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- Huh, is that a baby bump we spy? Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most creative ways that tv shows worked around real-life pregnancies. Our countdown includes "Monk," "Modern Family," "JAG," and more! What is YOUR favorite way a show hid an actress’s pregnancy? Let us know in the comments!
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Which hidden belly moment surprised you the most?
Number 2. How I met your Mother. The show Titus did a similar scene. The actress was pregnant and but was wearing a cheerleading outfit.
Hi @MsMojo. Sorry, but Marcia Cross's pregnancy segment is not correct.
She was indeed pregnant while shooting Season 3, and they did shoot some scenes in her home when she was put in bed rest. BUT her character was written out mid-season 3 while she was on maternity leave.
The fake pregnancy storyline came in season 4, when her character's daughter, Danielle, was pregnant, and Bree wanted to pass her baby as her own once her daughter gave birth. Marcia Cross was no longer pregnant by that point, and she took the fake baby bump several time that showed her svelte figure. I guess the fake pregnancy storyline was also a way to play a joke on Marcia's real life pregnancy on season 3.
I absolutely loved the way they did it on The Nanny. Of course we could tell CC was pregnant but it was readily acknowledged in the funniest ways without writing it into the show. LOVED THIS SHOW!
I totally agree. You knew she was pregnant.
Me too. Whoever came up with that idea has a great sense of humor
I think The Nanny was my favorite. That was pretty hilarious!
The Nanny was really good at breaking the fourth wall. They could laugh at themselves, and not take the show too seriously.
I love when CC tried to hide it
As good a job as some of the other shows have done at hiding pregnancies, The Nanniy's was my favorite because they simultaneously hid Lauren Lane's pregnancy and pointed out the ridiculousness of it at the same time.
Lauren Lane as CC was my fave. I love how they had to carry a poster for Baby.
The nanny was genius
Many years ago I got the opportunity to be in the audience for a taping of the show KATE & ALLIE. One of the leads, Susan Saint James was very pregnant at the time. Before the the taping started an emcee announced that since her character wasn't pregnant on the series, they would be doing some very creative ways to hide the pregnancy. It was hilarious because every time she entered she had these HUGE shopping bags with her. Then they would position her either sitting down with a pillow on her lap or standing behind some strategically placed object. It was so funny. Watching the show when it was broadcast, nobody could even tell she was pregnant at all.
Cool! Thanks for sharing this. I've sometimes wondered if they have someone bring the studio audience in on the "secret" in situations like that.
Wandavision hilariously pointed out the way classic sitcoms used to hide pregnancies, from having the actress wearing baggy clothes, be placed behind conveniently large objects, or shooting them from the head up, or sitting down. In fact, Wanda goes from barely showing, to being obviously expecting.
I know! 😂 That part cracked me up so much!
*I love CC*
The saddest instance of this was when Katey Sagal became pregnant on Married with Children. They wrote her pregnancy into Peg's storyline, even making her neighbor Marcy pregnant as well. Katey eventually had a miscarriage, so the writers used the "It was all a dream" trope to explain away the storyline.
That must have been so hard for Katey to do. :(
katey's later pregnancies were successful though only the showrunners hid her pregnancies
A lot of actresses choose not to have their pregnancies written into the storyline just in case of something like that happening, which is why it really annoys me when people online get frustrated that writers haven't incorporated an actress' real life pregnancy into a storyline. When that happens, it's usually the actress' choice, people!
For Alyson Hannigan, you missed the part where Lily got written out for several episodes of season 4 after Barney told a dirty joke that disturbed her ("What's the difference between peanut butter and jam?").
It must have been hard for Courteney Cox to act out Monica and Chandler's infertility struggles, since she was going through similar difficulties. Fortunately, she was able to have her daughter, Coco.
Even worse, she'd just miscarried when she had to perform the scene where the gang meet Ross and Rachel's baby for the first time.
CoCo
Like Courtney Cox.
My brother always said it would’ve been better if in the series finale, it was revealed that Monica and Chandler were going to have a baby naturally; with Courteney‘s real-life pregnancy serving as that child.
It may have been hard but also therapeutic. I don't think the writers would have done it if she didn't find value in the storyline. It may have been more beneficial than we know.
@@COMPFUNK2I like she didn't have her own. It was realistic. To then turn and have her actually pregnant wouldn't have been as special to me, at least. This showed what adoption from the beginning looks like when you're in contact with the birth mother. Shows weren't doing that then.
