Sarah Jessica Parker, star of HBO's "Sex and the City," calls her pregnancy a "wonderful surprise."
Parker, fresh off winning a Golden Globe earlier this year for her role as sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw, got the news she was expecting a child in March. She has been married to Matthew Broderick since 1997.
She plans to take five months off after "Sex and the City" finishes filming its fifth season of eight episodes in July.
"Relaxing is foreign to me," she told TV Guide. "But (soon) I'll have a baby. And my time will be taken up with something far more important than me."
Producers have decided not to include Parker's pregnancy in the show's plot. Instead, Carrie Bradshaw will get a book deal during the season.
"Carrie is the eternal single girl," executive producer Michael Patrick King said. "Sarah Jessica is having a baby; Carrie Bradshaw is having a cocktail."