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.)

Alyson Hannigan

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In How I Met Your Mother, Alyson Hannigan's character's pregnant belly was put down to a food baby - and eating too many hotdogs. Yeah right! * strangely craves a hot dog *