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.)

Zooey Deschanel

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Zooey Deschanel's non-pregnant New Girl character fell down the stairs and had to lie in bed surrounded by pillows when she was real-life pregnant. As her bump progressed, she was shipped off to jury duty.