After much speculation, Grimes confirms she is seven months pregnant

Hours ahead of the due date for her new album, “Miss Anthropocene,� Canadian singer and producer Grimes casually revealed she is approaching another major due date — because she’s seven months pregnant.

Rumors have been swirling around the “Oblivion� hitmaker’s potential pregnancy status for some time since Grimes nonchalantly wrote on Instagram nearly two months ago that she was “knocked up.� On Thursday, the 31-year-old artist took to the social media platform again — this time to unveil her new digital avatar, WarNymph, in tandem with her album and an update on her health.

“TMI here — but prob out of album stress? x too much work etc I was mega sick last night (it was rough haha ... sorry for tmi) but it rly makes the reason we made the [WarNymph] all the more relevant to me,� she wrote. “At 7 months pregnant, I sent my avatar to represent me for the cover of The Face magazine!�

In the caption for her Face cover, Grimes went on to explain that “a huge part of� her decision to create the ironically baby-like avatar as a cyber stand-in for herself was in anticipation for the limitations she would encounter in maternity as she prepared for Friday’s release of “Miss Anthropocene.�

The speculative father of her unborn child is 48-year-old Tesla and SpaceX mastermind Elon Musk, with whom the pop star has been romantically linked since they walked the “heavenly bodies�-themed carpet together at the 2018 Met Gala.

While Musk has not publicly disclosed his paternity status, he has dropped some subtle hints on social media. In January, he left a cryptic comment under (what can now be confirmed as) a pregnancy photo Grimes posted, in addition to tweeting a baby emoji in response to a video featuring one of her songs.

In her sprawling cover interview with the Face, Grimes detailed the “techno�-feminist inspirations behind the Balenciaga-wearing WarNymph, as well as her views on motherhood.

“Having a digital body allows me to keep working throughout the later stages of my pregnancy, and after I have my baby, so I can spend more time with them,� the performer said. “It’s hard for me to do photoshoots and fit into clothes at the moment, but WarNymph is here in your magazine promoting my album for me ... A lot of my friends aren’t having babies because they’re worried about their careers, and we wanted to find a way to overcome this issue.�

She also admitted that the baby names people have snarkily suggested online — obscure computer codes and “ERROR404� alerts among them — have been “on point� and that her virtual alter ego’s uncanny resemblance to an infant wasn’t entirely coincidental.

“Can’t deny it,� she said. “I knew being pregnant and starting her off as a baby would cause some trouble.�

“Miss Anthropocene,� which has 15 tracks, is available for download.