Contrary to what's being reported in the tabloids, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi aren't secretly trying to start a family. In fact, the wives refuted the rumors together on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. "I know everything about you, obviously, so we had viewers write questions," the host said Tuesday. "One of the main things that everybody is asking me about, and asking you about, and I thought I would let you clear it up, is If we're having a baby or not? So, I thought maybe you should answer that question."
The Scandal star, 41, said it would be "so fun for everybody if we were." DeGeneres, 56, agreed, saying, "They want us to have a baby." De Rossi held up a tabloid magazine cover and pointed to a headline. "Did you see? It says, 'They're finally starting a family!' Are people really that mad at us?" she asked.
"Yeah, we've waited way too long," DeGeneres said.
"Clearly," de Rossi joked. "Yeah, so um, no."
"We're not gonna have a baby?" DeGeneres asked. "No, we're not," her wife replied.
"Good for me to know now," the comedienne quipped.
The speculation has become so intense that de Rossi's own sibling started to question whether the news was true. "My brother called me and said, 'I heard I'm gonna be an uncle?'" she recalled. "There was a tiny little question in the word 'uncle,' because he didn't know. But he's not gonna read it on the cover of a tabloid." DeGeneres said her assistant "asked if I'm keeping something from him because it's so prevalent." She added, "Everyone assumes we really are having a baby and we're just not sharing it."
"This is just one big act, you know?" de Rossi joked. "That'd be pretty clever of us."
"But we're not having a baby...or are we?" DeGeneres joked. Seriously, she said, "No, we're not."
In her 2011 book, Seriously...I'm Kidding, DeGeneres made light of people who longed to see her become a mother. "People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own," she wrote. "There is far too much glass in our house."
DeGeneres debunked similar rumors in August 2012. "I don't know why people want this," she said on The Tonight Show. " I don't want to have one. I don't want to have six. I don't want to have any. They're precious to look at and I love them; we have nieces and I love them very much. [But I] don't want 'em."Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi Silence Ongoing Baby Rumors Once and for All
Contrary to what's being reported in the tabloids, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi aren't secretly trying to start a family. In fact, the wives refuted the rumors together on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. "I know everything about you, obviously, so we had viewers write questions," the host said Tuesday. "One of the main things that everybody is asking me about, and asking you about, and I thought I would let you clear it up, is If we're having a baby or not? So, I thought maybe you should answer that question."
The Scandal star, 41, said it would be "so fun for everybody if we were." DeGeneres, 56, agreed, saying, "They want us to have a baby." De Rossi held up a tabloid magazine cover and pointed to a headline. "Did you see? It says, 'They're finally starting a family!' Are people really that mad at us?" she asked.
"Yeah, we've waited way too long," DeGeneres said.
"Clearly," de Rossi joked. "Yeah, so um, no."
"We're not gonna have a baby?" DeGeneres asked. "No, we're not," her wife replied.
"Good for me to know now," the comedienne quipped.
The speculation has become so intense that de Rossi's own sibling started to question whether the news was true. "My brother called me and said, 'I heard I'm gonna be an uncle?'" she recalled. "There was a tiny little question in the word 'uncle,' because he didn't know. But he's not gonna read it on the cover of a tabloid." DeGeneres said her assistant "asked if I'm keeping something from him because it's so prevalent." She added, "Everyone assumes we really are having a baby and we're just not sharing it."
"This is just one big act, you know?" de Rossi joked. "That'd be pretty clever of us."
"But we're not having a baby...or are we?" DeGeneres joked. Seriously, she said, "No, we're not."
In her 2011 book, Seriously...I'm Kidding, DeGeneres made light of people who longed to see her become a mother. "People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own," she wrote. "There is far too much glass in our house."
DeGeneres debunked similar rumors in August 2012. "I don't know why people want this," she said on The Tonight Show. " I don't want to have one. I don't want to have six. I don't want to have any. They're precious to look at and I love them; we have nieces and I love them very much. [But I] don't want 'em."