If any of you are planning to go to Los Angeles any time soon, don't drink the water whatever you do – chances are you'll end up full of babies.

It's true – every female celebrity you can think of has announced a pregnancy in the last couple of weeks and now the trend's continuing with Mary Lynn Rajskub, 24's Chloe O'Brian, revealing that she's pregnant, too.

Of course, if real life was like 24 then Mary Lynn Rajskub would have to be pregnant for 6,480 episodes. But then if real life was like 24 then Mary Lynn Rajskub's baby would be an offensively stereotypical Muslim hellbent on trying to poison the world by pumping a deadly virus out of its mother's bumhole.

You might not have noticed it at the end of 24 season six – possibly because you were too busy shouting "What about the President? Is he dead?" or "A nuclear bomb went off 18 hours ago and you're staring at some rocks?!" or "I miss Michelle Dessler!" at the TV – but right near the end Chloe O'Brian announced that she was pregnant.

And now Mary Lynn Rajskub, the actress who plays Chloe O'Brian in 24, has announced that she's pregnant, too. Spooky, right? Almost as if women are naturally designed to conceive and give birth to babies, right? Anyway, E! Online reports:

The 24 star, who plays the now-pregnant computer whiz Chloe O'Brian, is expecting a baby with her personal trainer beau, Matthew Rolph, People reports. This will be the first child for both. The new addition is due toward the end of summer. "With the strike going on, I had to keep busy!" Rajskub, who got her start as a standup comic, told the magazine. "We are thrilled and couldn't be more excited." 

Ah yes, the writers' strike. While Kiefer Sutherland passed the time by going to jail, Mary Lynn Rajskub got to get knocked up instead. God knows how Bill Buchanan has been killing time. Trying to find more suits that exactly match the colour of his hair, probably.

It's such a shame that the writers' strike is continuing, because with Mary Lynn Rajskub pregnant and Chloe O'Brian pregnant, there'd have been no need for fake stomachs or any other prosthetics during filming. True, the time it takes to shoot an episode would make it look as if Chloe's stomach was being inflated by a maniac with a footpump, but that'd be no less realistic than anything that happened during the last season of 24.

Still, though, congratulations to Mary Lynn Rajskub and her boyfriend. At least this way when Jennifer and Angelina and Gwen and Jessica and Halle and Nicole all have happy little babies running round being nice to each other in a few months, Mary Lynn Rajskub's tot can provide the stroppy, eye-rolling, socially-awkward counterbalance.

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24's Rajskub Counts Down to Motherhood - E! Online