The most interesting thing to me is that Gillian Anderson’s pregnancy changed the trajectory of the XFiles when they decided to write her out temporarily as abducted. The emotions deepened extraordinarily and really made the show
CC’s pregnancy was hilarious
You know there were shows before the 90s! Where was Shelley Long from Cheers, Susan Saint James from Kate & Allie, Elizabeth Montgomery from Bewitched, etc.?
The nanny to me is #1
I'm surprised you didn't include Charmed's choice of having Piper lose her head for an episode to cover for Holly Marie Combs real life pregnancy.
Weird way to hide one was on Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Keiko O'Brian was pregnant & traveling with Major Kira & the Doctor somewhere in a shuttle/runabout & something happens to the ship & Keiko was injured & in danger of losing her baby so somehow through the science (fiction) of 24th century medicine, the Doctor was able to move Keiko's baby to Major Kira to cover for Nana Visitor's real life pregnancy. Then they came up with a reason for why they couldn't move the baby back, so Major Kira had to carry the baby to term.
Gates McFadden had the least weird one, with Dr. Crusher just getting bigger & bigger lab coats.
Also, this past season, Ghosts had Sam wearing a pumpkin costume to cover for Rose McIver's real life pregnancy & for the majority of the episodes of season 3, she was standing behind the counter a lot to sign guests in.
I love that story arc in DS9! The writers had a chance to be creative in the way Bajorans experience pregnancy and birth differently than humans.
I love how this topic is caricatured in "Home Improvement" where Wilsons face is always hidden behind something: a fence, flowers, a face mask, candles etc.
When Susan St. James was pregnant on "Kate & Aleey" they put her in a bunny costume for Halloween. They had her help carry a mattress upstairs and eventually they broke her foot and put in a hospital bed where she sat with the hospital tray table over her belly. I love that show! 💕
Great video! 🖕
Ms. Babcock’s was my favorite 🤣
Usually, it’s just covering their stomachs with shopping bags, laundry baskets, or something like that
Gene Roddenbery’s Andromeda. Lexa Doig was pregnant for part of season 5. Her character was an AI and could not get pregnant. Her robotic body was destroyed. Was not seen for awhile. She had two other ways of appearing. Her “on screen” shot where she’s a hologram shot from the neck up. Full body avatar/hologram. Appeared in AI world. Shot from behind talking to Dylan. To replace the robotic form that had been destroyed. Harper created a new AI form which believed itself to be human- Doyle. Lexa gave birth to her child. They recreated her original body and the ship had 2 AI robots.
I should have guessed that Lily taking offence to a dirty joke that Barney told was to cover for Alyson's pregnancy. While the joke itself wasn't very funny, her reaction certainly was.
And she held that “31 birthday” thing hostage at the end of season 4
You forgot Susan St James from Kate & Allie.
It is a shame you didn't mention Star Trek DS9. When Nana Visitor was pregnant at the end of Season 4, there was a space accident where Keiko O'Brien's unborn son was transferred to Kira. She had to carry the baby to term until the middle of Season 5. I think that was a pretty creative way to fit the pregnancy in and should have been included in this list. It wasn't the character who was pregnant with her own child, but a sci-fi, techno-babble, creative way to hide the actress's real life pregnancy. I know this one is kind of on the border there since Kira became a surrogate mother, but it wasn't in a conventional way.
I missed that one, too. It was one of the most creative ways to deal with an actress's pregnancy.
You forgot Danielle Panabaker, who was pregnant in between Flash Season 7 and Season 8.
yep
I didn't realize that's why she was gone. But then again, nothing on that show ever made sense
I noticed "I Love Lucy" didn't make the list. Lucille Ball was pregnant in real life, while she was filming her show. Not to mention, they were trying to find ways to hide her baby bump too. Also, while Lucille Ball was out having her baby, they found a way to continue filming the show. In some episodes, they would show Ricky talking to Ethel, with the help of flashbacks of Lucy, before her pregnancy.
And they weren't allowed to use the word pregnant in the show! When they wrote her pregnancy into the script in one season she was actually pregnant with her second child, Lucy Arnaz.
You missed one of the funniest lines in television. When Martin Crane advises Daphne that it took three Cranes to lift her.
