Carli Lloyd showed off her growing baby bump on FOX's 2026 World Cup pregame show on Friday, making clear that the former U.S. soccer star is expecting her second child while back on air for the tournament. Lloyd, 43, wore a patriotic red-and-blue striped dress as she joined the coverage and appeared visibly pregnant during the broadcast.
The moment answers the question many viewers were already asking online: is carli lloyd pregnant? She announced in April that she and her husband, Brian Hollins, are expecting another child, and said then that their family was growing and that they could not be more grateful. Lloyd also said they were soaking in gratitude, love and excitement as they prepared to welcome another little miracle, adding that being blessed with another baby still feels hard to believe.
What makes the timing stand out is that Lloyd is doing this while covering the 2026 World Cup, a tournament that has brought her back into the public eye on a major stage. The World Cup is being played in the United States for the first time since 1994, and Lloyd reflected on watching that tournament as a 12-year-old, saying it was one of the biggest events she followed before the 1999 Women's World Cup team inspired her. She said later that seeing those players changed what she believed was possible, and that World Cups have a way of changing lives.
Lloyd and Hollins were married in November 2016 and welcomed their first child, daughter Harper, in October 2024. Her latest appearance adds a personal milestone to a career already defined by major international success: she won the 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cups with the USWNT, was named FIFA Player of the Year in 2015 and 2016, scored gold-medal-winning goals in 2008 and 2012, and won bronze at the Tokyo Games in 2021.
She has said she is due in September, but has not said whether the pregnancy will alter her broadcasting schedule. For now, Lloyd is still in the studio, still tied to one of soccer's biggest stages, and still balancing a public pregnancy with the job of covering the game that helped define her.
