Actresses are no strangers to stepping into someone else’s shoes, but when an actress is pregnant and the entertainment writers decide not to write it into the script, some serious work has to be done to conceal the baby bump. Ahead are nine actresses who’ve had to hide their baby bumps while on set.
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Courteney Cox
During the last few episodes of Friends, Cox was four months pregnant. Since the show had already established that Monica and Chandler couldn’t have children, they couldn’t write it into the script. Fun fact: During season four, Lisa Kudrow was pregnant IRL — so that’s how Phoebe Buffay became the surrogate for her brother’s triplets!
Kerry Washington
Shonda Rhimes and co. decided not to write in Washington’s real-life pregnancy into Scandal‘s third season, so they had to get creative with oversized jackets and purses, props and not-so-subtle camera blocking. (Like the fact that Olivia was standing behind lamps in every other scene?)
Debra Messing
Messing actually missed five episodes of season six of Will & Grace in the later stages of her pregnancy, but before that the costume department used the ol’ billowy clothes trick to cover that baby bump.
Amy Poehler
During season two of Parks and Recreation when Poehler became pregnant, the show completely changed its production schedule; after season two, they immediately filmed six episodes of season three while hiding her baby bump so she could have more time with her and then-husband Will Arnett’s son Abel once he was born.
January Jones
The Mad Men crew disguised January Jones’ pregnancy during season six by adding a fat suit and prosthetics, transforming Betty Francis (once Draper) into a bored, depressed housewife.
“I started this season of ‘Mad Men’ eight months pregnant, and I finished it with a 5-month-old. It was bizarre,” the slender actress told The Hollywood Reporter.
“And I was in seven hours of prosthetics every morning, trying to rip off a fake chest piece so I could breastfeed. … I loved (that fat suit). I didn’t want to try to hide it, I thought it would become comical and weird.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Boxes and other props were used to cover up Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ pregnancy during season three of Seinfeld. “My first pregnancy we sort of tried to cover it up and I would carry boxes and walk around with, you know, things on hangers in front of me and things like that,” she told Vulture.
Kelly Rutherford
While Rutherford was pregnant with her second child, pregnancy was not in the cards for Gossip Girls‘ Lily Bass, so the crew used oversized coats and shopping bags to cover her baby bump.
Ellen Pompeo
Meredith Grey wasn’t pregnant in season six of Grey’s Anatomy while Pompeo was, so the costume department opted for baggy scrubs, and eventually Meredith ended up donating part of her liver in order to give Pompeo some much-needed time off.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Season five of Sex and the City was actually cut short due to Sarah Jessica Parker’s real-life pregnancy. Up until then, however, the wardrobe department disguised her growing baby bump with fabulous costumes.
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