Cici Babcock was my favorite because of the way she made fun of Elaine
😂😂😂 oh my God I want to see that ever episode where she pulls out that enclair this looks hilarious😂
They did a good job hiding Melissa Benoist's pregnancy on Supergirl.
I watched The Big Comfy Couch for a long time as a kid.
I’ve always wondered if Traylor Howard was actually pregnant in that Monk episode where she fakes being pregnant 😂 Her bump looked very real but I didn’t know if it was because she doesn’t look very pregnant in any of the other episodes. I guess she just did a lot of sitting or holding bags 😂
I also had no idea . But it’s so clever.
didn't they also have her character break their leg? or something like that? That's another really popular way to hide it.
@@rookeealding2803 Um…I don’t remember. I don’t think so
They did a great job of hiding it but I did catch a quick view of "junior" in one episode where they were trying to hide him/her behind a big bouquet of flowers.
I was expecting to see Trina McGee Boy Meets World. I remember watching the original airing of the Scream parody episode and asking myself if she was pregnant. I was shocked the network would have an actual pregnancy teen on a popular show. After waiting eons for dial up and an internet search found out she was in her mid to late twenties and married. After that I rewatched my VHS recordings of earlier episodes and laughed at how obvious it was at attempting to hide her bump. And for the rest of the season when the episodes aired I played spot the bump.
I always think it would be funny to have the person always off camera. "Where is Jane?" "She is making a beer run."
CC on the nanny should’ve been number one
Now you should do top 30 labor and delivery episodes
To me, it's Zooey Deschanel. Happy sunday afternoon, Rebecca. Take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well.
It's funny because they can cover the belly as much as they want but usually it ends showing in the face when the hormones start changing. The combination not showing the mid-part + fuller lips + convinient dissappearance for a couple of chapters is always a giveaway
Definitely C.C. Babcock was the best! One of the most endearing things about The Nanny was it never took itself seriously, unless the plot called for serious. I really miss shows like that... they sure don't make 'em like they used to!
B'ellana's engineering coat always cracked me up coz it was all too obvious that Dawson was pregnant but we Trekkies just rolled with it
The best hiding of a pregnancy is the second season of secret diary of a call girl. They used body doubles, because she needed to do a lot of sex scenes, but the top didn't match the bottom.
In Numb3rs when they hid Dianne Farr behind an insanely large bowl of popcorn.
‘We won’t include any series where it was written in. First up, pregnancy written into the show’ 🤔
Funnily enough - B'Ellana later WAS pregnant as she became Mrs. Paris. :D They had a baby girl in the story. ^^
Hers cracked me up because she suddenly started wearing her shirts untucked. That's definitely NOT regulation and it's never acknowledged. Writing in for the last few episodes, even as a holographic projection, was pretty smart
The Disney Channel show "Good Luck, Charlie" had the actress Leigh Allyn-Baker pregnant for one season when she was not actually pregnant, but then concealed her actual pregnancy during another season. What's hilarious about this is that she played the perpetually pregnant friend, Ellen, of Will and Grace 😂
Baby is a Broadway play that people who saw it and might forgotten it's existence. The play officially opened on December 4, 1983 and it ended on July 1, 1984. The funny thing about that musical is that we went to go see it in an old theater that looked like it was under construction. We came in late when the play was already going and a male and female actors were singing the fourth song in the play. Which was Baby, Baby, Baby. This was in the 90s and my youngest sister was married and was going to have a girl at the time. Throughout the play, I was like, What the heck is this? The ending was the kicker. It was all off stage and no actor was in sight. The character was giving birth to a baby but it was off stage. The actors were like behind the curtain. And I'm like, What in the heck is going on? And then it ended. Wow, how anticlimactic.
This is interesting
Take note Ladies are also actresses. If you're going to get pregnant, make sure you're on a show with Sci-Fi twist or sci-fi then it'll be interesting to see how they hide it.
Unless you are on a show with a misogynistic show runner who will just destroy your beloved character because he's too egotistical to figure out a better way to hide the bump.
The Big Comfy Couch is a Canadian series and the actress is Canadian and went to Queens University in Kingston Ontario.
I’ve seen that episode of MONK so many times and didn’t know that Howard was really pregnant. I hate what they did to Daphne on Frasier.
What, no Charmed? Holey Marie Combs was pregnant while filming that show. (Loved that show.)
