With her grand return to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — and third pregnancy — it's understandable why viewers have questions over if Kelli Giddish is pregnant in real life and how much Amanda Rollins' pregnancy on SVU mirrors the actor's off-screen reality.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — also known as SVU — is NBC's procedural drama series following the personal and professional lives of detectives at the New York Police Department's 16th precinct's Special Victims Unit, which investigates and prosecutes various sexually oriented crimes.

The unit is lead by Olivia Benson, the Captain and Commanding Officer of the Manhattan Special Victims Unit. Giddish plays Amanda Rollins, a detective with the Manhattan special Victims Unit, who joined SVU in Season 13 and left in Season 24.

In an interview with Variety in December 2022, Giddish explained why she left SVU after almost a decade on the series. "I started playing her in my late 20s, so I've played her in three decades of my life, which is nuts.

It's insane," she said. "This is a show unlike any other. Shows don't last 12 years, much less getting to play a character. With playing someone as multi-faceted as Rollins, I got to play all kinds of different things — down and out, on top, joyful, doubtful, scared, triumphant.

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