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* Kylee Russell was pregnant while filming ''[[Film/Zombies2018 Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3]]''. She gave birth on July 10, 2021 right before they were finished filming in late July of 2021. Due to this, her character Eliza is interning at Z-Corp and always sitting behind a desk, attending her senior year of high school through videoconferencing.

* Creator/LindaDarnell was pregnant while playing The Immaculate Conception in ''Film/TheSongOfBernadette''. This resulted in the apparition in the movie being dressed far differently than described by the real Bernadette.

* "Series/{{Ghosts}}": Beginning in Season 3 Episode 1 Sam is now wearing looser, baggy tops and longer skirts, as Creator/RoseMcIver is pregnant.

* She starts wearing high heels to make herself look more height–weight proportionate

* Then there’s the attempt of wearing high heels etc. to make her look more height–weight proportionate; this succeeds only in making her appear as "the ElephantInTheRoom" by towering over all else around her with her increased size. When she walks, she typically also becomes a lumbering hulk, lurching and teetering around on the heels like Frankenstein's Monster due to her increased height and decreased balance.

* Ann Morgan Guilbert was pregnant on the first season of ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'', and while it would have been plausible for Millie and Jerry to be expecting, nothing like that had been written. Instead, Guilbert was dressed in oversized clothing until it was time to go out on maternity leave.

** ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore'' had to deal with three pregnant cast members. Claudia Kim, who plays Nagini, was 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 written out of the movie since she was very far along when production started after an extensive delay caused by the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. [[note]] Funnily enough Kim herself was a replacement for the original actor cast for the second film, Acha Septriasa, who had to drop out because she was pregnant.[[/note]] Creator/AlisonSudol, who plays Queenie Goldstein, and Victoria Yeates, who plays Bunty, were both pregnant for the entirety of production. The tricks used to hide their bellies included the standards ones like shooting them from the chest up and behind, wearing dark flowy clothes and large coats, and having them sit down.

* In the Creator/FrancoisTruffaut movie about a movie, ''Film/DayForNight'', they are filming a scene where the woman who is the secretary of one of the main characters, gets out of a pool to take a letter for him. Then they discover she's just barely pregnant, and by the time she comes back in six weeks for the main part of her scenes, she will be obviously several months pregnant. They have to figure out a way to cover the issue, but they can't 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 have her seen as pregnant as it will complicate the story, the audience will think her boss knocked her up.

* ''Film/TheWomanOfMyDreams'': Marika Rökk was pregnant with her and director Georg Jacoby's daughter Gabriele when the film was made. Her pregnancy had to be hidden in some shots, then filming was 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 halted when her belly grew too big.

** Chelsea Peretti's pregnancy during production for the second half of Season 4. The show spent a couple of weeks keeping Gina behind her desk and dressing her in baggy clothing. Also, because Gina is more than a little odd, Peretti would stand in strange poses to distract from her belly. This didn't last very long, however, as they decided to 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 work the pregnancy into the plot and have Gina fall in love with [[spoiler: a Boyle Cousin]]!

* Near the middle of Season 5 of ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', Creator/ChristaMiller suddenly started sitting/lying down a lot while covered up, or wearing baggy and/or black clothing that she never wore previously. Her pregnancy couldn't be written into the script because her character was just starting her romance with Drew. However, she did show up pregnant as a "gag" in Episode 19, "What's Wrong with this Episode III" since the character wasn't ''supposed'' to be pregnant. (Ryan Stiles also showed up pregnant as "Lewis--" except that Christa Miller's wasn't 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 a basketball under her shirt, as her widened overall girth showed even from behind).

** When Creator/GatesMcFadden (Dr. Crusher) got pregnant in real life during ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', her character had to go through this, with lots of close-ups or sitting down shots. It also helps that the character's uniform had always included a voluminous lab coat, so it was only noticeable if you were really looking. [=McFadden=] learned she was pregnant shortly after filming one of Crusher's best episodes, "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E5RememberMe Remember Me]]" and doing [[PregnantBadass her own (strenuous) stunts]]. To complicate matters further, one of the most intensively Crusher-centered episodes of the series, "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E23TheHost The Host]]", was made while her pregnancy was quite advanced. While it may seem relatively 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸, since this episode involves a romance with a lot of on-screen physical contact, it's actually quite challenging to do while not showing her pregnancy. The writer, interviewed later, said it made the episode even ''better,'' saying that there is a "glow" to women in love and certainly a "glow" on pregnant women.

** ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore'' had to deal with three pregnant cast members. Claudia Kim, who plays Nagini, was simply written out of the movie since she was very far along when production started after an extensive delay caused by the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. [[note]] Funnily enough Kim herself was a replacement for the original actor cast for the second film, Acha Septriasa, who had to drop out because she was pregnant.[[/note]] Creator/AlisonSudol, who plays Queenie Goldstein, and Victoria Yeates, who plays Bunty, were both pregnant for the entirety of production. The tricks used to hide their bellies included the standards ones like shooting them from the chest up and behind, wearing dark flowy clothes and large coats, and having them sit down.

