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Lea Michele offers to carry Jonathan Groff’s baby: ‘I love being pregnant’

Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff posing for a photo together
Lea Michele told best friend Jonathan Groff that she’d happily be his surrogate if he decides he wants a baby.FilmMagic

Lea Michele said she’d happily carry Jonathan Groff’s baby – if he wants to be a dad someday.

“I’ll carry your baby. I will,” the actress told her former “Spring Awakening” co-star, who came out as gay in 2009, in an interview with People.

“You will?” Groff, 37, asked, to which Michele, 35, replied, “Hell yeah! I love being pregnant. It’s so much fun.”

The conversation started after Groff was asked if he had baby fever after hanging out with parents like Michele, who welcomed son Ever with husband Zandy Reich in August 2020.

“I have this weird quirk where I scare small children,” Groff joked. “Because — this was with my two nieces as well, between the ages of 0 and 2 — I come in hot with the enthusiasm, and it freaks them out.”

The “Hamilton” star explained that the same thing happened with Michele’s baby boy.

“So I’m slowly trying to play it cool to gain his love and affection back,” he shared.

A photo of Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff posing for a photo together
“I love being pregnant. It’s so much fun,” Michele told her former co-star. Getty Images

Michele and Groff met in 2006 when they starred in the Broadway musical “Spring Awakening” as Wendla and Melchior, respectively.

The two became even closer when he played Jesse St. James on “Glee,” with Michele in the lead role as Rachel Berry, from 2009 to 2015.

Lea Michele posing pregnant
Groff joked that he needs to “play it cool” with Michele’s son. Instagram/ Lea Michele

Michele later made Groff her maid of honor when she tied the knot with Reich in Northern California on March 9, 2019. The couple began dating in 2017 and got engaged in April 2018.

Most recently, the close pals worked together on a one-night-only “Spring Awakening” revival in November 2021. The original cast reunited for the benefit concert, which was filmed for an HBO documentary set to air on May 3.