Television series can transport audiences to other realities, either outside or within this world.
Of course, part of that great success is due to the cast. In some productions, the actresses become so good that they can even hide a pregnancy from real life, without the viewers noticing.
This is how these 8 famous women did it, did you notice their tummy?
# 1 Zooey Deschanel and New Girl
In 2015, the protagonist of this show got pregnant while filming the fifth season.
The screenwriters tried to hide their baby bump by putting your character in a wheelchair. However, her gestation was well advanced and she had to leave the recording set for a few weeks.
The absence of her character was justified in the story by mentioning that she had been cited as a civil judge. Good idea, don’t you think?
# 2 Lauren Lane and The babysitter
The actress who gave life to CC Babcock remained on tape during the filming of the fifth season of The Nanny.
Unlike other productions, the scriptwriters they didn’t worry a lot to hide their tummy, and instead they made some jokes about it on the show.
Her character complained about not being able to lose weight and in one chapter she even exaggerated the way in which the pregnancy of actresses is hidden on television.
# 3 Lisa Kudrow en Friends
Fans of this show surely remember the part where Phoebe volunteers to carry her brother’s babies and ends up with a multiple pregnancy.
This story it was created by the scriptwriters because the actress behind the character was pregnant in real life.
#4 Courtney Cox en Friends
Another pregnancy occurred during the recordings of the series, but this time it was in the last season.
Because it had already been said that his character could not conceive, the producers they appealed to loose garments to hide the actress’s belly.
# 5 Julie Bowen and Modern Family
In the first chapter of the series, the character of Claire is presented as a mom with very baggy outfits and carrying baskets of dirty or clean clothes all the time.
This was on purpose, so that it would not be noticed that the actress was about to give birth to her twins.
#6 Sarah Jessica Parker en Sex and the City
The fifth season of this show had fewer episodes than usual. The writers had to shorten it, because the show’s protagonist was pregnant.
In her case, it was not feasible to change the plot and make her character go through a pregnancy, so the only solution was to put big clothes on her and finish the recordings earlier.
#7 Alyson Hannigan en How I Met Your Mother
The actress who played Lily got pregnant not just once, but twice while filming the show.
On the first occasion, the producers covered her tummy with all possible objects so that her tummy would not show. Still, he got the chance to show her in one episode, as a joke: when she enters a hot dog eating competition and her belly grows.
On the second occasion, the writers decided to incorporate her pregnancy into her character: Lily was also visited by the stork.
# 8 Ellen Pompeo in Grey’s Anatomy
The protagonist of the series was on tape during its sixth season.
The producers covered it up with shots mainly of his face, larger surgical pajamas and, in the end, wrote the plot in which he donates a part of his liver to his father.
Did you ever notice the pregnancy of these actresses during the series?
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