Megyn Kelly: New hair, no sympathy for a maternity-leave skeptic

Megyn Kelly returned from maternity leave Monday with baby pictures, a new hairstyle and a hard time to give one talk-radio host about — you guessed it — maternity leave.

The "America Live" anchor also did the news, but given what that entailed Monday, let's just stick with the hair and baby angles.

The hair? Cute. The baby? Cute. Talk-radio host Mike Gallagher's recent comment that Megyn's three months of maternity leave was "a racket"? Not so cute — which Kelly, whose daughter Yardley Evans was born April 14, was happy to shine a light on. 

"Megyn's still on maternity leave, right? Boy ... what a racket that is," Gallagher had told Fox's Chris Wallace in May. "I mean, men don't get to bond. ... How much time does she get off?"

Three months, Wallace said , provoking the reply, "It's unbelievable ... do you think you'd get three months off? How much time did you get off when your kids where born?"

Wallace apparently had found a week off to be more than enough new-dad bonding time — while Gallagher apparently hoped the new mom would be so cut off from co-workers and the Internet that she'd never hear a peep about his blurt.

No such luck: Reporters who Kelly spoke to during her leave told her all about it. 

"What is it about getting pregnant and carrying a baby nine months," the smiling second-time mom said Monday, "that you don't think deserves a few months off, so bonding and recovery can take place? Hm?" And by the way, she said, did he know that the U.S. is the only "advanced" nation that doesn't mandate paid maternity leave?

A sheepish Gallagher chose to stick with his earlier explanation: "I was drinking that day."

Skip to the 3:30 mark to get past the ugly news of the day and go directly to Kelly tossing Gallagher into the diaper pail. The hair? Weigh in, in comments.

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Photo:  A screen grab of "America Live." Courtesy of FOX.

Megyn Kelly and hubby welcome baby girl Yardley Evans

Megyn Kelly, host of Fox News' afternoon show "America Live," welcomed a baby girl Thursday in New York.

"As you know Megyn Kelly does a fantastic job every day on this show, but today she did something even better," Martha MacCallum announced Thursday on Kelly's show. "She gave birth to a bouncing baby girl, and that little girl is named is Yardley Evans. ... Megyn -- we love you. Our hearts go out to you and little Yardley, all the best."

Yardley, born around 10 a.m. EDT and weighing in at 7 pounds, 12 ounces, is the second child for Kelly and her husband, businessman Douglas Brunt, who married in 2008. Big brother Edward Yates Brunt is 19 months old.

Before her final day on air the second time around, the anchor had a little fun, weighing in with five things that you should never say to a pregnant woman (see the video above).

Among them? Don't guess at the due date.

"You see, pregnant women — especially the second time around — get bigger faster and we don't want to play the guessing game," Kelly said. "If you ask me when I'm due and I'm vague, just be quiet. We both know you're wondering how I got so big so fast.

"You see, I would be smaller, but I have another human being developing inside of me."

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