Top 30 Funniest Ways TV Shows Hid Pregnancies
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Date: 2024-05-20
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METerrell
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.
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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.
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billyt9830
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.
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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.
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jessesanchez9187
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.
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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.
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icedragonland8471
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.
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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.
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spectresound
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.
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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.
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itsintheballot3644
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
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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
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ctwomey
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. :(
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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. :(
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ukekrazy1242
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!
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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!
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trinaq
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.
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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.
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msmojo
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
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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
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rookeealding2803
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.
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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.
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madmartagan100
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.
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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.
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user-lv5zz7wv6l
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
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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
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vonniebeth
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.
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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.
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cynthiaalver
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!
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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!
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trinaq
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.
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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.
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msmojo
There was a surgeon on ER that they had to hide her pregnancy. Dr Abby keaton(Glenne headly, the writers did their best to hide it and they found some pretty big stretchers to keep it hidden.
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There was a surgeon on ER that they had to hide her pregnancy. Dr Abby keaton(Glenne headly, the writers did their best to hide it and they found some pretty big stretchers to keep it hidden.
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trinaq
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.
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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.
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msmojo
I’m honestly a little disappointed with the list, only because one of my favorite hidden bumps was Katey Sagan, who hidden her bump, nog once but twice in the later seasons.
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I’m honestly a little disappointed with the list, only because one of my favorite hidden bumps was Katey Sagan, who hidden her bump, nog once but twice in the later seasons.
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bengray3245
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.
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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.
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