By M.P. Pressley
Joanna Gaines would like everyone to hear it from her: she is not pregnant. The rumor mill says otherwise — and the source of the rumors is her own husband.
The Fixer Upper star, 48, appeared on the November 5 episode of Kylie Kelce’s podcast Not Gonna Lie and revealed that Chip Gaines, 51, has come down with a serious case of baby fever — and he’s spreading the word himself. “You know what he’s doing? He’s telling everybody I’m pregnant,” Joanna said. “And just for the record, I’m not.”
According to Joanna, Chip has told their grown children the “news” directly. “He told our grown kids, ‘Mom is pregnant,’” she recalled. “My daughter said, ‘I’m not coming home if this is true.’” His parents got the treatment too — at a recent football game, Chip tried to get Joanna to break the news to his father herself. And at a speaking engagement in front of 2,000 people last week, he asked the crowd, “If anyone has any connection to TMZ, will you tell them that my wife is pregnant?” As Joanna put it: “So that whole audience thinks I’m pregnant. I don’t know what’s happening. But I’m not.” She figures he’s “trying to speak it out into the universe.”
The funny part is the reversal. When the couple welcomed their youngest son, Crew, in 2018 — Joanna was 40 — she was the one who wanted more. “When I had Crew at 40, I said, ‘Chip, I want him to have more siblings,’” she shared. “I really thought I’d have nine children. I’m that lady.” Back then, Chip was not open to it. “Guess who’s open to it now?” she laughed. “At 48?”
The Gaineses, married since 2003, are parents to five: sons Drake, 21, Duke, 18, and Crew, 8, and daughters Ella, 20, and Emmie, 16. For now, Joanna’s message to anyone who hears Chip’s announcement is simple: “We’ve got enough businesses, I think we’re good!”
Fans can catch the couple’s next chapter on television — their new series, Fixer Upper: Chip Bought a Mansion, has them taking on their most ambitious renovation yet. Whether baby No. 6 ever joins the cast, only time (and Chip) will tell.
Sources: People; USA Today; Just Jared; Hello! Magazine — reporting on Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce, November 5, 2026.
Photo: Joanna Gaines / Wikimedia Commons