Geez, oh. Regardless of how or whether or not they hide their pregnancies, women never get a break when playing their characters in TV shows, movies and what not.
Wait are you upset. I don’t get what’s wrong
@@domaneishahammond1391 I never said I was upset. The reason I said what I said is because every time a woman gets pregnant, there’s always hysteria on some level.
@@bengray3245 that’s what I’m saying is that a bad or good thing from your perspective?
@@domaneishahammond1391 A good thing.
No series has been able to hide it as well as Grey's Anatomy. Chyler Leigh's pregnancy goes unnoticed for those who don't know the news...
you're kidding, right? Every dingle one of them was placed behind desks and shot from the bust up, and it was noticeable cause the face was a bit rounder too.
@@m0t0b33 A round face is impossible to hide, every pregnant woman will demonstrate this. Despite that, I think they did a good job filming the scenes. There are series that not even using these resources can achieve.
I loved the way they hid Jane's pregnancy in Frasier cuz it was so funny and it made sense for Daphne to over eat with what was going on with Niles and his problem with trying to get a divorce especially when he couldn't get seen with Daphne!
I remember that I figured out most of these pregnancies because of the way some of the actresses cheeks got chubby. Not shaming just saying that's how I noticed
The actress’s started looking healthier and happier when they filled out a bit.
@@nuranozdemir6454 They got that glow that only a mother can get
As Phoebe Buffay told Joey: Oh, that's sweat. You throw up all morning, you'll have that glow too.
To clarify, CC's poster was for an actual Broadway musical, Baby, by Maltby & Shire
I remember for Julia Duffy on Newhart, it was sweaters and Melissa Peterman on Reba it was plus sized clothes.
you know, if you had bigger women in these things it would be a heck of a lot easier to cover up. I lost weight when I was pregnant and only looked pregnant from the side a week before I had the baby. Cast bigger women.
the funniest was heather morris's on glee bc they couldn't even be bothered trying to hide it so it was super obvious but also they had her do one handed cartwheels n shit
They also did Jane Leeves' method in season 5 Mom when Jill's actress was pregnant.
Ooh 😲 Jaime Presley
One I love was Jay's actress' pregnancy in My Wife and Kids. Problematic now, but I liked it
Marcia cross was not pregnant during her fake pregnancy storyline. The fake storyline happened in season 4. She came back from her maternity leave with the storyline. Please do more research.
They’re all easy to spot
Holly Marie Combs on Charmed
You forgot Holly Marie Combs from Charmed
Crista Miller's pregnancy was included in the show Scrubs, however... but judging by her looks, it must've been when Jordan was pregnant with baby JD ( Jennifer Dylan), the vasectomy baby 😂 Oh and CSI: Miami, Emily Procter was pregnant, but it wasn't acknowledged, instead they put Caleigh in a coma after smoke inhalation when they had to explain away her absence. And in CSI: NY, Anna Belknap was also pregnant on the show and I'm not 100% sure, but I think they wrote it off as happening when Lindsay had to testify for the murder of her friends in Montana, not when the character was pregnant.
Does the MADTV sketch 'Sabrina the Teenage Mother' count? This sketch occurred during season 3 and then MADTV cast member Mary Scheer was heavily pregnant when season 3 began taping and she portrayed a Sabrina Spellman, who was going to be a mother-to-be.
What about Charisma carpenter on Angel
The greys anatomy with ellen pompeo was really clever plus zoey deschanel really looks like katy perry
Zoey Deschanel even appeared in Katy Perry's music video not the end of the world where aliens Abduct Zoey because they mistake her for katy
You also forgot the joke with Colbie Smulders lying on the couch, covered in a blanket, sick with food poisoning. She sarcastically says, "I'm pregnant" when asked why she is sick. I think the scene was shot shortly after her pregnancy announcement
The Big Bang Theory: Melissa Rauch
The Christmas Story: Tedde Moore
Married… With Children: Katey Sagal
Melrose Place hid Heather Locklear’s pregnancy, but the producers were sued when they fired another actress who was pregnant.
I knew Carrie from king of queens was pregnant.. it was obvious..
I’m honestly a little disappointed with the list, only because one of my favorite hidden bumps was Katey Sagal on “Married With Children, who hid her bump, not once but twice in the later seasons.
