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.
In “This Is Us”, Mandy Moore plays both the younger and the older version of her character Rebecca Pearson. Her 2020 pregnancy had to be taken into account in the series since her older character definitely could not carry a child. Show creator Dan Fogelman said that viewers could expect to see less of the old Rebecca and focus more on the timeline where Rebecca was pregnant with triplets until Mandy gave birth.
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