As we learned a week ago, Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie are a couple now. They’ve been a couple for months, even though Morena only filed for divorce back in June of this year. Coincidentally, June was the same month that she got pregnant with Ben’s child. As you can imagine, Morena’s estranged husband Austin Chick is having some issues with this turn of events and to be quite honest, I don’t blame him. Morena is now using her pregnancy and her relationship with Ben – and their plans to marry!!! – as the reason why Chick shouldn’t have joint custody of their child together. Basically, the press is not really on Morena’s side. So an “insider” close to Morena went to Us Weekly to explain what really happened:
Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie are “genuinely happy with everything right now,” says a Baccarin source, who adds that Morena is trying not to let her contentious split from Austin Chick spoil her exciting news. “But divorces are always stressful.”
Although Chick claims that the conception of the child Morena is currently carrying was right when they were trying to work things out, a source insists: “There is nothing salacious. Morena and Austin were having problems for a long time and separated in the spring before things with Ben turned romantic. They started talking about divorce back then.”
As Morena’s three-year marriage fizzled, Morena turned to her leading man.
“They spoke on the phone as friends,” says the Baccarin source. “Ben was her moral support and helped her get through a difficult time.” During the lengthy chats, the onscreen lovers fell for each other. Says the source: “it turned romantic.”
Baccarin became pregnant almost immediately. “I don’t know that it was planned, but it was very happy news. They were overjoyed.”
Still, they kept their romance under wraps when they resumed work in June. “They didn’t blast their love with a megaphone. They are both reserved and acted that way on set,” says the source, who also tells Us Weekly that Ben and Morena are preparing for their new arrival and planning a wedding.
[From Us Weekly, print edition]
“They spoke on the phone as friends.” I didn’t realize phone sex got ladies pregnant nowadays. That’s some good phone action. “Ben was her moral support and helped her get through a difficult time.” With his penis. I mean, who’s to say that this isn’t truly what happened? If it really went down like this and Austin and Morena really were separated and “falling apart” at the moment of conception, then… yeah, it’s still messy. Mostly because Morena and Austin were still living together! Morena was phone-sexing Ben while she shared a home with her husband. MESSY.
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The timeline and math says the contrary. It’s real damn messy and sloppy.
That’s so laughable that, really, it’s not funny.
Leave Ryan Atwood alone, Kaiser. It’s hard out there growing up in Chino. 😀
The headline is gold 😀
I’ve seen less sloppy joe’s .Wait, that looks bad. But you guys know what I mean. this is some salacious as hell goings-on. Seriously, guys.We see you.
Thanks for that comment. Made me spit milk on my keyboard with laughter but totally worth it!
I hope to god she doesn’t get sole custody – that would be a travesty. What a backhoe she turned out to be!
Oh it’s a bit salacious! I’m not sure they quite get what that word means.
Life happens, but what matters now (particularly to the courts) is the kids. Be polite, work out a carefully worded, fair custody arrangement and move on.
Divorces are messy. No one but them really knows when one party moved out. The house may be in two people’s names but it doesn’t mean the other is not sleeping at a friend’s, in a rented apartment or whatever.
Not sure why so many are willing to believe that whatever Chick is saying is pure and true? For me his comment about finding Ben “freshly showered and playing with his son” ruined all his credibility because, like I said before, how do you know someone is freshly showered? You smell them and check if their hair is damp? That is creepy, and frankly, it sounded like he was so bitter he was trying to slut shame his ex.
We get it, you are upset. But this is still the mother of your son, and the law doesn’t care about how the breakup happened, so the only reason for sharing these details and making a big deal out of is to hurt and punish her. And I can see a big request for money coming up in 3.2.1….
Sorry, but this is a silly commentary. I think everyone here knows what a “freshly showered” person looks like.
someone is standing in. front of you in a towel and with wet hair and you wouldn’t be able to conclude they are “freshly showered” without being a creep? OK now.
*tosses phone away* last Thing I need is to get pregnant from mimif
^ Comment of the year, right there.
Morena, if your divorce does not go through before you give birth, the child will legally be your soon-to-be-ex-husband’s. You have made a colossal mess and yes, it is salacious and sordid. So, accept the standard state joint custody arrangement for your existing child and hush yourself.
For what it’s worth, if you look at pictures of Morena on the red carpet, she was no longer wearing her wedding ring in May. Prior to that, everytime she’d pose for pictures, you’d see her with her ring.
And it was the husband who filed in mid June, not her.
This is my theory: She had moved on with Ben and wanted out of the marriage. It’s likely that she abandoned the marriage but the husband wanted to save the marriage and perhaps thought the thing with Ben was an office fling that she needed to get out of her system. When he wouldn’t let go easily Morena (I so much want to type “Macarena”) forced his hand by exhibiting brazen behavior such as screwing Ben in the marital home, having him shower there just around the time the husband was due to show up, and when Austin found Ben playing with his son that was probably the last straw. I don’t know if she was pregnant at that point or not, but bringing your side piece into your marital home, into your spouse’s bedroom and allowing your sidepiece to shower there and play with your child … this is classic passive-aggresive behavior that was meant to incite.
