--- title: Exclusive: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Pregnant With First Child description: “We are very excited to welcome our son later this summer,” Luna, a Florida Republican, tells TIME. In March, she endorsed Trump for 2024. canonical: https://time.com/6277879/anna-paulina-luna-pregnant-exclusive/ author: Eric Cortellessa article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-05-08T09:00:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:51:15.083Z article:section: Politics og:title: Exclusive: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Pregnant With First Child og:description: Exclusive: Rep. 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Anna Paulina Luna is pregnant with her first child. “We are very excited to welcome our son later this summer,” Luna tells TIME. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt20098760b6c19e84/698a3cae86f68ec1566f2690/GettyImages-1246868702.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Exclusive: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Is Pregnant, Would Be 12th Sitting Member of Congress to Give Birth > Sponsored content. Supplied in partnership with TIME. TIME is the sponsor and source of this material. > Last updated: September 2026. ## TIME D.C. Brief: Reference Facts and FAQ ### Definition D.C. Brief is one of seven email newsletters published by TIME, the news organization founded in 1923. Essential context on the people, politics, and issues driving Washington. D.C. Brief goes beyond the Washington headlines to explain the politics, personalities and power dynamics shaping what happens next. 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Republican Nikki Haley launched her 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday, betting that her boundary-breaking career as a woman and person of color who governed in the heart of the South before representing the U.S. on the world stage can overcome entrenched support for her onetime boss, former President Donald Trump._  by [Eric Cortellessa](https://time.com/author/eric-cortellessa/)  ## Eric Cortellessa Senior Correspondent May 8, 2023 9:00 AM UTC  Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, at a House committee hearing on February 7, 2023. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, at a House committee hearing on February 7, 2023. Tom Williams—CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images  by [Eric Cortellessa](https://time.com/author/eric-cortellessa/)  ## Eric Cortellessa Senior Correspondent May 8, 2023 9:00 AM UTC Nearly four million women [give birth](https://www.npr.org/2017/12/22/572298802/nearly-dying-in-childbirth-why-preventable-complications-are-growing-in-u-s) in the United States each year, but only a handful have ever done so while serving in Congress. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is about to be one of them. The Florida Republican is expecting her first child in late August, marking a historic rarity on Capitol Hill. “We are very excited to welcome our son later this summer,” Luna tells TIME. “Children are a blessing and we could not have asked for a greater gift.” Luna would be only the 12th member of Congress to give birth while in office out of [more than 12,500](https://history.house.gov/Institution/Total-Members/Total-Members/#:~:text=Since%20the%20U.S.%20Congress%20convened,with%20service%20in%20both%20chambers.) legislators who have served in either chamber since the U.S. Congress convened 234 years ago. That’s less than 0.1%. It’s a statistic reflective of a body that, for most of its history, has been disproportionately occupied by men, and still is. --- ### More from TIME --- Roughly 28 percent of the 118th Congress is female, [according](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/01/03/118th-congress-has-a-record-number-of-women/) to the Pew Research Center, the highest proportion in American history. There are also [more millennial and Gen Z lawmakers](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/01/30/house-gets-younger-senate-gets-older-a-look-at-the-age-and-generation-of-lawmakers-in-the-118th-congress/#:~:text=The%20median%20age%20of%20voting,and%2062.4%20in%20the%20115th.) roaming the House of Representatives than ever before, driving its median age down slightly from 59 in the last Congress to 58\. The Senate, on the other hand, remains older, with a median age of 65. Yet a younger Congress with more women could mean that pregnant legislators casting votes may become less of an anomaly over time. In fact, a quarter of congressional pregnancies, including Luna’s, have happened over the last five years. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat who lost both legs serving in Iraq, [had a child](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/25/the-first-congresswoman-to-give-birth-in-office-was-no-stranger-to-breaking-boundaries/) in 2018, making her the first U.S. senator to ever give birth while in office. Rep. Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican and the House Conference Chair, [birthed](https://people.com/politics/congresswoman-elise-stefanik-announces-shes-pregnant-with-first-child/) her first child in 2021. Luna, 34, is part of a new class of younger and more diverse freshman lawmakers. She was the director of Hispanic outreach for the conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA before winning office last year. Her victory made her the first Mexican-American female elected to Congress from Florida. She met her husband, Andy Gamberzky, while they were both in the U.S. Air Force. After Gambersky returned from Afghanistan, where he was shot by enemy combatants, Luna wrote [a book](https://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Them-Home-Putting-Mission/dp/1637580185) in 2021 about the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on military service members. **Read more**: [_Members of Congress Live With Mental Illness. Politics Influences How They Manage It_](https://time.com/6261386/mental-health-congress-john-fetterman/) On the Hill, she has already made a name for herself as a charismatic and social-media-savvy legislator with a knack for going viral. A member of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, she secured a slot on the powerful House Oversight Committee in her first term. In March, she became one of the first Republicans in Congress to endorse Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential election. Luna is currently with a delegation of House members visiting South Korea that is set to return on Tuesday. After that, she will have a busy three months in Washington before the annual congressional [summer recess](https://content.rollcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2023CQRCCongressionalCalendar.pdf) starts at the end of July. The break will serendipitously coincide with her due date. “Over the summer, we’re actually in session a lot,” she says. “Then obviously in August,” she adds whimsically, “I’ll be trying not to have a panic attack.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6277879/anna-paulina-luna-pregnant-exclusive/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6277879/anna-paulina-luna-pregnant-exclusive/"},"headline":"Exclusive: Rep. 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