History Main / MySecretPregnancy

* [[TheSimpsons Homer]] was in the dark during most of the time Marge was pregnant with Maggie, in part because she knew Homer planned to just stay with two kids and keep his dream job at the bowling alley and didn't want to upset him, but her sisters, wanting to see Homer suffer, spread the news around town. However, Homer was far too thick to see the signs, understand the congratulatory euphemisms, or notice the ''outright statements'' of his soon-to-be fatherhood, and in fact only fully understood after someone congratulated him on his new job.

* [[TheSimpsons Marge Simpson]] managed to hide Maggie from Homer during most of the term because Homer planned to just stay with two kids and keep his dream job at the bowling alley.
** Not really, it's just that Homer was far too thick to see the signs, understand the congratulatory euphemisms, or notice the ''outright statements'' of his soon-to-be fatherhood.

** It also could be that she was fearful about what would happen should the Syndicate or CGB Spender found out. Whether they would take her for testing like they did Mulder, or leverage her child's life for Mulder's could have been very real possiblities. And considering the latter was posed to Skinner later in the season, it was very possible.

* In the movie {{Waitress}}, she tries her hardest to keep her pregnancy a secret from her nasty deadbeat abusive husband, and was planning to run away with her gynecologist. For several months he actually thought she was just fat. She also decides to keep this from her demanding boss for a time so it might not interfer with work. Humorously, the boss actually knows when she tells him ("You thought I thought you went out and got fat? I don't care if you work while giving birth."

* In the ''DoctorWho'' episodes "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances", the mother keeps her pregnancy secret from ''everyone''. Of course, we only find this out years after the fact.

** A New Series 4 episode has a woman return from abroad and spend the next few months in her room, claiming severe illness. Of course, she's really pregnant.

* In WarriorCats, [[spoiler: Leafpool hides her pregnancy from everyone but Squirrelflight, who then raises the kits as her own. Justified in the sense that Leafpool was a medicine cat and could not have kits. Also, the father was from Windclan.]]
** [[spoiler: Yellowfang]] also hides her pregnancy from the rest of her clan, but not from the father, [[spoiler: Raggedstar.]]Then again, she was also a medicine cat.

** [[spoiler: Amy Pond]] does a ''very'' good job of this. Of course, she's [[spoiler: completely unaware]] because [[spoiler: the Amy we've seen all season is actually a ganger and her real body has been trapped in a white tube super pregnant on a far away space base.]]

** [[spoiler: Amy Pond]] does a ''very'' good job of this. Of course, she's [[spoiler: completely unaware]] because [[spoiler: the Amy we've seen all season is actually a ganger and her real body has been trapped in a white tube super pregnany on a far away space base.]]

** [[spoiler: Amy Pond]] does a ''very'' good job of this. Of course, she's [[spoiler: completely unaware]] because [[spoiler: the Amy we've seen all season is actually a ganger and her real body has been trapped on in a white tube super pregnany on a far away space base.]]

** [[spoiler: Yellowfang]] also hides her pregnancy from the rest of her clan, but not from the father, [[spoiler: Raggedstar.]]
[[AC: WesternAnimation]] Then again, she was also a medicine cat.

** It also could be that she was fearful about what would happen should the Syndicate or CGB Spender found out. Whether they would take her for testing like they did Mulder, or leverage her child's life for Mulder's could have been very real possiblities. And considering the latter was posed to Skinner later in the season, it was very possible.

** Meggie goes so far as to sleep with her estranged husband one last time to create an alibi. Justified, as the actual biological father is [[spoiler: a Catholic priest.]]

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* In AnneMcCaffrey's ''Acorna'' series, Acorna's pregnancy wasn't a secret (In fact, her mother detects it before she does). The fact that she was pregnant with twins was. One of the embryos was stolen from her by [[TedBaxter Graymalkin]], one of the race of aliens responsible for creating her species (who, in fact, stole Ariin to [[StableTimeLoop use her genetic code to create the original Linyaari]]).

* In ''OnePiece'', Portgas D. Ace's mother Rouge hid her pregnancy for ''20 months'' to keep the World Government from finding her son, whose father was none other than [[spoiler:Gold Roger]]. Seeing as humans in ''One Piece'' are MadeOfIron she pulled this off, though she died soon after he was born from the strain.

* In {{Dreamgirls}}, Effie never tells anyone about her pregnancy once she's kicked out of the show. She tried to give Curtis a hint but he never picked up on it. [[spoiler: He finally catches on after seeing Effie's pre-teen daughter at the end of the film.]]

* In the movie {{Waitress}}, she tries her hardest to keep her pregnancy a secret from her nasty deadbeat abusive husband, and was planning to run away with her gynecologist. For several months he actually thought she was just fat.

* Scully hides her pregnancy from everyone except A.D. Skinner for several months on {{The X-Files}}. The reason for hiding it is never really given, as it wasn't until close to the birth and after William is born that we find out [[spoiler: he's an alien/human hybrid, of sorts, and every bad guy wants him thanks to a prophecy]]. However, it could be that she wanted to keep on the hunt for Mulder without issue, didn't think anyone else needed to know (including her new partner), or the fact that the men in her life kind of become twitchy, overprotective bodyguards when they find out she's pregnant.