uplifting mumblecore movie opens at Sundance in 2048.
