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== Comic Books ==
 
* Shortly before being thrown off a bridge by the Green Goblin, [[Spider -Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man's]] girlfriend Gwen Stacey spent some time in Europe. Recently this was revealed to be because she had slept with [[Secret Identity Identity|Norman Osborn]] and become pregnant. The twins she gave birth to were artificially aged rapidly, gained super powers and eventually returned to New York to attempt to kick Spider-man's ass. It made about as much sense as that sounds.
** Though Gwen's (canonically nigh-impossible) disappearance was due less to propriety and more to ducking the psychotic Norman Osborn.
 
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== Literature ==
 
* [[Older Than Print]]: A ''really weird'' example appears in ''[[Arabian Nights (Literature)|The Arabian Nights]]''. A [[Jackass Genie]] brings a man from Damascus to Cairo, where he falls in love with a woman (the daughter of the Vizier of Egypt), marries her, and sleeps with her. Then the [[Jackass Genie]] brings the man ''back to Damascus'', which leaves the woman in a bit of a predicament when it turns out she's pregnant. She tells her son that his grandfather is his father, but the lie is revealed when the boy becomes very cocky and goes around telling everyone that his father is the Vizier of Egypt. Wanting to put a stop to this, his schoolmaster tells him that the Vizier is his grandfather and that nobody knows who his father is. Of course, his mother is reunited with his real father eventually.
* The Edith Wharton short story ''Roman Fever'' involves a version of this trope.
* ''My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding'' and ''My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon'' each have stories like this.
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== Live Action TV ==
 
* In ''[[Reaper (TV)|Reaper]]'', Sock attempts to cheer Sam up by telling him a story about a girl he knew in 11th grade who got shipped off to convent school for getting pregnant in high school.
* ''[[Cold Case (TV)|Cold Case]]'' had this in one of their episodes. Both the killer and the victim were these.
** The episode was called "The Goodbye Room" and the nuns were selling the babies in an illegal adoption scheme. {{spoiler|when the victim found out, she tried to run away with her baby girl, but was caught by the killer whose son was sold earlier that week and didn't think it was fair that the victim was planning to keep her child when she couldn't.}}
* In the third season of ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]],'' Manny is terrified of telling her parents about her pregnancy because her cousin (back in the Philippines) was shipped to a convent for getting pregnant.
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* Lily was packed off to a convent in ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' when she fell pregnant {{spoiler|with Chuck}}. Naturally, when Lily turns up at the same convent umpteen years later with Olive in tow, the nuns immediately assume that she's pregnant too...
** Lily's cover story was that she was in Paris, apprenticing at a world-class fromagerie.
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who's]]'' "The Unicorn And The Wasp", where Lady Eddison is laid up for about thirty-eight weeks with "a bout of malaria".
** And a key to saving the day in "The Doctor Dances".
* While the specific trope isn't ''quite'' invoked in ''[[Mad Men]]'', there's a flashback in which {{spoiler|Peggy's mother}} is telling callers that her daughter, who's just given birth, is being quarantined for TB.
* One episode of ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' included one of the suspects, an actress, abandoning her career and disappearing "abroad" for "almost a year", thirty years earlier. As Jessica quickly realises, "nine months is almost a year".
* When Lois gets pregnant on ''[[Pobol Yy Cwm]]'', her mother, the local [[British Education System|headmistress]], tells her to stay home "sick" from school until she can arrange for an abortion. When Lois refuses the abortion, Gaynor wants her "transfer" to another school until it's born.
* Inverted in ''[[That 70s Show]]''; when Donna goes on an extended road trip, Jackie does her a "favor" and explains her absence - by telling everyone Donna went away to have a baby. By Donna's reaction, this is a far worse explanation.
 
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== Western Animation ==
 
* Parodied in ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' when Stan took Steve to Mexico to "remove the inside zit" after getting pregnant by Roger.
* An episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' had the high school principal ask where a certain cheerleader was. One of the male students says "She went to Oklahoma!" while suggestively stuffing a basketball under his shirt.
* {{spoiler|Dermott Fictel}} of ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'' was raised by his grandmother as his mother's little brother.
 
== Real Life ==
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