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.)

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And while we're talking Friends, Lisa's co-star Courtney Cox was also pregnant while shooting the show. They simply ignored her pregnancy, although towards the end it was kinda hard to miss.