14 Actresses Who Acted While Pregnant (And Maybe You Didn’t Realize It)

The process of recording a film is already complicated in itself, whether for actors or actresses. But when professional dramaturgy has to act while pregnant, we really have to give these true warriors a standing ovation. In some cases, screenwriters, make-up artists, hairdressers and even directors are forced to change the plot a little so that the expectant mother does not give up the role. In others, pregnancy fits the script pretty well.

O awesome.club prepared a list of actresses who were pregnant during the filming process. Can you imagine they would be moms?

The young Gillian Anderson had just passed the audition for one of the main roles of her career and, before filming began, I found out I was pregnant🇧🇷 Studio bosses tried to replace the actress, but Chris Carter (executive producer of the series) did not want to give the role of Dana Scully to anyone else.

The pregnant belly was disguised by wide clothes and good angles and in the last months of pregnancy, there was a change in the plot. By the way, Gillian named her daughter Piper Maru and executive producer and Piper’s godfather, Carter, “named” one of the episodes after the child.

As we already wrote here, Sarah Jessica Parker hid her pregnant belly during the recording of the series. But she wasn’t the only star who got pregnant while in the studio. Cynthia Nixon, Miranda Hobbes, was also pregnant during filming, but she didn’t have to hide her big bump because the pregnancy fit right in with the script.

In season four of “Friends,” Phoebe, played by Liza Kudrow, agreed to become a surrogate for her stepbrother. That’s because the actress actually got pregnant. In the storyline, Phoebe was carrying triplets, while Liza would only have one baby; to have a huge belly, she used padding.

It is funny and curious that Julia played a woman who only pretended to be pregnant, while in fact she was the star was really going through this situation🇧🇷 Although the film had been a box office failure, Roberts was happily pregnant and gave birth to twins.

After passing an audition to join the cast and receiving approval for the role, Maria began preparing for the job a year before filming began. However, the start of recording was delayed for a while, because of an unexpected event in the actress’s life: as you might have guessed, she got pregnant. When the film’s screenwriter and producer, Igor Ugolnikov, was informed about the situation, he was less than pleased. As a result, Maria played a completely different role than had been predicted before. But she doesn’t regret it and, by the way, won some awards for her performance as Natalia Tatishcheva.

Shortly before completing 45 years, the actress discovered that she was pregnant with twins and the plot of the series had an unexpected twist: Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia’s character) pretended to be pregnant so as not to embarrass the family. At the end of the pregnancy, the famous was already on the limit and the filming was transferred to her apartment, but, fortunately, all ended well—and Eden and Savannah were born healthy.

Alyson Hannigan became pregnant twice while filming the series. In the first, the production hid everything with different angles and costumes to disguise it, but in the second time, the writers decided to present the happiness about motherhood to the character of Alyson in the series.

Pregnancy during the filming of the film (a blockbuster) was a real surprise for Halle Berry, because her character, Storm, could not be in such a position in the plot of the film.

Director Brett Retner had no choice but to hide the pregnancy from the general public and reduce the character’s participation. In the battle scenes, the actress was successfully replaced by her stunt double.

Cate Blanchett is truly a unique actress when it comes to pregnancy while filming. She discovered her first pregnancy after being invited to play an important role in the movie “Charlotte Gray — Passion Without Borders”. The second was discovered during the filming of “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou”. Already in her third pregnancy, Cate gave birth to her son at the studios of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, where she would play the long-awaited role of the film’s villain. Nothing stopped the star from acting in these films thanks to the various tricks she underwent to disguise her pregnancy.

In the fourth film about the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow, Penélope Cruz had to act pregnant. Although the increase in the actress’s belly was not yet noticeable (since the pregnancy was at the beginning), the producers used different angles to disguise the signs of pregnancy in the actress. Despite the fact that the characters spent a lot of time in the water, Penelope calmly went through all the dangers and setbacks during the first three months of pregnancy experienced on the film set.

Although Naomi found out about her pregnancy immediately after filming began, as many women do, she decided not to spread the news about her pregnancy until she knew the baby was healthy. The star only told the news to her colleagues when her costume designer realized that she was no longer fitting into her character’s clothes.

Actress did not plan to act in this thriller, but after the departure of Nicole Kidman, agreed to play the role of Meg Altman. However, during filming, Jodie was surprised that she was pregnant with her second child. That didn’t stop her from playing the role brilliantly and she assured that the pregnancy only made her even stronger. All of her complex character scenes (and those where she appears in tight T-shirts) were filmed early in her pregnancy.

The fact that the couple (the actress is married to James Righton) had a daughter only became known to the public when Keira published a photo of a pram on her social networks. Being pregnant, the actress shot the film “Everest”, in which she played the pregnant wife of a climber. Interestingly, the film’s crew did not know that the pregnancy was real.

Gal cautiously hid her pregnancy in the film’s production and did all the stunts. A few months later, the team asked her to go back to the studio and reshoot some scenes. That’s when her pregnancy became public for the team.

The star had to use a special model of the costume, with a green part on the abdomen, so that the production could hide the belly with visual effects.

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