Zooey Deschanel's rep has confirmed that the 35-year-old actress gave birth to a baby girl in late July. The confirmation was first revealed by Page Six. The news outlet also said that along with the birth, Zooey and the father of her child, Jacob Pechenik, have secretly gotten married.
The couple, who met on the set of a movie, started dating last year, and, by January, they announced that they were expecting their first child together.
"Jacob and I are over the moon. We are so excited to meet our little one," Zooey said in announcing the baby, according to People.
They were both in agreement that they will not find out about the baby's gender until the birth. "We are gonna be surprised. It's more fun, you know? Make it into a game," she told in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel when she appeared on his show.
The couple did get ultrasounds for the baby, but Zooey told the technician not to reveal the sex to her. "The last time the technician [said], 'Just so you know, I always use the pronoun he - it's just my habit.' She set it up because we were paranoid. Most people want to find out," the actress said in the interview.
Zooey's baby already has an instant playmate. Just last June, her older sister, "Bones" star Emily Deschanel, also gave birth to her second child, a boy, with husband David Hornsby, according to E! Online.
Meanwhile, details of Zooey and Jacob's wedding have been kept private, and while it was made known that the child was born in Austin, Texas, where Jacob is from, it is not known whether the couple also married in the same state.
Before giving birth, Zooey was working to wrap up filming the first few episodes of "New Girl's" upcoming fifth season. The cast and crew did not stop to take a break after the fourth season was done to accommodate the actress' pregnancy, as reported in Daily Mail.
No word yet on when the filming will resume for the show, however, season 5 will kick off with something big — an engagement party! "And Cece's mom comes to town; we're not quite sure if she approves of Schmidt or not. There's definitely going to be some road bumps on our way to actually having a wedding," Zooey's co-star, Max Greenfield, told Us Weekly.
