Emma Roberts made a playful effort to beat her mom, Kelly Cunningham, to the punch this week when it got here to acknowledging a private milestone.
On Tuesday, Roberts introduced her engagement to fellow actor Cody John by sharing a surprising photograph of the couple posing by a lake on Instagram.
Within the accompanying caption, the “American Horror Story” actor wrote that she was “putting this here before my mom tells everyone.”
As followers could recall, Cunningham by accident broke the information of Roberts’ 2020 being pregnant over social media earlier than she had the possibility to take action herself. On the time, Cunningham was responding to Instagram customers who had tagged her in screenshots of a tabloid report.
“Mothers and Instagram, it’s a bad combination. It was a disaster and I found it all out on a plane, so I couldn’t get to her,” Roberts later recalled to Jimmy Kimmel.
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As to how the pair resolved the spat, she instructed Kimmel, “We kind of laughed. We kind of got in a fight. I blocked her at one point ― it was my only weapon!”
Roberts shares her now-3-year-old son, Rhodes, with ex-boyfriend Garrett Hedlund.
John, whose credit embody “NCIS” and “Wu-Tang: An American Saga,” first confirmed his relationship with Roberts on Instagram in August 2022. They’ve since shared a number of pictures collectively on the social media platform.
Roberts beforehand talked concerning the challenges of publicizing relationships on social media, telling Cosmopolitan in 2019, “I never want to talk about relationships I’m in or that are ending or have ended. It’s hard enough to be with someone by yourself, let alone with an audience.”
“Because of Twitter and Instagram, there’s a whole other element where everybody can comment on what you’re doing and no one knows the real story,” she continued. “That’s hard.”
