This article first appeared on MadameNoire.com
Yesterday, off of the high from her NAACP Image Award wins, Kerry Washington attended a baby shower hosted by Shonda Rhimes in her Hancock Park home. The star studded event included Tracee Ellis Ross, Jane Fonda and legendary actresses Cicely Tyson and Diahann Carroll. And of course she and Nnamdi Asomugha’s family members.
Jane Fonda posted a couple of pictures from the event on her personal blog. Pictured above, from left to right are Kerry’s sister-in-law Chisara Asomugha, Fonda, Cicely Tyson, Kerry’s other sister-in-law, Udo Asomugha (in red), Kerry, Diahann Carroll and Kerry’s mother-in-law, Dr. Lilian Asomugha.
In the back you can see Kerry’s “Scandal” co-stars, Darby Stanchfield (“Abby”) and Katie Lowes (“Quinn”), in the back and a woman that looks like she could be Shonda Rhimes. The “Scandal” family is real.
The shower was supposed to be a private affair, but paparazzi caught pictures of the guests, Kerry and her mother walking into the venue.
It seemed like it was a beautiful event and Jane Fonda, who revealed that Kerry is 7 months pregnant, shared how she was brought to tears once Washington arrived.
“I hadn’t seen Kerry since she was pregnant and as soon as I saw her with her gorgeous belly I starting crying. Then Kerry’s mother spoke, giving words of wisdom to Kerry and the rest of us about how to raise a baby to be a happy, fully realized, person. I started crying again (and it wasn’t because I wanted to go back and do my own raising of my own kids all over again with more wisdom, though that did press in on me) . . . it was because her words moved me.”
Check out the photos below: