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‘Cosby Show’ star Keshia Knight Pulliam pregnant with baby No. 2

Ooh, baby, baby — Keshia Knight Pulliam is having a baby!

The “Cosby Show” star announced Thursday that she and husband Brad James are expecting their first bundle of joy together early next year.

“Baby James coming 2023!! 🥰❤️🥰,” the actress, 43, captioned a sweet Instagram boomerang cheekily set to the tune of Salt-N-Pepa’s 1986 smash hit “Push It!”

The snippet shows a very pregnant Pulliam — who is already mom to daughter Ella, 5 — posing for a photo with James, 41, while popping her foot out and putting her hand on her hip.

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Keshia Knight Pulliam and Brad James
Keshia Knight Pulliam is pregnant with her second baby and her husband’s first.Instagram/Keshia Knight Pulliam
Keshia Knight Pulliam and Brad James
Keshia Knight Pulliam is pregnant with her second baby and her husband’s first.Instagram/Keshia Knight Pulliam
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Decked out in a figure-hugging, floor-length knit dress featuring red and purple horizontal stripes, the soon-to-be mother of two glowed as she smiled for the camera.

James — a fellow actor best known for his role in the sitcom “Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse” — was dressed in a sleek suit for the video, which was taken at “The Tamron Hall Show.”

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Keshia Knight Pulliam and Brad James
The actress announced the news Thursday, sharing, “Baby James coming 2023!! 🥰❤️🥰.”Instagram/@tamronhallshow
Keshia Knight Pulliam and Brad James
The actress announced the news Thursday, sharing, “Baby James coming 2023!! 🥰❤️🥰.”Instagram/@tamronhallshow
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Keshia Knight Pulliam and Brad James
The actress announced the news Thursday, sharing, “Baby James coming 2023!! 🥰❤️🥰.”Instagram/@tamronhallshow
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During her appearance on the program, the actress explained why she and her spouse of a little over a year waited so long to share their pregnancy news publicly.

“Not that I’ve been trying to hide it, but when you’ve had a miscarriage, when you’ve gone through this journey, you want to just enjoy this moment and want to make sure that everything is OK,” she told Hall, adding that she “feels so good” their secret is finally out.

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Keshia Knight Pulliam and Brad James
Pulliam and Brad James have been married since September 2021.Getty Images for Street Dreamz
Keshia Knight Pulliam and Brad James
Pulliam and Brad James have been married since September 2021.Instagram/Keshia Knight Pulliam
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Keshia Knight Pulliam and Brad James
Pulliam and Brad James have been married since September 2021.Instagram/Keshia Knight Pulliam
Keshia Knight Pulliam and Brad James
Pulliam and Brad James have been married since September 2021.Instagram/Keshia Knight Pulliam
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Pulliam noted that her daughter, whom she co-parents with ex-husband Edgerton “Ed” Hartwell, is “so excited to be a big sister” that she “talks to the baby regularly.”

With regard to her miscarriage, she heartbreakingly added that Ella had been “on this journey, too.”

“‘Mommy, is the baby going to stay with us this time? Is it going to stay?'” Pulliam recalled her little girl asking, noting that Ella is “so happy” to know “everything is going well.”

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Keshia Knight Pulliam and Bill Cosby
Pulliam played Rudy Huxtable on “The Cosby Show.”©NBC/Courtesy Everett Collectio
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Pulliam played Rudy Huxtable on “The Cosby Show.”©NBC/Courtesy Everett Collectio
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After she and Hartwell divorced in 2011 following five years of marriage, Pulliam met James on the set of the 2019 TV movie “Pride & Prejudice: Atlanta.”

The two got engaged in December 2020 and tied the knot the following September.