27 Actors Who Played Pregnant Characters While Pregnant IRL

We’ve seen Hollywood handle different situations in varying ways. Some can be handled amazingly, while others are an absolute train wreck. When you’re an actor, life doesn’t stop just because you’re playing a role in a movie or show. Everyone has a life outside of work, and sometimes, actors can fall pregnant, even though their characters are not at that stage of life yet.

So, what do the showrunners do? Well, oftentimes, they hide the actors’ pregnancy with strategic angles and hide their bellies in different ways, especially if the character can’t be written as pregnant. Sometimes, we also get awful storylines where they make the characters arc that they are going through weight changes, like in Frasier, or sometimes they even fire the actor for getting pregnant.

But then there are the times when an actor falls pregnant, and the show or movie decides to write that into the project. It happens more often than you think, and it even happens a couple of times in some favorite shows like Bones. We love it when shows and movies embrace what’s going on in the actors’ lives, and let them be pregnant comfortably on and off set.

From shows like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia to How I Met Your Mother, and even for movies like Oceans Twelve, there have been quite a few instances where a pregnant actor plays a pregnant character.

See the examples below.