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Who is the one person no one ever questions or suspects? A pregnant woman! Many have picked up this handy little fact and seen its potential for whenever you need to get away with something. But real pregnancy is messy and takes too long. Not to worry! There is a simple trick to getting the full effect of being pregnant without having to go through all the trouble of actually becoming pregnant: Step 1: Stuff a pillow up your shirt. Congratulations! Now everyone who sees you will conclude that you are in some late stage of pregnancy and won't question or harass you about anything! Also quite useful if someone actually thinks you are pregnant when you really aren't, although they may get curious when the natural follow-up never happens. Sometimes two boys will do this to be a pregnant woman in a trench coat. Subtrope of Fake Pregnancy. A form of Obfuscating Disability. Compare Fake Boobs. |
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A similar stunt was pulled on Kate & Allie in The '80s, to hide Susan St. James' pregnancy by stuffing Jane Curtin to match in one episode. (They justified it by making it a flashback episode to when the title characters were pregnant with their daughters.) | |
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On Desperate Housewives, Bree uses a fake belly to convince her friends she's pregnant rather than admit that it's really her teenage daughter who's pregnant. She even passes the child off as her own for a bit, but when Edie finds out and tries to blackmail her, Bree confesses the truth to her friends, who forgive her. | |
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In the film The Cooler, Mikey and Charlene make use of this trope. They extract money from Bernie, and later Charlene attempts to stop a fight by pretending to go into labor. | |
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Done in Good Luck Charlie when Amy and Teddy go to a restaurant to get some salad dressing that supposedly induces labor (Amy was a few weeks late on her latest pregnancy). Teddy managed to sneak into the restaurant's kitchen and steal the dressing then tried to tuck it underneath her shirt as if she too was pregnant. Unfortunately one of the employees found her out straight away. | |
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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 and Danny have a bit of fun with her, admiring how her ankles haven't swollen at all and how she's still able to wear heels. When Danny causes two stolen items fall out of her shirt by knocking on her stomach, Stella congratulates her on twins. | |
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MythBusters: Kari Byron announced her pregnancy with a short video on the Discovery website. Grant had a hard hat stuffed under his shirt to provide fake bump, and Tory had a ball under his. Kari's bump was real. | |
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Full House: Toyed with in the episode "Rock the Cradle". Rebecca is already pregnant when she puts a pillow under her pajamas. In the episode "The Volunteer", it's a "pad" instead of a "pillow", but the trope applies all the same otherwise. Rebecca has Jesse strapping a pad around his waist to get him to truly understand what being pregnant is like. |
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In G.I. Joe: Renegades, Scarlett—after a pair of failed Bavarian Fire Drills—poses as a trailer-trash babymama to infiltrate a prison that Duke is in. | |
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On Days of Our Lives, Kristen padded her clothing after miscarrying John's baby, fearful that he would leave her otherwise. | |
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On the Fastrack Chelonia's twin brother Mark once disguised himself as her, trying to hide after losing his company. As she is pregnant at this time, Mark imitates her pregnancy with a weather balloon under a maternity dress. Dethany requests to her hovering mother Ann, who is visiting soon, that she not look up any information on her before coming, wanting to tell her things she doesn't already know. When Ann arrives, Dethany greets her with a distended belly... only to pull out a pillow and reveal she was kidding. Dethany later pulls a similar joke on Rose, this time using a light-up jack-o-lantern (it's around Halloween time). She says it's to scare her mom. |
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On Arrested Development, Maggie Lizer is supposed to be a surrogate mother, but after she couldn't get pregnant she delegates it and pretends to carry the baby with a realistic false belly. | |
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In the first episode of Cowboy Bebop, "Asteroid Blues", a woman named Catalina fakes a pregnancy by stuffing drugs up her dress. Yes, you heard right. She smuggles drugs in a fake belly. What happens to her in the end is heartbreaking. | |
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Briefly done for a gag in Brain Donors. Literal ambulance chaser Roland T. Flakfizer arrives at the scene of a minor car accident and sees a woman passenger. He immediately sticks an instant-inflating pillow under her dress and starts loudly yelling about the liability costs. | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: In the episode "The Jimmy-Jab Games", the cops play a game where they go undercover and talk to as many people as possible without being recognized. Amy dresses as a pregnant woman using a pillow, but her cover is blown when she accidentally moves it to the side. In the episode "Maximum Security", Amy again goes undercover as a pregnant inmate in a women's prison. Unlike the previous time, Amy's actress actually was pregnant in real life. |
