17 Celebrities on Their Most Unusual Pregnancy Cravings
“I’ve had this strange craving for roasted fruit, like roasted cherries and grilled bananas, and that sounds crazy, but it’s real easy,” Keys told Us Weekly during her second pregnancy last year. “You put it on what you might make a panini on, and you grill the banana and it’s amazing.” Um, I’m not pregnant, but I’m trying that tonight.
Husband Adam Levine talked about his wife’s pregnancy cravings with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show last year. “She’s eating a lot of watermelon. A lot of watermelon,” He said. “You get random cravings for stuff, and it’s just like so much watermelon.” Healthy and hydrating!
A source told Closer Weekly that hubby George had no problems going along with Amal’s food preferences while she was carrying their twins. “Amal’s been craving pasta and risotto with white truffles lately, and George is indulging right along with her.” Hey, don’t let it go to waste!
Some reports said our September cover star had a thing for “organic hand-churned pumpkin-flavored ice cream and small-batch pickles” while she was pregnant with daughter James, 3. So basically, the most Hollywood version of the classic pregnancy combo. Apparently, Blake’s gem of a husband, Ryan Reynolds made runs in the middle of the night to curb her cravings while she was pregnant. Question: where can we find organic hand-churned pumpkin-flavored ice cream? Is this real?
When she was pregnant with her son Isaiah, now 2, Carrie Underwood told Rachael Ray, “I am giving myself license to have things I might not normally have. Sometimes I’ll wake up in the middle of the night and I’ll be like, ‘Man, I’m hungry’ and then I’ll get up and have a midnight snack, which I’ve never done before,” she said. “I ate Pop-Tarts. I haven’t done that since college.”
Kemper is a girl after our own hearts. “I’ve been eating a lot of ice cream,” she told Conan O’Brian last spring. “It’s gotten to the point where I feel like an alcoholic, but it’s for Ben & Jerry’s. Like, I go there every night. And the guy looks at me… and he’s so kind. But he knows.” This is a very relatable situation, y’all.
Jeter’s pregnancy cravings made her question her vegetarianism (which can happen)! “I don’t eat meat, but now I crave beef jerky all the time,” Jeter told Extra earlier this year. But she balances it out with dessert: “I like a lot of gummies, like candy and stuff like that… anything salty or sweet.”
Ginnifer Goodwin
“My biggest craving with this pregnancy is banana peppers,” Goodwin shared with E! News during her pregnancy last year. “The last pregnancy, I was all about jalapeños, which aren’t very far from the banana tree.”
There’s an old wives’ tale that spicy foods help with labor….
As most Southern girls know, butter is good on anything. “I had a buttered Pop-Tart this morning,” Simpson told Extra in 2012 when she was pregnant with her daughter, Maxwell. “I’m eating a lot of stuff that I ate in my childhood. Kraft Mac n’ Cheese, Pop-Tarts, Cap’n Crunch. Everything’s filled with sugar.” But no chicken of the sea!?
When Kardashian was pregnant with her third child, son Reign, she ate bagels for dinner every night. She told E! “I would have plain ones just in my bag at all times. Khloé would be like, ‘What’s in your purse?’ I’d have two bagels at all times.” Her go-to was a blueberry bagel with cream cheese and jelly.
Prepon’s pregnancy cravings got her in touch with her half-Jewish roots. “When I got pregnant all of a sudden I was like, ‘I need a pastrami on rye. I need a Dr. Brown’s black cherry soda. I need mustard and sauerkraut.’ These crazy Jewish deli cravings hit me so hard. ,” she told Us Weekly last month.
The Duchess almost put the royal kitchen out of commission in the dessert department during her pregnancies. “She’s like a kid in a candy store,” especially when it comes to cupcakes, biscuits, and raspberry ripple ice cream, according to Parents magazine. The sweet cravings must run in the family, because when Kate’s mother was pregnant with both Kate and Pippa, “she indulged in every sweet she could get her hands on,” a Middleton family friend has said.
Kunis talked pregnancy cravings while carrying her second child on Live! With Kelly last year. “I can at eggs all day long. If someone’s like, ‘Have an egg for dinner!’ I’m like, ‘Great. It’s been a very strange pregnancy when it comes to, like, food.” Doesn’t sound that strange, honestly! Eggs for dinner are great.
Conrad loved what she called “kid” food while pregnant with her son Liam James, born in July. “When I was pregnant, I ate a lot of peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches on sourdough….William said I ate like I lived in a roller rink. I wanted… macaroni and cheese.” Interestingly, after Liam was born, Conrad’s tastes changed again. “I hadn’t eaten red meat since I was 16… [but] I had a hamburger for breakfast the other day!” she told People in her first post-Liam interview.
During her second pregnancy, Wilde posted a photo to Instagram of maple bacon-flavored Kettle Brand potato chips. Her captions said it all: “Hi I’m pregnant.”
Williams’ fiancé, Alexis Ohanian, recently made a trip to the market to gather some food for his pregnant wife. Thanks to Instagram, we got our own glimpse at the so-called “cravings” Williams was feeling. “It’s Friday night, I’m at Publix, going shopping ’cause my fiancé has cravings. I was told there would be cravings. I was not told they would be these,” he jokes in his Instagram video while holding green vegetables including asparagus and zucchini. Guess we know how the tennis champ is fueling those amazing pregnancy workouts now.
Entenmann’s chocolate doughnuts seemed to be the snack of choice during Fey’s pregnancy with her daughter Alice, now 12. She told What to Expect there was a point she was downing a box per day. Liz Lemon would have been proud.