As we learned a week ago, Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie are a couple now. They’ve been a couple for months, even though Morena only filed for divorce back in June of this year. Coincidentally, June was the same month that she got pregnant with Ben’s child. As you can imagine, Morena’s estranged husband Austin Chick is having some issues with this turn of events and to be quite honest, I don’t blame him. Morena is now using her pregnancy and her relationship with Ben – and their plans to marry!!! – as the reason why Chick shouldn’t have joint custody of their child together. Basically, the press is not really on Morena’s side. So an “insider” close to Morena went to Us Weekly to explain what really happened:
Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie are “genuinely happy with everything right now,” says a Baccarin source, who adds that Morena is trying not to let her contentious split from Austin Chick spoil her exciting news. “But divorces are always stressful.”
Although Chick claims that the conception of the child Morena is currently carrying was right when they were trying to work things out, a source insists: “There is nothing salacious. Morena and Austin were having problems for a long time and separated in the spring before things with Ben turned romantic. They started talking about divorce back then.”
As Morena’s three-year marriage fizzled, Morena turned to her leading man.
“They spoke on the phone as friends,” says the Baccarin source. “Ben was her moral support and helped her get through a difficult time.” During the lengthy chats, the onscreen lovers fell for each other. Says the source: “it turned romantic.”
Baccarin became pregnant almost immediately. “I don’t know that it was planned, but it was very happy news. They were overjoyed.”
Still, they kept their romance under wraps when they resumed work in June. “They didn’t blast their love with a megaphone. They are both reserved and acted that way on set,” says the source, who also tells Us Weekly that Ben and Morena are preparing for their new arrival and planning a wedding.
[From Us Weekly, print edition]
“They spoke on the phone as friends.” I didn’t realize phone sex got ladies pregnant nowadays. That’s some good phone action. “Ben was her moral support and helped her get through a difficult time.” With his penis. I mean, who’s to say that this isn’t truly what happened? If it really went down like this and Austin and Morena really were separated and “falling apart” at the moment of conception, then… yeah, it’s still messy. Mostly because Morena and Austin were still living together! Morena was phone-sexing Ben while she shared a home with her husband. MESSY.
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