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If Life is a Bowl of Cherries -- What Am I Doing in the Pits?: An unintentional example appears in "Fashions and Fads that Underwhelmed Me". Erma wearing a pillow stomach (for girls who want a healthy appearance) caused two men to give up their seats and lift her into them and another to call the police to report a woman in labor. Consequently, the "stomach" was retired to the couch. | |
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The Muppet Show: In the John Cleese episode, Miss Piggy sings "Waiting At the Church" while dressed as a jilted, pregnant bride. | |
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In the movie Young Doctors in Love, a prostitute named Julie uses a balloon to fake her pregnancy (she was making Heel–Face Turn out of the business), but a Jerkass doctor pops it in a Kick the Dog moment. | |
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An episode of Kenan & Kel has them attempt to speak to someone in a hospital. To get in they use this trope to disguise Kel as a pregnant woman going into labor. This finally leads to the line: | |
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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". | |
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Miu from Strawberry Marshmallow decides to stuff a pillow under her nightdress after sleeping with Nobue. No, not in that way. | |
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One episode of Call the Midwife has a mother pull this in preparation for a planned Family Relationship Switcheroo involving the child of her pregnant teenaged daughter. | |
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In Victory Gundam, the White Ark is boarded at one point when attempting to sneak into Zanscare territory. The crew, mostly consisting of kids and Marbet, pretend to be Zanscare refugees fleeing the warfront while hiding their equipment under Marbet's shirt, making her look very pregnant. In a twist, Marbet actually was pregnant at the time, but it was too early for it to be showing. | |
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SAS: Rise of the Black Swan: There's a woman sweeping the leaves at the gate of the mansion the SAS are about to raid who claims to be six months pregnant. She turns out to be a guard wearing a belly pouch, a Bulletproof Vest and an automatic weapon under her coat. | |
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Also done in the Logan Series 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. | |
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From The Goes Wrong Show: In "The Lodge", Vanessa plays a pregnant woman, so she has a balloon stuck up her shirt. It bursts every time she or someone else touches her belly. At one point it gets out and floats tethered alongside her as her character moves around the set—and it's also a bright blue that shows through her pajama shirt when she gets a chance to put it back. In "The Nativity", Sandra plays the Virgin Mary and has a bowling ball stuffed beneath her costume, with little effort made to obscure its spherical shape. The ball also falls out onto other characters' toes. |
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In Errant Story, Meji once sneaked out of a guarded city by pretending to be pregnant. Her 'belly', however, actually contained her snarky, flying cat familiar, Ellis. Meanwhile, Ian dressed like a priest and persuaded the guards to let her through, doing a cover-up.note Verancia is a very religious city. Ian heavily implied that there was no way of knowing who the child's father might be. | |
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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"]. | |
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An episode of The A-Team had Murdock posing as a pregnant woman (long story). Instead of a pillow, Murdock's "baby" was a bag filled with dynamite. | |
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One Life to Live's Alex does this, coming up with medical excuses as to why she and husband Carlo can't have sex and why he can't come to the doctor with her. Ex-husband Asa finds out what she's up to and rips off her dress in public, literally exposing her secret. | |
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A humorous version on General Hospital, when Luke and Laura returned to town and needed an excuse as to why they were speeding. When they were inevitably pulled over, Laura pretended to be in labor. | |
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On Passions, Beth does a variation of this in an attempt to lure Luis away from Sheridan, who actually was pregnant (although in the latter's case, it was not known if either he or his brother, Antonio, whom she was married to at the time, was the father of the unborn child.) What method did Beth end up using instead of a big, fluffy pillow? A bag of sugar, which at some point was even burst open in the middle of an obstetrician's office. Oddly enough, although Luis was once concerned about why the baby wasn't kicking in her stomach when he placed his hand on her belly, he never did figure out that the pregnancy was fake. | |
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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. | |
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Will & Grace: After the titular duo attempt to have a child together via IVF, Grace stuffs a pillow under her shirt to see what she'll look like once she starts to show. She then shoves the pillow further up to make her breasts look bigger. | |
