15+ Creative solutions in soap operas and series for the public not to realize that the actresses were pregnant

When a person becomes pregnant, they can almost always work normally until delivery. However, those who work with acting need solutions so that their characters don’t suddenly appear pregnant. Some productions include pregnancy in their characters, while others bet on more creative solutions.

we, from awesome.club, we reveal who are the actresses who discovered themselves pregnant in the middle of the recordings and what are the most creative or unusual exits that the direction chose to deal with it.

Let’s start this list with an old-timer artist, but with great curiosity. Dina Sfat, an award-winning Brazilian actress who began her career in the 1960s, had three daughters with her husband. All three pregnancies happened while she was acting in some production. The first child, also actress Bel Kutner, was born while her mother was filming Red Summer, as the character Adriana, who she also got pregnant. Bel was born two days after the mother character gave birth.

Those who watched Brooklyn Nine-Nine may not have noticed that Melissa Fumero, who plays Amy in the series, was pregnant during Season 3. After all, she was always with some object hiding her belly, or sitting, or wearing baggy clothes. Towards the end of the season, when the belly was already too big to disguise, the writers invented a mission for the policewoman, infiltrated in a prison and pretending to be pregnant. So she passed information on false appointments in the infirmary.

Zooey Deschanel’s character on New Girl, Jess, had relationship issues and it wouldn’t make sense for her to appear pregnant. But during Season 4, the actress became pregnant and didn’t want to reveal it to her fellow cast members. So the writers came up with a plot in which Jess’s colleague Schmidt invents an all-over sweatshirt suit to wear on casual office days. The actress took the opportunity to hide her belly and still found it really comfortable.

But that was just one of the episodes, and the producers needed more creative solutions. The solution was to invent an accident with Jess, so that she had to ride around on a scooter — sitting down, her belly is not so evident. Ultimately, Jess was called to serve on a jury, being absent from the series for several episodes.

Sabrina Petraglia couldn’t save herself from the cast of Save Yourself! During a break in the recording of the soap opera, the actress became pregnant, so the author decided to rewrite the course of her character, Micaela. The solution was to make Micaela pass a postgraduate course in the United States, causing her to leave Brazil and her boyfriend Bruno. In addition, the last scenes of the character needed to be digitally assembled, as she recorded from her own home.

This exit was really funny and deserves congratulations to the writers of Glee. When Heather Morris announced that she was pregnant, they gave her character Brittany a very unusual fate. In the series, she had to drop out of high school because she got a place in college before she even finished high school, because of some scribbles with colored pencils on the back of her application letter. Turns out Brittany was never exactly smart. She was out of the series for a while, but returned later.

While some writers deserve congratulations for their creativity, others don’t seem to try so hard. That’s what happened to Debra Messing when she got pregnant in season 6 of Will & Grace. The character used to wear more chic and tight-fitting clothes, but out of nowhere, she started to appear in a baggy outfit and constantly hiding her belly, without even disguising it. Additionally, she was dropped from the final four episodes of the season.

If you watched Secret Truths, you don’t remember the presence of Deborah Secco in the cast. That’s because she didn’t really appear on screen, despite initially being cast as the character Carolina. The actress discovered that she was pregnant and, even though she had already filmed some scenes, she was replaced by Drica Moraes. The recorded scenes were redone, with camera tricks and extras, and no one noticed the gambiarra.

Having been a series running for over 15 years, it’s only natural that Grey’s Anatomy actresses go through pregnancies at some point. For starters, let’s talk about the main actress, Ellen Pompeo, who plays the doctor Meredith Grey. When she became pregnant and it was no longer possible to hide her belly, the screenwriters quickly invented that she had to donate part of her liver to her father. As part of her post-surgical recovery, she stayed in bed for several episodes. Under several blankets, of course 😉.

If you thought a liver donation was creative, just wait until you hear this story. Jessica Capshaw also got pregnant during the recording of Grey’s Anatomy and the writers were a little more radical in the solution. At the beginning of the pregnancy, she was filmed just above the belly, and if it was necessary to show the whole body, a stunt double was used. Toward the end of the pregnancy and on maternity leave, Dr. Arizona, her character, had to travel far away: Africa!