Also, in the original TMZ article mentioning the “shower” incident, it says it occurred in August. And then in a subsequent article, TMZ says it was in June, but they linked back to the old article that said it was in August.
Girl………don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
lol, I love this (although I’m slightly grossed out by it after reading the JLaw post).
Hmmmm….Ovulating. Check. Body temp on point. Check.
*Calls Fassbender*.
Hahaha. I got del Toro, Benicio del Toro.
I hope your lover boy is good in Sicario. He is so talented, but has made some bad choices in the last few years.
I know I should side-eye this so freaking hard, but I will forever have tremendous affection for both of them for Firefly and The OC, respectively. Ugh… I can’t seem to break away from it!
Ah, Firefly. Great show! Morena played a very self-centered, expensive callgirl. She always venomously denied being a prostitute, in spite of all evidence. I don’t know why I suddenly remembered that?
They were called “companions” and were more like courtesans, trained from youth to be cultured and pleasing. They could also pick their customers; the customers applied to the companions for their services. The companions could say yes or no. How do I remember all this? I have the DVD box set 🙂
Inara wasn’t particularly self-centred, though? In fact she was a lot LESS self-involved and judgemental than the captain himself. There are plenty of scenes of her taking care of the others and especially the younger girl on the ship (Kaylee, not River) despite the fact that she was technically only hiring Serenity for transport.
Inara was beautiful, charming, well-mannered and occasionally helpful – but ultimately someone who fled from lasting bonds of love and friendship, because she didn’t want to change or compromise. She seemed perfectly content with her job, which consisted of sleeping with a continuous stream of douches with deep pockets. The captain merely refused to go along with the lies she was telling herself, which was offensive to Inara – but not really a sign of prejudice.
Joss Whedon said the plan for Inara was that she was dying of an incurable disease all the way thru season 1. That why she loved Mal, could never tell him.
Joss Whedon said the plan for Inara was that she was dying of an incurable disease all the way thru season 1. That why she loved Mal l, could never tell him.
Ben was her “moral support”? This made me laugh. It’s like none of these people actually hear themselves talking.
It is hilarious. Like, they didn’t sit on a beige couch sipping camomile talking about feelings, okay? They were having hot and steamy boning sessions!
It’s totally a line publicists trot out to explain these rebound relationships. Man, I wish I was a publicist/tab writer now. I know lots of cliches! Sign me up!
I don’t understand why the Morena camp are doubling down on the “they were talking about divorce and separating” angle. They phrase it the same way everytime too, “they were talking about” well there is a HUGE difference between talking about separating and actually separating, and I’m not talking about the piece of paper. This reminds me of Kelsey Grammer’s definition of separating. Making up your mind definitively but not sharing that decision with your spouse.
As an aside: I recently started watching Gotham. This Ben fella — who I have never seen in anything before in my life — is godawful on that show. I stopped watching after episode 2 because the acting is so bad. And he’s in so many scenes that it’s inescapable.
Maybe “freshly showered” was code for “wearing only a towel.”
BIRTH CONTROL
she should have told him it was over and no chance of them working. Not put him through hunger games. BIG difference between talking and doing.
I can see why he is dragging her name through the mud. What she is saying doesn’t make any since yeah going through a hard time and talking about divorce means he shouldn’t be surprised about ben. Many people go through tough times but don’t divorce and he is problem angry he wasted is time trying to fix. Something she never had her heart in fixing but now if he want’s to be petty he could say the child his is and want visitation rights. Even if they weren’t have sex because they are married . SHE really didn’t think this through all the way plus he want’s spousal support and child ( SHE SHOULD HAVE WAITED UNTILL HER DIVORCE WAS FINSHED TO CARRY OUT HER DREAMS AND JUST DATED BEN UNTILL THE COULD BE DRAMA FREE. SHE sound’s like she is noting telling the truth either first she say march they began to have problems now it’s longer witch one is it. rant over
I just feel sorry for the woman Ben was seeing. And I would imagine things are a little frosty on the set between Ben and one of his costars because of this.
Was he seeing another person on set when he hooked up with Minnie Mouse?
There are quite a few rumors going around about Chick being a cheater. It also doesn’t help that he allegedly was sending her taunting texts about their son.
I know accidents happen, but birth control?? I would think if you were in such a messy situation you would be doubling up with condoms and the pill.
If people used birth control, Cumberbatch wouldn’t be married! LOL
Let’s call a spade a spade this whole thing is messy.
lol ok. This may be messy but Austin Chick hardly has clean hands here, he’s been cheating on her since before their son was born. Better to just let her go with grace instead of trying to drag her for doing the exact same thing he himself did.
I don’t shade anyone for finding love when it’s gone out of your marriage. One of the couple always has one foot out the door when things are tough and it sucks both ways. To stray away from working it out is messy yes, but love is what everyone ultimately wants and if you get it it’s like a drug at first, you make poor decisions. I wouldn’t have gotten pregnant, but they obviously want the baby because they’re having it. Love ain’t easy.