I know The Office got a mention but they deserve a special call-out for overlaps: first Angela was pregnant in real life but not on the show. Next, Pam was pregnant on the show but not in real life. Finally, Pam was pregnant on the show AND in real life, and Angela was pregnant on the show but not real life. My head is spinning!
Why include Voyager and not DS9?
You forgot Jennie Garth in 90210
Due to the restrictions the video sets, Nana Visitor from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine will not be on this list which ilsucks since the irony of art imitating life is lost. Visitor was dating cast member Siddiq El Fadil at the time and she became pregnant. Fadil played Dr Julian Bashir. In the show, the wife of Bashir's best friend, Miles O'Brian was pregnant but something caused her to not be able to carry the baby to term. Bashir's solution was to transplant the fetus to Major Kira Nerys played by Visitor. As I said, art imitating life.
Antonia Prebble on Westside series 5, pregnant but her Grandmother Character, Rita West wasn't and you wouldn't of known. It was revealed at the series premiere interview sge did the season pregnant and the effort to find costumes that worked around.
Series 6 I think her actual real life daughter played her on screen granddaughter when she held her 4th Grandchild. Ironically that Character later becomes her Outrageous Fortune Character Loreta West which she played 10 years earlier
Another hidden pregnancy was that of Katrina Bryan on CBeebies molly and Mack for the show 3rd and 4th seasons until she vanished in s4 ep10 and returned in s4 ep19 and she was hidden by giant clothes and bags
Should have included Katey Sagal's pregnancy while on Married with Children. They didn't hide it, they incorporated it into the show. Despite this pregnancy ending in a tragedy for Katey Sagal, the show was very supportive of her.
but the point of the video was the ways they hid it
Drink whenever the narrator says "oversized."
what about ds9 when Major Kira Nerys unexpectedly became the surrogate mother of Chief Miles and Keiko O'Brien's unborn baby?
Sorry, but Marcia Cross's pregnancy segment is not correct.
She was indeed pregnant while shooting Season 3, and they did shoot some scenes in her home when she was put in bed rest. BUT her character was written out mid-season 3 while she was on maternity leave.
The fake pregnancy storyline came in season 4, when her character's daughter, Danielle, was pregnant, and Bree wanted to pass her baby as her own once her daughter gave birth. Marcia Cross was no longer pregnant by that point, and she took the fake baby bump several time that showed her svelte figure. I guess the fake pregnancy storyline was also a way to play a joke on Marcia's real life pregnancy on season 3.
I could tell Patricia Heaton's pregnancy and post-pregnancy because she was clearly nursing after she had her babies. She wa noticeably larger, if you get my drift.
Lauren Lane's pregnancy should have been #1 since they so obviously made fun of the whole subject and how other shows (poorly) handled it.
I have watched sex and the city 4 times all the way through plus random episodes and never knew the SJP was pregnant
I guess it’s not a prime time show but Days of our lives hid Allison Sweeney’s pregnancy for a little while then had Sami dress up like a man and cast a male actor to play the part.
Shelly Long in Cheers
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Um some of these don’t count! Like 27 & 22!
I don't know about funny, but I'm pretty sure Marishka Hagertay's way was the most Bad Ass way of hiding her's. doing a stint in a computer crimes unit, and then going under cover for the FBI for maternity leave.
While I appreciate what they were trying to do, I don't think Frasier did the best job of explaining Jane Leeves pregnancy. A lot of the beginning was mostly fat jokes and while they were trying to go for her eating to deal with her feelings about leaving her fiance at the altar, it didn't seem to work well.
I love Cc Babcock and we Daw That she was Pregnant, but in the Show She hated Children and Niles loughfing at her that She got fat
It's funny about getting pregnant on TV. But sad that it's a no no because it's like why did she want a child to begin with. It's not just don't get pregnant because it can't be helped sometimes but knowing that you should stop working when you find out that you are.
Not every actress wants her real life pregnancy written into the show, especially if there's a chance she might miscarry. It would be horrendous then having to complete the rest of the character's pregnancy and act giving birth. Or else she simply wants to keep her private and professional lives separate, but shouldn't have to stop working before she's ready to. Other times, it doesn't work for the character.
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Brittany being a genius was not funny at all.
You left out Susan St. James from Kate and Allie! She ended up in a hospital with a flirtatious doctor subplot, there was a flashback episode with both Kate and Allie pregnant, and then they sent her off to San Francisco. She appeared in short telephone calls that could literally have been phoned in from anywhere.