Heard on the Street: Grace Byers on Her ‘Harlem’ Pregnancy Surprise

Grace Byers reveals why she didn’t realize she was pregnant with her first child while filming season 2 of Prime Video’s Harlem.

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“As soon as I wrapped season two [of Harlem], I found out I was pregnant. So which meant that of course, half of it, I was pregnant and didn’t know … You know, what’s interesting is that the same things in the beginning of pregnancy kind of mirror that with your cycle so I thought it was my cycle, you know what I mean? And so it’s like, so then, when we wrapped, I was like ‘Oh no, that’s not my cycle. It’s a baby!'”

– Grace Byers, who plays sustainable fashion designer Quinn Joseph in Harlem, tells Tamron Hall that she didn’t know she was pregnant while filming season 2 of the hit Prime Video series. The actor also revealed during today’s episode of Tamron Hall that her husband Trai Byers, whom she met while filming Empire, surprised her with a babymoon to Big Sur in California. “So yeah, we went to Big Sur, and so we could drive instead of flying and then we could take breaks and all of that. And it was wonderful. It was beautiful!” This is their first child after wedding April 14, 2016. The Byers baby isn’t the only celebrity baby expected to be born in 2023. See the other pregnant celebrities here.