- During a January 2025 episode of their podcast The Squeeze, Tay Lautner revealed she had undergone fertility testing after her doctor raised concerns about her long-term use of birth control, admitting the possibility of not being able to have children had long been one of her deepest personal fears.
- Tay shared that her doctor, Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, flagged that ten straight years on birth control without a break could mean she had very few eggs left, before delivering the news that sent both of them into relief: “We’re in the clear. I got a lot of eggs.”
- The January 2025 Squeeze episode was notable for how directly Tay addressed fertility as a source of ongoing anxiety, even after receiving good news, making Thursday’s pregnancy announcement feel less like a celebrity reveal and more like the final chapter of a story her audience had already been living with her.
Most Celebrity Pregnancy announcements arrive out of nowhere. A posed photo, a clever caption, a flood of comments from famous friends, and that is that. Taylor and Tay Lautner‘s announcement this week was different. By the time the sonogram photos hit Instagram, anyone who had been following The Squeeze already knew exactly how much this moment meant. The road to it had been documented, honestly and openly, for well over a year.
The Podcast Conversation That Started Everything
In January 2025, Tay sat down for an episode of The Squeeze and shared something that most people in her position would have kept entirely private. She had visited her doctor for a fertility check-in, and what she heard initially stopped her cold.
Her OBGYN, Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, told her she was concerned because Tay had been on birth control for ten years without ever taking a break, and that she could potentially have very few eggs remaining. For a 28-year-old who had quietly always wanted to be a mother, that conversation landed hard.
Tay told her podcast audience that she was genuinely nervous, that the fear was real, and that it sat with her in a way that was difficult to shake. She did not dress it up. She did not make it sound manageable before it was. She just told the truth about what it felt like to sit in a doctor’s office and hear something you were not ready for.
The Relief That Followed
Then came the part that changed everything. The results came back, and the news was the best possible outcome: she was completely in the clear, with her doctor confirming she had a healthy and plentiful egg supply. Tay’s exact words were: “By the grace of God, there’s a lot.”
She told her listeners the news gave her genuine peace of mind, especially because the concern had felt so real in the weeks leading up to the results.
That kind of transparency matters. Medical research consistently suggests that long-term contraceptive use does not permanently affect fertility after stopping, but that information does not make the waiting feel any less frightening for the people actually living through it. Tay said what millions of women in similar situations feel but rarely say out loud, and her audience never forgot it.
Why The Squeeze Made This Story Bigger Than Baby News
The Squeeze launched in February 2023 with a simple but powerful mission, built around the idea that even those living the most public lives can be weighed down by their own version of hard times, and that nobody should have to carry that weight alone.
The show quickly climbed to the top of the mental health podcast rankings and has been featured on The Tonight Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, CBS Mornings, and The Today Show. It is not a celebrity vanity project. The conversations are real, the guests are varied, and the hosts show up as people rather than personalities.
Taylor has spoken openly on the show about his own anxiety, his evolution beyond the Jacob Black image, and what it has meant to watch Tay build her Lemons Foundation from the ground up during some of the hardest years of her life. They built the podcast together the same way they seem to build everything: without pretending things are easier than they are.
The Announcement That Paid It All Off
On March 26, the couple posted a carousel of photos in a sunlit meadow, trading turns holding sonogram images, laughing and lying in the grass, with Taylor bending down to kiss Tay’s growing bump in the very first frame.
The caption was vintage them: “What’s better than two Taylor Lautners?” A nod to their shared name, a hint at a possible third, and a lightness that only works because the harder stuff had already been said.
Tay had also shared with Us Weekly that becoming a parent came with its own separate fears, admitting she sometimes worried about how to raise children who would feel safe speaking openly and coming to their parents with the hard things. Given everything she has built around mental health and honest conversation, that fear makes complete sense.
The good news is she has already proven she knows exactly how to create that kind of space. Her podcast is evidence of it. So is this pregnancy announcement.
