“Claim Checked: Is Erika Kirk Expecting Their Third Child?”

This child is a gift — a piece of Char­lie I still car­ry,’ Eri­ka Kirk appar­ent­ly said while announc­ing the preg­nan­cy

GLENDALE, ARIZONA: After con­ser­v­a­tive activist Char­lie Kirk was fatal­ly shot in Sep­tem­ber 2025, social media lit up with claims that his wife, Eri­ka Kirk, is preg­nant with their third child.

The cou­ple mar­ried in Ari­zona in 2021 and have a three-year-old daugh­ter and a one-year-old son togeth­er.

But is there any truth to this claim? Where did it orig­i­nate, and has Eri­ka addressed it pub­licly? Here’s what we know.

Where does the claim about Eri­ka Kirk’s preg­nan­cy stem from?

The claim about Eri­ka Kirk’s preg­nan­cy began with a Face­book post shared on Sep­tem­ber 27, 2025. The post quot­ed Eri­ka as say­ing, “This child is a gift — a piece of Char­lie I still car­ry.” It claimed she made the announce­ment just 30 min­utes ear­li­er, sur­pris­ing many with news that was both emo­tion­al and uplift­ing.

Accord­ing to the post, Eri­ka, still griev­ing the loss of her hus­band Char­lie, revealed she was expect­ing their third child, a baby she described as part of the Turn­ing Point USA founder’s lega­cy.

The claim quick­ly spread across Face­book and YouTube. Many posts includ­ed links in the com­ments that led to click­bait-style arti­cles filled with ads, all claim­ing Eri­ka was preg­nant. Some users even sug­gest­ed that Eri­ka had orig­i­nal­ly planned to reveal the preg­nan­cy on Sep­tem­ber 16, 2025.

That the­o­ry like­ly orig­i­nat­ed from a social media post she shared on Sep­tem­ber 2, which includ­ed a mys­te­ri­ous mes­sage: “…walk the count­down with us. 9.16.2025.” In a video attached to the post, Eri­ka is heard say­ing, “What if child­hood could hold eter­ni­ty?” — a line that added to the spec­u­la­tion.

Fact Check: Eri­ka Kirk is not preg­nant

The rumors about Eri­ka Kirk’s preg­nan­cy are false. Unknown sources cre­at­ed these unver­i­fied claims to gen­er­ate adver­tis­ing rev­enue for linked exter­nal web­sites.

One of these web­sites dis­played a ‘USA News’ logo, a source known for pub­lish­ing false sto­ries about MSNBC hosts. Addi­tion­al­ly, the web­site used images cre­at­ed with arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence soft­ware to sup­port the false sto­ry about Eri­ka. The posts and arti­cles also con­tained AI-gen­er­at­ed text.

More­over, the count­down video did not relate to a preg­nan­cy, and Eri­ka had not made any such announce­ment on Insta­gram.

Has Eri­ka Kirk talked about her preg­nan­cy pub­licly?

As of this writ­ing, no cred­i­ble evi­dence sup­ports the claim that Eri­ka Kirk is expect­ing a third child with her late hus­band, Char­lie Kirk. She has not con­firmed a preg­nan­cy on social media or in any pub­lic state­ments fol­low­ing Charlie’s death.

A review of Erika’s full speech at her husband’s memo­r­i­al ser­vice, held on Sep­tem­ber 21, 2025, in Ari­zona, revealed no men­tion of a preg­nan­cy, con­trary to the claims cir­cu­lat­ing on social media.

In a sep­a­rate video mes­sage post­ed to Insta­gram a few days after Char­lie’s death, Eri­ka addressed the pub­lic while stand­ing behind a lectern dis­play­ing a pho­to of her hus­band and a mes­sage that read: “May Char­lie be received into the mer­ci­ful arms of Jesus, our lov­ing Sav­ior.”

At no point in the video did she men­tion expect­ing anoth­er child. How­ev­er, she did speak lov­ing­ly about their fam­i­ly and ref­er­enced their two young chil­dren mul­ti­ple times. “But most of all, Char­lie loved his chil­dren. And he loved me with all of his heart. And I knew that. Every day, I knew that,” she said, describ­ing Char­lie as a “per­fect” father and hus­band.

In a sep­a­rate Insta­gram post, Eri­ka paid trib­ute to Char­lie with a pho­to of them and their two chil­dren. That post, like the oth­ers, did not con­tain any men­tion of a preg­nan­cy.