Did Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, make public remarks about a third pregnancy in September 2025? No, that's not true: No such announcement appeared on her social media accounts. Furthermore, no credible journalistic organizations reported that between the September 10, 2025, assassination of Charlie Kirk and October 1, 2025.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on Facebook on September 17, 2025. It opened:
In a deeply emotional update just 30 minutes ago, Erika Kirk, widow of the late Charlie Kirk, shared the bittersweet news that she is pregnant with their third child. - 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙈𝙤rehttps://celebupdate24h.com/5anf6eThe announcement, made amidst her profound grief, has left fans and supporters both heartbroken and uplifted.
One of the images attached to the post appeared to show the crying widow of Charlie Kirk holding a sonogram in her hands. This is what it looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at facebook.com/XDiv.HD)
Two online AI detectors, Hive Moderation and AI or Not, said that the image of Erika Kirk holding the sonogram was not an authentic photograph but a product of generative AI:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Hive Moderation)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of AI or Not)
The link shared in the post on Facebook, reviewed in this fact check, led to an article containing what was presented as a direct quote from the purported announcement:
Her words pierced through the heavy atmosphere. 'Our children will always know who their father was -- his love for them, his faith, and his courage. And one day, when this little one is born, they will carry that same story forward.'
The article explicitly said that the supposed announcement was made public for a wide audience:
When Erika's revelation became public, the reaction was immediate and wide-ranging. On social media, hashtags like #LegacyOfLove and #BabyKirk began trending...
None of it, however, was true.
Lead Stories manually reviewed Erika Kirk's social media accounts, but no such pregnancy announcement appeared on her pages on X and Instagram.
Searches across Google News and Yahoo News (archived here) did not yield journalistic reports about the pregnancy announcement. A search for an exact wording of the purported quote from Erika Kirk only showed duplicates of the claim.
Searches on X showed that while some posts about Charlie Kirk did mention the #LegacyOfLove hashtag, none of them combined it with #babykirk or posted anything mentioning #babykirk separately during the period between the assassination of the conservative activist and this writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of x.com)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of X.com)
The Google Trends data for the past 90 days indicated that people were not massively searching the hashtags mentioned in the article:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Google Trends)
Two AI detectors, GPTzero and Quillbot, concluded that the article was written by AI:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot GPTzero)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of quillbot.com)
