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* ''[[General Hospital]]'' used this where actress Jacklyn Zeman got pregnant. It couldn't be written in because her character Bobbie had had a hysterectomy.

* Kelly Rutherford was pregnant during the second season of ''[[Gossip Girl]]''. At first they succeeded pretty well in hiding it, but towards the end they got really sloppy.

* Both [[Alyson Hannigan]] and Cobie Smulders were pregnant in the fourth season of ''[[How I Met Your Mother (TV)|How I Met Your Mother]]''. It was much easier for Smulders given how tall she is, but Robin did spend most of her camera time sitting down. For Hannigan, her pregnancy resulted in the typical motions of baggy clothing, Lily suddenly incorporating guitar playing into her teaching style, and a lot of scenes behind things.

** Groundwork for a pregnancy storyline was even put in motion that would have provided an easy way around the whole issue. A perfect plan {{spoiler|that was abandoned entirely, as Lily and Marshall decide later in the same episode to wait to have kids}}, and to top it off, a later episode features Lily in a hot-dog eating competition. The result? A [[Balloon Belly|visibly expanded stomach]]. (This gag was also used on ''[[Titus (TV)|Titus]]''). The end of the pregnancy and birth was covered by {{spoiler|Barney telling an incredibly dirty joke and Lily refusing to be around him for four weeks}}.

* One of [[Lucille Ball]]'s pregnancies was hidden during the very early episodes (possibly just the pilot?) of ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' .

** Averted with her second pregnancy: the [[Moral Guardians]] wanted her to do this, as pregnancy was a taboo subject in media at the time, but she refused, and the episode where Lucy gives birth wound up setting a new Nielson record. Since the word 'pregnant' couldn't be used on TV, the show coined (or at least popularized) the term 'expecting'.

** However; zig-zagged because a couple of episodes had used the classic tricks of shooting her at an angle, putting something in front of her, or only having her visible from the chest up in certain shots. You can especially see this in the swimming pool episode.

* When ''[[JAG]]'' actress [[Catherine Bell]] became pregnant, Mac was appointed as a judge, to allow her to sit behind a big judge desk. (Military judges don't wear robes.)

* Completely averted with Kari Byron of ''[[Myth Busters (TV)|Myth Busters]]'', with the show being a non-fiction science series and all. Because of her pregnancy, she [[Alcohol Is Poison|couldn't participate in the hangover myth.]] Didn't stop her from enjoying Grant and Tory's discomfiture and their [[Hangover Sensitivity]] [[Jerkass|way too much, though]]. She also exercised extra precautions when doing gun myths.

{{quote| '''Kari:''' Protecting for two!}}

** This may have been lampshade hanging for Tina Fey's own pregnancy which was becoming visible at that time.

* ''[[The Nanny]]'' provides the page image of Lauren Lane, who played C.C Babcock.(Out of character as she's portrayed as being hopeless at attracting men). They even did some [[Lampshade Hanging]] with this one by having her carry a poster with "Baby" on it in front of her, and by making references to the ''[[Seinfeld (TV)|Seinfeld]]'' example.