Vanessa Hudgens and her husband, Cole Tucker, are expecting their second baby.
“Round two!!!!,” Hudgens, 36, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, July 12, announcing the news by sharing a carousel of maternity photos.
In the snaps, Hudgens and Tucker, 29, twinned in white as they posed outside. The MLB star jokingly pointed to his wife’s bare baby bump.
Hudgens and Tucker’s celebrity friends toasted the forthcoming arrival in the comments.
“Omg!!!!!!!! Congrats,” fellow Disney Channel alum Aly Michalka replied, while Allison Holker and Alexandra Shipp each sent a flurry of red heart emojis.
Jenna Dewan, for her part, added, “Ohhhhh congratulations my love!!”
Hudgens’ former Broadway costar Corey Cott also responded, commenting, “Congrats V!”
Nearly two weeks before sharing her pregnancy news, Hudgens called Tucker her “best friend” in a birthday tribute.
“Happy birthday to my best friend/lover/partner in life,” she wrote via Instagram on July 3. “@cotuck you’re everything to meeeeeee. No one does it better.”
Tucker, for his part, replied, “You’re the best mama thank you ❤️.”
The High School Musical star and Tucker have been together since fall 2020, meeting over a Zoom-led meditation session. They tied the knot three years later in an intimate ceremony held in Tulum, Mexico.
“I also knew I wanted to get married somewhere warm, and our window for getting married was so small because Cole’s [baseball] season is very long,” she recalled to Vogue in 2023. “I felt like ‘Mexico it is!’ I also wanted somewhere very spiritual. So I went to the hotel and got a really long tour, where I myself was not doing well, I was so hot and felt like I was going to faint. At the end of this very long tour, I was like ‘Where would we have our ceremony?’ and they were like ‘Oh, that would be at our museum’ and they said, ‘It’s 45 minutes into the jungle.’ I was thinking, ‘Okay, that sounds aggressive, but I guess I’ll give it a try.’”
She added, “I felt like I was transported to some kind of utopia, unlike anything I had ever been to before. It was whimsical and magical, and I just fell in love.”
Hudgens revealed the next year that she was pregnant with the couple’s first child, debuting her baby bump at the 2024 Oscars. The actress gave birth in July 2024.
“Mom, Dad and baby are happy and healthy,” Hudgens gushed via Instagram story, calling it a “special time.”
Hudgens and Tucker have not publicly shared the name or sex of their eldest child.
