The sneaky ways TV shows tried to hide characters’ real life pregnancies

When actors get pregnant in real life, the shows they work on sometimes go to great lengths to conceal the pregnancy and maintain their fictional character’s storyline …

… and then sometimes they don’t! (We’re looking at you, Courtney Cox.)

Melissa Fumero

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Melissa Fumero from Brooklyn Nine-Nine hid her belly behind an endless succession of desks, oversized handbags, gift baskets and plants. They then sent her character to prison, in the guise of a fake pregnant inmate.