* In the Creator/FrancoisTruffaut movie about a movie, ''Film/DayForNight'', they are filming a scene where the woman who is the secretary of one of the main characters, gets out of a pool to take a letter for him. Then they discover she's just barely pregnant, and by the time she comes back in six weeks for the main part of her scenes, she will be obviously several months pregnant. They have to figure out a way to cover the issue, but they can't simply have her seen as pregnant as it will complicate the story, the audience will think her boss knocked her up.

* ''Film/TheWomanOfMyDreams'': Marika Rökk was pregnant with her and director Georg Jacoby's daughter Gabriele when the film was made. Her pregnancy had to be hidden in some shots, then filming was simply halted when her belly grew too big.

** Chelsea Peretti's pregnancy during production for the second half of Season 4. The show spent a couple of weeks keeping Gina behind her desk and dressing her in baggy clothing. Also, because Gina is more than a little odd, Peretti would stand in strange poses to distract from her belly. This didn't last very long, however, as they decided to simply work the pregnancy into the plot and have Gina fall in love with [[spoiler: a Boyle Cousin]]!

* An actress on ''Series/CoronationStreet'' playing a post-op transgender woman become pregnant; it started with the character sitting down a lot, and later she went on holiday to keep things from getting too obvious.

* Near the middle of Season 5 of ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', Creator/ChristaMiller suddenly started sitting/lying down a lot while covered up, or wearing baggy and/or black clothing that she never wore previously. Her pregnancy couldn't be written into the script because her character was just starting her romance with Drew. However, she did show up pregnant as a "gag" in Episode 19, "What's Wrong with this Episode III" since the character wasn't ''supposed'' to be pregnant. (Ryan Stiles also showed up pregnant as "Lewis--" except that Christa Miller's wasn't simply a basketball under her shirt, as her widened overall girth showed even from behind).

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' averted this when Creator/KaitlinOlson became pregnant. It was written into the series with an entire episode devoted to the Gang trying to find out the identity of the father, they never find out but Dee knows and she's not telling. [[spoiler: Turns out she was carrying the baby for a post-op transgender woman]].

** When Creator/GatesMcFadden (Dr. Crusher) got pregnant in real life during ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', her character had to go through this, with lots of close-ups or sitting down shots. It also helps that the character's uniform had always included a voluminous lab coat, so it was only noticeable if you were really looking. [=McFadden=] learned she was pregnant shortly after filming one of Crusher's best episodes, "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E5RememberMe Remember Me]]" and doing [[PregnantBadass her own (strenuous) stunts]]. To complicate matters further, one of the most intensively Crusher-centered episodes of the series, "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E23TheHost The Host]]", was made while her pregnancy was quite advanced. While it may seem relatively simple, since this episode involves a romance with a lot of on-screen physical contact, it's actually quite challenging to do while not showing her pregnancy. The writer, interviewed later, said it made the episode even ''better,'' saying that there is a "glow" to women in love and certainly a "glow" on pregnant women.

* ''Film/StayTuned'': [[https://archive.org/stream/starlog_magazine-181/181_djvu.txt According to an issue of Starlog Magazine]], Pam Dawber was around four-and-half months pregnant at the time of filming, though she wasn't aware of it when she signed onto the film. This understandably took director, Peter Hyams, by surprise when he found out, considering all the big falls and stunts she did.

* When Creator/PhyliciaRashad of ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' got pregnant, she had to stand/sit with various household objects in front of her belly. One scene had her sitting down behind a giant teddy bear, strange as that may sound. Some episodes excluded Clair entirely, but she was mentioned to be working late or out of town. They also cut a hole out in Cliff/Clair's bed so that when they were in it, Rashad's stomach wasn't elevated.
** This led to a hilarious behind the scenes extra in which Creator/BillCosby himself said that if Phylicia Rashad's belly got any bigger, they would have to park the Huxtable's car in the living room just so they could hide her stomach behind it.

* Creator/HalleBerry's role as Characters/MarvelComicsStorm in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' had to be massively trimmed following an unexpected pregnancy. Though they were able to finish shooting while Berry could still fit her costume (though only by a week or so), all of Storm's flight and hand-to-hand combat scenes had to be cut from the script. This is why her sole contribution to the final battle mostly consists of floating around and shooting lightning bolts [[spoiler: before getting impaled by a Sentinel]].

* Creator/HalleBerry's role as ComicBook/{{Storm}} in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' had to be massively trimmed following an unexpected pregnancy. Though they were able to finish shooting while Berry could still fit her costume (though only by a week or so), all of Storm's flight and hand-to-hand combat scenes had to be cut from the script. This is why her sole contribution to the final battle mostly consists of floating around and shooting lightning bolts [[spoiler: before getting impaled by a Sentinel]].

** However; zig-zagged because a couple of episodes had used the classic tricks of shooting her at an angle, putting something in front of her, or only having her visible from the chest up in certain shots. You can especially see this in the swimming pool episode.

** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': The character Keiko O'Brien was already pregnant when Kira's actress, Creator/NanaVisitor, became pregnant. As Creator/RosalindChao was not pregnant, a [[WrittenInInfirmity technobabble solution]] was found, requiring Nana Visitor to hide her pregnancy until the relevant episode occurred: a runabout carrying Keiko, Kira and Bashir was involved in a major incident that left Keiko so badly injured the only way to save the unborn baby was to adapt the transporters on the fly to move the baby to the only other available womb. Due to peculiarities of Bajoran physiology, the baby couldn't be transferred back once Keiko had recovered, resulting in Kira moving into the O'Brien's quarters for the remainder of the pregnancy so that the parents could still feel involved with their child's pregnancy. When the [[WrittenInInfirmity pregnancy symptoms]] get too much for Kira, she has an argument with Bashir about how this is his fault. While she's referring to his decision to transfer the baby, it's a show in-joke as Bashir's actor, Creator/AlexanderSiddig, was the father of Nana Visitor's baby.
** Likewise, Creator/RoxannDawson (Lt. Torres) of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', became pregnant during Season 4. The writers considered writing her pregnancy into the plot, but decided against it, resulting in a long period in which her character was never shown from the chest down ''and'' wearing a [[WrenchWench smock holding engineering tools]] (except for the two-part episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E17TheKillingGame The Killing Game]]" set in the holodeck where the character was forced by aliens who had taken over the ship into portraying a pregnant woman). Amusingly enough, her character later became pregnant. Once the mind control devices were deactivated, but before the holodeck effects were overridden, there's an amusing bit where both Tom Paris and Torres comment on the intense ''realism'' of the 'simulated' pregnancy (including that it ''kicks'').

* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** Sam Carter began Season 9 on R&D secondment to Area 51. She communicated with the SGC via video conferencing which hid Creator/AmandaTapping's pregnancy.
** Vala disappeared later in Season 9, trapped in the Ori's home galaxy to hide Creator/ClaudiaBlack's pregnancy until Vala returned, carrying a DarkMessiah. Her second pregnancy coincided with production of ''Film/StargateContinuum'' and was hidden with oversized camo jackets, huge guns, and artful camera angles (though it didn't quite work, as Black was already late into her second trimester when filming began, and it's ''very'' obvious in a lot of shots.)
** When Creator/LexaDoig became pregnant, minor character Dr. Lam disappeared from the show without reference. She was the second ''Stargate'' actress Michael Shanks got pregnant, although the first (Vaitiare Bandera, who played Sha're) was a WrittenInInfirmity.

* When Creator/GatesMcFadden (Dr. Crusher) got pregnant in real life during ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', her character had to go through this, with lots of close-ups or sitting down shots. It also helps that the character's uniform had always included a voluminous lab coat, so it was only noticeable if you were really looking.
** [=McFadden=] learned she was pregnant shortly after filming one of Crusher's best episodes, "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E5RememberMe Remember Me]]" and doing [[PregnantBadass her own (strenuous) stunts]].
** To complicate matters further, one of the most intensively Crusher-centered episodes of the series, "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E23TheHost The Host]]", was made while her pregnancy was quite advanced. While it may seem relatively simple, since this episode involves a romance with a lot of on-screen physical contact, it's actually quite challenging to do while not showing her pregnancy. The writer, interviewed later, said it made the episode even ''better,'' saying that there is a "glow" to women in love and certainly a "glow" on pregnant women.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': The character Keiko O'Brien was already pregnant when Kira's actress, Creator/NanaVisitor, became pregnant. As Creator/RosalindChao was not pregnant, a [[WrittenInInfirmity technobabble solution]] was found, requiring Nana Visitor to hide her pregnancy until the relevant episode occurred: a runabout carrying Keiko, Kira and Bashir was involved in a major incident that left Keiko so badly injured the only way to save the unborn baby was to adapt the transporters on the fly to move the baby to the only other available womb. Due to peculiarities of Bajoran physiology, the baby couldn't be transferred back once Keiko had recovered, resulting in Kira moving into the O'Brien's quarters for the remainder of the pregnancy so that the parents could still feel involved with their child's pregnancy. When the [[WrittenInInfirmity pregnancy symptoms]] get too much for Kira, she has an argument with Bashir about how this is his fault. While she's referring to his decision to transfer the baby, it's a show in-joke as Bashir's actor, Creator/AlexanderSiddig, was the father of Nana Visitor's baby.
* Likewise, Creator/RoxannDawson (Lt. Torres) of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', became pregnant during Season 4. The writers considered writing her pregnancy into the plot, but decided against it, resulting in a long period in which her character was never shown from the chest down ''and'' wearing a [[WrenchWench smock holding engineering tools]] (except for the two-part episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E17TheKillingGame The Killing Game]]" set in the holodeck where the character was forced by aliens who had taken over the ship into portraying a pregnant woman). Amusingly enough, her character later became pregnant.
** Once the mind control devices were deactivated, but before the holodeck effects were overridden, there's an amusing bit where both Tom Paris and Torres comment on the intense ''realism'' of the 'simulated' pregnancy (including that it ''kicks'').
** The large coat actually tipped off the savvy viewer that she was pregnant as the coat was modeled after the style of top worn by pregnant women in the US Army. Thus it was pretty obvious when and for how long she was pregnant.