When actresses get pregnant, their baby bumps are often integrated into the script. Authors usually try their best to incorporate a pregnancy somehow harmoniously into the story, but that doesn’t always work out: in such cases, the set crew has to come up with something.
Laundry baskets are used to hide the baby bumps, and boxes of cornflakes or cinnamon plants are used to keep the pregnancy a secret. And more often than not, the hiding game works really well. Otherwise, would you have ever noticed in “Sex and the City” that Sarah Jessica Parker was pregnant during filming? We tracked down a few covered-up pregnancies in series.
While filming “Vanity Fair,” reverse actress Reese Witherspoon was only allowed to wear flowing empire-waist dresses in dark colors to hide her growing belly. However, having the advantage of lush, low-lit sets also gave her plenty of opportunities to hide her midriff when the camera was on her.