The parentage of Jan’s baby in The Office has caused much speculation over the years, including a few key theories on Dunder Mifflin employees as the father. Jan Levinson (Melora Hardin) is a recurring character in several seasons of The Office, beginning as Michael Scott’s corporate boss for the first three seasons. After her divorce and much flirting on Michael’s part, Jan and Michael begin dating officially in the third season. After being fired and broken up with by Michael, Jan is revealed to be pregnant at the end of season 4. Her role is diminished throughout the rest of the series, with a few key appearances later in the show that leads to Dunder Mifflin securing her new company as a key account in the ninth and final season.

In the season 4 finale, “Goodbye Toby,” Kevin runs into Jan at the grocery store, whereafter Michael finds out that Jan is surprisingly quite pregnant. Since she is far enough along that it was not too recent of a conception, Michael surmises that the baby is his. Jan informs Michael that while the baby was conceived while they were still together, he is not the father. Jan explains that she went to a sperm bank while she and Michael were dating, though not all fans believe this was the real way Jan’s baby, Astrid, was conceived.

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There are two main theories about who Astrid’s father could be: one actually involves a donation at the sperm bank, while another suggests Jan was having a very illegal affair during her relationship with Michael. The first theory is that Kevin is actually Astrid’s father, having donated frequently at the same sperm bank. The second is that Jan was having an affair with her assistant Hunter, who was only 17 at the time. Both hold some ground that could be true, but fans have run with Hunter being the father since the season 4 revelation.

The father of Jan's baby on The Office is tennis star Andy Roddick

The theory about Kevin Malone being Astrid’s father is based on a deleted scene from the season 5 episode “Baby Shower” where Jan shows up with an already-born Astrid. Since the scene is in the original script and was shot, it can be considered a canonical theory that Kevin has a small chance of being the father. The scene plays out at the baby shower where Kevin tells Jan that he donated sperm and suggests he may be the father, to which Jan says it was a high-end establishment so it’s unlikely. Kevin then clarifies the one he went to was by the IHOP, which Jan had already told Michael was the place she went to.

The popular fan theory about Hunter being the baby’s father actually holds more water in fan lore than Kevin’s theory. The Hunter theory is based on the strange dynamic that Jan has with her 17-year-old assistant, exemplified by the season 4 classic episode “Dinner Party” when Jan plays a song by Hunter whose lyrics indicate Jan took his virginity: “You took me by the hand, made me a man, that one night.” Since the relationship is theorized to have occurred while Jan was still dating Michael, the timeline matches up that he could have gotten her pregnant around the same time she claimed to have gone to a sperm donor.

Unfortunately for the investigative fans over the past decade, Jenna Fischer (Pam) and Angela Kinsey (Angela) debunked the theories on an episode of their Office Ladies podcast back in May 2021. An unfilmed deleted scene on the “Goodbye Toby” draft script actually reveals the identity of Jan’s top-dollar sperm donor. Jan apparently reveals that she paid a lot of money to get tennis champ, Andy Roddick, as her sperm donor. According to Office Ladies, Roddick was a huge fan of The Office, so the writers included him as Astrid’s father as an homage.

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