The case of Sthefany Brito was similar to that of Sabrina Petraglia: she became pregnant during a break in the recording of Amor Sem Igual. However, Sthefany was able to continue in the cast as the villain Donatella because there were few scenes left to shoot. At five months of gestation, the direction chose not to change anything in the character, just making changes to the costume to disguise the protruding belly, filming from the breasts up and using a stunt double for scenes that showed the entire body.

The production of How I Met Your Mother had extra work during the filming of Season 5, as not one, but two actresses of the fixed cast got pregnant at the same time🇧🇷 But, to the delight of the fans, they came up with some really fun solutions. Cobie Smulders, who played Canadian Robin, had to wear baggy clothes or cover her stomach with large objects such as purses. She was also seen constantly carrying everyone’s clothes to the laundry room.

For Alison Hannigan, Lily, the trick of hiding her belly with objects and baggy clothes was also used, but the actress’ big belly was shown once. In one episode, Lily participated in a hot dog eating contest and, at the end, appears with a very funny swollen belly. Many may have thought it was a prosthesis, but it was the actress’s real belly! Later, Alison became pregnant again, but it wasn’t a problem as Lily was also expecting a child in the series.

For the muse Grazi Massafera, everything collaborated so that the pregnancy during the recordings of That Beijo went smoothly. First, she called the author, Miguel Falabella, to warn about the pregnancy, who found the attitude very elegant. Afterwards, they just made some changes to the script so that the character, the con artist Lucena, would trick another character by saying that the child was his. Finally, to justify the actress’ maternity leave, the character moved to Colombia.

Sarah Jessica Parker found out she was pregnant shortly before the start of the shooting of the 5th season of Sex And The City. So, when work began, it was the duty of the costume designers to plan clothes and accessories that would hide the prominent belly. But it didn’t last long, as the production decided to make a shorter season. This is the only one that only has 8 episodes, when the others used to have 18.

A similar solution was implemented in Parks and Recreation, when lead actress Amy Poehler became pregnant. She herself praised the good work of the costume designers and camera operators, while one of her co-stars confessed that they were constantly in strategic positions to hide their belly. Also, the year Amy became pregnant, the usual break in American shows, called a hiatus, was a little longer, so she could take care of the baby.

On the other hand, the producers of the soap opera Viver a Vida had no trouble hiding Giovanna Antonelli’s pregnancy. That’s because, even before knowing that the actress was expecting twins, her character Dora already had a pregnancy planned in the script. Giovanna was still happy to be able to “train” to be a mother during the recordings. A huge coincidence, isn’t it?

For the producers of Once Upon A Time, it was not so difficult to hide the pregnancy of Ginnifer Goodwin, who played Snow White. After all, the recordings took place during the winter of Vancouver, Canada, which allowed the actress to wear warm and comfortable clothes – despite being noticeably wider in the belly. Still, the actress’ pregnancy was included in the Snow White story, when the writers jumped the plot to a year in the future and showed her belly in flashbacks.

For a comedy series, there’s nothing better than a funny (not to mention weird) solution to hide a pregnancy. In 30 Rock, when actress Jane Krakowski became pregnant, the producers put her in a dog costume that definitely hid her belly. Later, the character decided to gain weight to be cast in a fictional Broadway musical, Mystic Pizza, The Musical.

But no one beats the solution to hiding Gillian Anderson’s pregnancy. Her character, Agent Dana Scully, was absent from several episodes of Season 2 simply because she was abducted by aliens. Nothing more conducive to a science fiction series than that, right?

Camila Pitanga, while recording Paraíso Tropical, experienced an even more surprising coincidence than that of Giovanna Antonelli. She played Bebel, a character who got pregnant, but lost the baby after a fall. After shooting this scene, Camila was left with a surreal fear of falling. Without understanding why, she even thought she was pregnant.

So Camila bought a pregnancy test at the pharmacy and it came back negative, so she thought it was a psychological pregnancy generated by the scene she recorded as Bebel. But even after the test, that bad feeling didn’t go away. The actress finally decided to look for a doctor to be examined and discovered…