Actress Gina Rodriguez announced to the world that she was pregnant on her 38th birthday.
The Jane the Virgin star dropped the bombshell in a short Instagram video also featuring her actor husband Joe LoCicero, 35.
A montage of the couple sharing tender moments over a bed of soft romantic music ends with them holding up a positive pregnancy test.
Sharing the video with her 4.2 million followers, Gina captions the post with a red love heart emoji and wrote: "This birthday hits different."
Famous friends of the happy couple were quick to congratulate the pair on their baby news.
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Pitch Perfect star Brittany Snow wrote: "Yaaaaaay my love!! So much love for you THREE".
Her Jane the Virgin co-star Jaime Camil gushed: "My heart is bursting for you two."
Orange Is The New Black actress Danielle Brooks commented: "Welcome to the club mama!!!"
Academy Award winner Viola Davis, Dancing With The Stars professional Derek Hough, singer Jordin Sparks, and actress Arielle Kebbel also offered congratulations.
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During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2016, Gina admitted that she wants a baby "so bad".
"But I don't want the whole process, I just want one to arrive, like the stork conversation," she joked. "I could adopt, right? Yeah, I just might do that. I definitely want to adopt."
Referring to the twin babies she works with on Jane the Virgin, she said: "I feel like they bring the baby up to me and my ovaries are like 'Ahh! Come here, baby!'"
Gina won a Golden Globe for her role as Jane Villanueva in the romantic comedy drama series in 2015.
She met Joe on the show's set in 2016 after he appeared in a guest role as a stripper.