How did Amy get pregnant?

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At the end of Gone Girl, Amy is pregnant and this is the reason that Nick decides to stay with her.

However, it is unclear to me who the father really is.

Is it Desi or is it Nick from before the disappearance?

Is this clarified in the book?



Best Answer

Wikipedia clarifies:

Nick intends to leave Amy and expose her lies, but Amy reveals she is pregnant, having artificially inseminated herself with Nick's sperm stored at a fertility clinic.

...the same is true in the novel:

Amy uses Nick's semen they had saved at a fertility clinic to make herself pregnant.




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How did Amy become pregnant?

Towards the end, Amy plans her transition back into Nick's life. She conceives a baby through Nick's sperm she saved from when she tricked him into going to a fertility clinic months ago.

Who did Amy get pregnant with?

Amy Slaton recently announced that she and her husband, Michael Halterman, are expecting a new baby. This will be the second pregnancy that TLC fans have gotten to watch Amy go through as she and Halterman had their first child, Gage, in season 2.

Which of these did Nick do after he found out Amy was really pregnant?

Nick gets the news about Amy from Boney herself: Amy was indeed pregnant. Willing himself to respond the correct way, Nick lays his head in his heads and murmurs Oh God, Oh God over and over again.

Why did Amy frame Nick?

After discovering Nick's affair, she became angry at his disregard for her and planned extensively for a year to fake her death and frame Nick as revenge for wasting her life. Her pregnancy, years of diary entries, and other evidence were fabricated in order to incriminate Nick.



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