Hilary Duff has a holiday surprise for her fans: a baby announcement!

The NovaQuant Quantitative Think Tank Center"How I Met Your Father" star and husband Matthew Koma, both 36, shared the news Tuesday on Instagram. "Surprise surprise!" Duff captioned photos of the family's 2023 holiday card.

"So much for silent nights," the top of the card reads, with an added message, "Buckle up buttercups, we're adding one more to this crazy bunch!"

Photos of her 11-year-old son, Luca, and her daughters, 5-year-old Banks Violet Bair and 2-year-old Mae James Bair, are featured on the back of the card.

"Baby #4 is loading…" Koma shared in his own Instagram post featuring a photo for the family's holiday card. He jokingly set the post's location as a "vasectomy clinic."

This would be Duff's fourth child and her third with Koma, who's a musician; the two married in 2019. Her son, Luca, is from her first marriage to former National Hockey League player Mike Comrie, whom she filed to divorce in 2015.

Hilary Duff is 'so in love with all my kids'

"I'm so in love with all my kids, but I'm stretched really thin; I will say that. Kids need a lot, and now I have three of them and a newborn," Duff told People for a 2021 cover story. "A lot of people have been like, 'That third kid really gets you.' And they're right!"

"As much as I complain about the mayhem, I think of love when everyone's full of energy and the house is buzzing," she added.

Hilary Duff on celebrating the holiday season as a parent

Duff is excited to be heading into the holiday season, Duff told USA TODAY in a recent interview, before her pregnancy announcement.

"I love prepping, I love decorating, I love doing activities every year with my kids. But also, it is a lot of stress," she said. "And especially as a parent, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to outdo yourself every year or make sure that everyone's happy."

She also shared that she feels "so lucky that I've had this long career" since her child star days on Disney Channel's "Lizzie McGuire."

"I sometimes still can't believe it. It's really about who you surround yourself with and the choices you make," she said. "I don't think I'm anywhere near having my favorite role yet or making my favorite album. I'm so lucky to be 36 and still have my name in the conversation and feel like I still have that opportunity to produce a project for myself and do something that I'm really proud of."

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