FOX News personality Kat Timpf has opened up to The U.S. Sun about the sick comments she’s received throughout her pregnancy.
Timpf, 36, was surprised by the harsh online reactions after she announced her pregnancy last July.
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As a Fox News analyst and the co-host of Gutfeld!, Timpf is used to online trolls weighing in on her every move.
But she wasn’t expecting even more abuse about her decision to start a family with her husband, Cameron Friscia.
“You know what’s crazy? I really thought that being pregnant would make people be nicer to me but people are meaner to me now,” Timpf told The U.S. Sun in an exclusive conversation in October.
The pundit and comedian received even more criticism after she showed her stomach in a video of her recording a podcast episode with Barstool Sports’ Out and About in October.
Timpf said she used to hesitate to share pictures and videos of her showing her stomach because of a scar she has from a previous ileostomy surgery.
She said posting the clip took bravery as it’s a “big thing for me to be okay with showing that.”
“And that’s more important to me than people who are going to be horrified.”
The brief clip from October showed the comedian appearing on the podcast in a crop top, but it was enough to spark backlash “as if the video was of me pillaging and burning down a village,” Timpf joked.
Timpf clapped back at a troll in the comments of her post after they asked her why she was showing skin – even though it’s a typical move for pregnant women to show their bellies.
“Why is it important for you to leave this comment?” Timpf fired back at the Instagram user.
“In any case I’m proud of myself for being more comfortable with my ostomy scar and I happen to love this outfit! Hope people are nice to you today.”
She often responds to her critics on social media because they show empathy and back down “nine times out of ten.”
“Sometimes, some of [the comments] will bother me,” she admitted.
“It’s more so the state of the world,” she added, chalking it up to America’s divisive nature, which is one of the topics covered in her latest book I Used to Like You Until…: (How Binary Thinking Divides Us).
I get a lot of people telling me to stop talking about it and they’re sick of hearing about it. I’m like, ‘I’m so sorry that my pregnancy has been hard for you.’
Kat Timpf
Timpf said the barrage of comments on posts about her stomach was relentless.
“Now if I need to get engagement up on my video I just need to wear a crop top and I’ll have people calling me horrible and disgusting,” she joked.
RESPONSE TO TROLLS
She said a number of trolls said they were annoyed with hearing about her pregnancy.
“I get a lot of people telling me to stop talking about it and they’re sick of hearing about it,” Timpf said.
“I’m like, ‘I’m so sorry that my pregnancy has been hard for you.’
“It’s nine months of my life and then I’m not gonna talk about it anymore and it’s not gonna be happening.”
She added, “I talk about what’s going on in my life.”
In a video from October 25, Timpf clapped back at critics who said she made being pregnant her entire personality.
“Hell yeah, it’s my whole personality. This thing that affects my whole life also affects my whole personality,” Timpf said.
HATE FROM BOTH SIDES
The firebrand, a self-professed independent, said she gets hate from both sides of the political spectrum.
“I get it from both sides because if I say something that viewers dont wanna hear on Fox… I’ll get it from them sometimes,” she said.
“But then I’ll get it from the other side because I work at Fox in the first place.”
Timpf has friends on both sides of the party lines and said she doesn’t let political views affect her relationships.
“Politics makes us fight with people that we know on behalf of people who don’t even know we exist,” she explained.
“We have so much to lose in terms of our relationships with each other but also in terms of our freedom.
“The more divided we are, the easier we are to control.”
PENDING DUE DATE
Timpf is working on Fox through the very last days of her pregnancy.
She finished up the press tour for her latest book, which came out in September, in the middle of December.
Timpf said in October that she never considered skipping the tour, despite her schedule meaning she would finish the run of shows at 32 weeks pregnant.
“I’m gonna do it. I went on television with an ileostomy so I can do shows pregnant,” she said.
The author is due any day now – she even posted an Instagram reel on Tuesday revealing she’s past her due date.
“Yes, I’m still pregnant. Yes, I’m past my due date,” she said, joking that it was the “longest pregnancy of all time.”
OPENING UP ABOUT MOTHERHOOD
Timpf told The U.S. Sun she’s scared to be a mom for all of the unexpected challenges it’ll bring.
“I’m so terrified because I feel like you’ll never know what kind of kid you’re going to have,” she explained.
“I didn’t wait til I was 35 to do this because I’m not terrified of doing this.
“I’m gonna try to teach my kid how to think and not what to think.”
Her journey to motherhood is also full of new emotions as Timpf’s mom passed away on Election Day 10 years ago.
“It’s just so overwhelming for me to prepare to become a mom when I don’t even remember what it’s like to have a mom myself, sadly,” she said, echoing the moving opinion piece she penned for Fox last summer.
‘SAPPY’ CONFESSION
In the face of the intense emotions and unwarranted hate that pregnancy has brought her, Timpf said her feelings of excitement outweigh any concerns.
“This is so cheesy and so hack, but I’m so excited to do this with my husband,” she said.
“I have a great man as my husband and I just can’t wait to just do this with him.”
Timpf and Friscia, a military veteran, have been married since 2021.
She’s previously said that she wasn’t sure she wanted to get married or have a family before Friscia came along, according to People.
Timpf told The U.S. Sun, “This is so weird but I’ve been let down by so many things in my life: people and pursuits and I’m never gonna regret giving love to this child.
“I know that’s kind of sappy and it’s kind of weird to even hear myself talk like that but that’s what I’m really excited about.”
She added, “I’m so excited for this to be over because I just can’t wait to meet my kid.”
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