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Carly Rae Jepsen is celebrating her 40th birthday in style!
The pop star, who is pregnant with her first child, shared a series of photos to Instagram on Friday, Nov. 21 in honor of her big day.
“Forty and fabulous exclamation mark ❗️Milestone bday,” she captioned the post. “If I’m doing my job right, things will just get weirder from here on out. I plan to wear all the wild outfits, keep exploring in music and art and embrace this new chapter head on (or sometimes w a fuzzy hat).”
Jepsen, who married music producer Cole M.G.N. in October, concluded her message with a toast to “more adventures, more incredible friendships, traveling w a baby (help!) and just more love all around.”
“Can’t wait for it all. ♥️,” she wrote.
The “Shy Boy” singer’s carousel of photos included a number of shots of her wearing a fuzzy white hat, including one of her admiring her birthday cake while sitting on a windowsill.
She also shared a throwback photo of herself eating a caramel apple as a child, photos of her husband, floral arrangements and a sweet video of a birthday card left for her on a hotel bed by Cole.
Jepsen’s birthday cake seemingly featured layers of vanilla cake filled with whipped cream and topped with raspberries, and she gave a shoutout to the New York City-based cake shop Gigi’s Eats for the “yummy” treat.
The singer-songwriter announced her pregnancy on Nov. 3 with a series of black-and-white shots featuring her and Cole.
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“Oh hi baby ♥️,” she captioned the post.
She marked six months of pregnancy on Nov. 19 with an Instagram post that joked she was “hiking at a pace much slower than usual.”
Jepsen previously told PEOPLE that she and Cole (real name Cole Marsden Greif-Neill) met while collaborating on her 2023 album The Loveliest Time, with the song “So Right” specifically serving as their “meet-cute.”
“We’ll go traveling somewhere, and we’ll bring a little acoustic guitar,” she added of their dynamic. “I think you’ll see a lot more of our collaboration together for future projects, but [‘So Right’] is our first little baby out in the world. We’re both so excited.”
October was a busy month for the star, as she also celebrated the 10-year anniversary of her cult classic album Emotion. To mark the decade, she released a new version of the record with four unreleased tracks and two new remixes.
