Gina Rodriguez is now a mom. The actress, best known for her role as Jane Villanueva in the hit The CW series Jane the Virgin, gave birth to a healthy baby boy.
As she begins this new chapter in her life, take a look at Rodriguez’s life, career, and net worth.
Gina Rodriguez’s Career
The 38-year-old started her acting career in theater productions in 2003. From there, she made her small screen debut in an episode of the police procedural drama Law & Order.
Finally, she received her breakthrough when she did the musical-drama movie Filly Brown in 2012.
Luck continued to come her way as it was followed by several other films, like Deepwater Horizon, Ferdinand, Annihilation, Miss Bala, Someone Great, and Scoob!
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Come 2014, she did Jane the Virgin and earned a Golden Globe Award in 2015.
She also lent her voice to the titular character of the animated action-adventure series Carmen Sandiego on Netflix.
With these to her name, Rodriguez has amassed a net worth of $5 million.
Gina Rodriguez is Now a Mom
Rodriguez is a first-time mom after welcoming her first child with her husband, Joe LoCiero.
Her agent told People the couple is now proud parents to a baby boy.
The actress announced in July that they were expecting their first baby—two years after tying the knot in 2019.
"This birthday hits different," she posted on Instagram, celebrating her birthday with the baby news.
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In an interview in August, she told People about her pregnancy journey and hopes to “bring to motherhood.”
"I'm very excited and overwhelmed and feel like a superwoman," she said. "I feel like every day is bizarre and different, and I have so much appreciation for every human being that has brought a child onto this planet. Anytime I see somebody with a child, I'm like, 'Congratulations, you're a superhero.'"
She also shared how she could relate to her Netflix series Lost Ollie as she prepared for the coming of her first baby.
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"I think about my own journey I'm about to go on, and how much I want to ignite my child's imagination and never take it away," she added. "I want to allow my child to live in those spaces, while also living in our culture that is real and of the flesh, and you have to play by certain rules. But how do you still keep that? As an actor, I get so lucky because I get to play. That's what my job is, is I get to always live in imagination."
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