Actress Barbie Hsu (徐熙媛) is, once again, rumored to be pregnant.

“Insiders” are saying Barbie and her husband Wang Xiaofei’s (汪小菲) friends in Beijing are openly talking about the baby to be.

In response, Barbie will not accept new work commitments, including an offer from Jiangsu Satellite TV to appear at its Spring Festival Gala with boy band F4.

Since Barbie and Xiaofei tied the knot in March 2011, the 36-year-old has pulled out all the stops to try and get pregnant (including having sex, presumably).

The former vegetarian has changed her diet, started to eat meat and put on weight.

She has also visited traditional Chinese medicine doctors to strengthen her physique.

It was previously reported that her mother-in-law Zhang Lan (张兰), founder of a restaurant chain in China, asked her son to choose between herself and Barbie if the latter could not produce offspring.

Which sounds weirdly incestuous.