Not to be rude, but we always have photos of Reese Witherspoon looking “baby bumpy”. I think she gains weight in her stomach, and whenever we declare that we see a “baby bump,” we’re wrong. As is everyone else who calls it, of course. So I’m including photos of Reese from March 4th and the 16th, just to show you that she does have a noticeable baby bump, but we had a good reason for not calling it. Us Weekly must have gotten the wink and the nod from Reese’s people though, because they’re putting Reese and her womb on this week’s cover. There’s no confirmation from Reese or her rep, though. Interesting…

When Reese Witherspoon turns 36 this Thursday March 22, she’ll definitely have something extra to celebrate: A baby on the way! As multiple sources confirm exclusively in the new Us Weekly, out now, the Oscar-winning actress is pregnant with her third child, and her first with second husband Jim Toth, who she wed last March at her $7 million ranch in Ojai, Calif. after over a year of dating.

“Reese is right around 12 weeks,” one source explains, adding that the This Means War star is “not planning to announce it.”

The baby-to-be will join older siblings Ava, 12, and Deacon, 8, Witherspoon’s kids with first husband Ryan Phillippe, from whom she split in 2006 after 7 years of marriage. Pals of Witherspoon and high-powered CAA agent Toth, 41, aren’t shocked by the happy news. “Reese and Jim have been trying to get pregnant,” one pal says.

And now that the A-list couple are breaking the news to a small circle of friends, their baby joy is obvious.

“The timing is right,” one source says. “She’s so happy!”

For much more on Witherspoon’s pregnancy — how Ava, Deacon and their dad Ryan Phillippe reacted, how Toth is gearing up for first-time fatherhood and Witherspoon’s plan for “time off” — pick up the new Us Weekly, on stands Friday!

[From Us Weekly]

I think it’s probably on. Us Weekly would have run with this cover unless they got a confirmation from someone very close to Reese. I mean… yeah, Us Weekly isn’t People Magazine, but they’re also not OK! Mag. I believe Reese is knocked up this time. She and Jim Toth have been married a year, and I think the time is right for her. She’s also talked about having another baby with Jim, and how good he is to her, so… I don’t know. It makes sense to me. I think Jim is a keeper, and he’s a good step-dad to her kids with Ryan. I think Reese and Jim are going to be together for a long, long time.

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