Pillow Pregnancy: Difference between revisions

== Film ==

* [[Angelina Jolie]] does it in the movie ''Taking Lives'', though she uses a more convincing prosthetic to convince Ethan Hawke that she's eight months pregnant with his child, so that he'll think she's unable to fight back when he attacks her. In the end, she shoots him dead, and then finally removes the prosthetic to show the audience that she had been faking her pregnancy for nine whole months, simply to bait him.

** This also creates an opportunity for a particularly disturbing [[Kick the Dog]] moment on the part of Ethan Hawke's character, who {{spoiler|stabs her "pregnant" belly with a pair of scissors, evidently willing to kill her even though he believed her pregnant with his own twins...}}

* Short story "Golden Girl" by [[Ellis Peters]]. While a pregnant woman is taking a sea voyage, the ship is damaged and starts to sink. After the woman puts on a life jacket, one of the ship's officers drops her into the sea so she can be rescued by nearby boats. Much to his surprise, she sinks straight to the bottom. It turns out that she had been smuggling 30 pounds of gold bars in the padding under her maternity smock.

** Also done in ''Olivia'', where Olivia Logan (no relation to Olivia Foxworth) does this so that she can pass off her sister's illegitimate child as her own.

* Sara has one in the [[Artefacts Of Power]] series by [[Maggie Furey]].

* The episode Better Than Life of Red Dwarf features Rimmer's wife pregnant in a VR simulation. In the outtakes, she blows a line and says "Sorry my pregnancy fell out"

* An early challenge on season 6 of [[Project Runway]] was to make a maternity outfit. However, instead of designing for real pregnant women, the designers designed for their regular models wearing a pillow. Some of them did ''not'' look convincingly pregnant.

* ''[[CSI: NY]]'' did this with a shoplifter, who got the items out of the store by putting them inside her clothes and making herself look pregnant. Stella wasn't fooled because her ankles weren't swollen *and* she was wearing high heels. When Stella makes the two items fall out, she says "Congratulations...twins!"

* In an episode of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Katara dons this guise to pretend to be "Sapphire Fire" [Sokka's "wife" and Aang's "mother"].

* In a newer episode of Spongebob Squarepants, Mr. Krabs attempts this when {{spoiler|he steals money from an arcade with Gary.}} He pulls it off until Spongebob arrives.

== Real Life ==