'Earl' Girl Pressly Confirms Pregnancy

Zap2It.com | November 16, 2006

Eric Cubiche and Jaime Pressly

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It will be the actress' first child.

Jaime Pressly will only announce she's pregnant when she's good and ready, and that happened last night (Nov. 15) on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."

The "My Name Is Earl" actress confirmed that she and her fiancee Eric "Cubiche" Calvo are expecting their first child.

"I'm four months pregnant," she said. "I'm making it official tonight for the first time. I'm healthy. The baby's healthy. We're good."

The "official" part is important because her "Earl" co-star Jason Lee had let slip in October, amidst her recent engagment news, that "She's gonna be a good wife, she's gonna be a great mom." At the time, Pressly denied the story.

"I was only a month pregnant so I lied, which is a woman's right," she explained to Leno.

Pressly hasn't confirmed her baby's gender yet, but believes it to be a boy, judging from an ultrasound her doctor showed her.

"[My doctor] looked at the picture and said, 'If that's not a boy, that's a third leg,'" Pressly recalled. "Of course Eric says it's because he's Cuban."

If the baby turns out to be male, the couple intends to name him Dezi James. The first part comes from Desi Arnaz -- in honor of Calvo's impression of the famous Cuban performer in "I Love Lucy," calling out, "Lucy," when he comes home. The middle name is in honor of her father James.

Pressly and her LA-based DJ fiancee had been friends for nearly a decade before they started dating last year. Despite their long acquaintance, they're not in any hurry to set a wedding date.

Pressly, 29, recently an Emmy nomination for her supporting role on "Earl," which won Emmys for directing, writing, editing and casting. On the NBC sitcom, she plays Joy, the rather uncouth ex-wife to the title character (Jason Lee) and current wife of Darnell Turner (Eddie Steeples), a zealous Crab Shack employee.

On the big screen, she'll next star in video game-inspired "D.O.A.," which will be released on Dec. 8.