Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco hits back at intrusive pregnancy rumours

‘Would you walk up to me and ask this straight to my face?’

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The Big Bang Theory actor Kaley Cuoco has responded to rumours that she’s expecting a baby, criticising insensitive individuals for leaving prying comments on her Instagram profile.

Cuoco and her husband Karl Cook are currently on their honeymoon in Switzerland, having tied the knot on 30 June this year.

Her most recent Instagram photo sets a very romantic scene, showing the pair kissing in the southern city of Lugano while on their marital getaway.

While many people have left comments underneath the photo wishing the couple well, others have been nosily focusing their attention on whether or not Cuoco appears to be pregnant.

"Are you hiding a baby bump?!?!" one person wrote, with another asking: "When's the baby due??"

Cuoco decided to respond directly to the inconsiderate comments, highlighting the way in which many people often express themselves differently on the Internet than they would in real life.

"I'm so sorry I bent over in a way to where my dress billowed in the wind and made you think this," she wrote on her Instagram story in reference to the comments, according to People magazine.

"Would you walk up to me and ask this straight to my face?"

Female celebrities are frequently plagued with rumours concerning whether or not they're pregnant, something that actor Jennifer Aniston addressed in an essay written for HuffPost in 2016.

Following speculation that she was expecting a child with her ex-husband Justin Theroux, Aniston wrote: "For the record, I am not pregnant. What I am is fed up."

"If I am some kind of symbol to some people out there, then clearly I am an example of the lens through which we, as a society, view our mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, female friends and colleagues," she continued.

"The objectification and scrutiny we put women through is absurd and disturbing."

Actor Lili Reinhart, who stars in high school drama Riverdale, also addressed pregnancy rumours in early 2018 after fans postulated that she may be expecting a baby.

"It's unfortunate that one unflattering photo of my stomach circulating the Internet causes hundreds of people to think that I'm pregnant," she wrote on her Instagram story, according to Glamour magazine.

"Nope. Not pregnant. This is just my body. And sometimes I'm bloated.

"Sometimes an unflattering photo is taken of me. Sometimes I go through periods of time where I gain weight."

Shortly after her wedding to Cook, Cuoco had to undergo shoulder surgery that had been planned a year in advance.

Following the operation, she posted a photo of herself in a hospital bed on Instagram alongside her husband.

"When your 'honeymoon' is shoulder surgery and your husband looks just as happy lol on the road to recovery," she wrote in the caption.