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Done in the film Tulip Fever by a wealthy woman who wants to help her unwed servant girl avoid public disgrace and provide her husband with an heir. | |
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Along with cutting and dyeing her hair, the heroine of Safe Haven employs this to disguise her appearance when she flees her abusive husband. | |
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Not Cool: The main characters try to shoplift a watermelon from the grocery store by having Tori put it under her shirt and pretend to be pregnant, only for Tori to trip and fall on the way out, splattering the melon and sending everyone in the store into horrified screaming fits. | |
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Infamously, Terri on Glee fakes a pregnancy for months on her husband by doing this (and not allowing him anywhere near her). | |
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An episode of M*A*S*H had Klinger try this in yet another attempt to get out of the Army. Col. Blake didn't buy it for a second. | |
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In the Monk episode "Mr. Monk Is At Your Service", to further a murder investigation, Natalie has to go to a party hosted by Paul Buchanan, who had stalked her in high school. To discourage Buchanan's attempted advances, she stuffs a pillow under her shirt and pretends to be pregnant. Making it even more interesting: Natalie's actress Traylor Howard actually was pregnant during filming of this episode and the second half of season 5 as a whole. For most of her scenes in the other episodes, including the scenes where she isn't passing herself off as pregnant, they shot her with special camera angles to hide her lower body, such as having her stand behind an open car door, sitting down at Captain Stottlemeyer's desk, etc. By writing in a faked pregnancy for the plot, the producers were able to shoot Natalie's scenes after she shows up at the Buchanan house the same, they'd shoot any other episode. |
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Mary-Maria uses this to smuggle a pair of guns into Area 51 in Archer & Armstrong. "It's twins." | |
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The Drew Carey Show: Done by Kate in an early season, was actually her way of smuggling beer into a professional wrestling event. Leading to a humorous case of a professional wrestler telling her she shouldn't drink when pregnant. In "What's Wrong with This Episode?", Kate and Lewis both (supposedly) have a Pillow Pregnancy; in reality, however, Christa Miller is actually pregnant and is pulling a Hide Your Pregnancy. |
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Done in Hardcore Pawn, where a woman had a pad strapped around her chest to make herself look pregnant and fed Ashley a sob story. Trying to be nice, she sold the woman a rocking horse for half off and told her to come back after she had the baby to possibly get a job. The pad fell off in the parking lot while they were loading the rocking horse in her truck. | |
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In The Sure Thing, the risks of over-doing the fakery are noted: | |
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DeviantArt user BADBOYCH did an artwork of two boys disguising themselves as their very pregnant mother in order to visit their very sick grandmother in the hospital. It can seen here. | |
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There's a Get Smart fan fic where 99 uses this to get Max out of a jam. | |
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In the Sooty and Co. episode, "Soo's Babies", having spent the day talking about babies and seeing human and animal babies, Soo decies to play a trick on Matthew by pretending to be pregnant, stuffing toy pandas in her dress. At first, Matthew thinks she's just put on weight, but then Soo displays all the signs of being pregant and pretends she's giving birth to baby pandas. note The episode itself recieved complaints from parents and was listed in the #20 spot on E4's Top 20 "Most Controversial TV Programmes". On E4's show, Brenda Longman (who played Mo and voiced Soo in the show), said the idea came about because Matthew tended to write for his daughter, and based the episode on the time his daughter wandered into his room with a pillow up her jumper, saying she was going to have a baby. | |
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Done as an April Fool's joke in 1991 by Vanna White on Wheel of Fortune when she had a cushion stuffed under her dress. Became Harsher in Hindsight a year later when Vanna suffered a miscarriage. | |
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In one FoxTrot strip, Jason and Marcus have pillows under their shirts. At first they're bugging people with "I think we ate too much Halloween candy" and then when that doesn't get a reaction, it's "I think we're pregnant." | |
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Frances McDormand wore a pregnancy suit while shooting Fargo because her character Marge was heavily pregnant and remarked that the extra weight and bulk really helped her get into character. | |
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Funny Girl plays this for comic and not deceptive effect. Fanny Brice is cast in the Ziegfeld Follies as the bridal star of the grand finale "His Love Makes Me Beautiful." However, Fanny thinks she's far too ugly for any man to sing about her rapturous beauty, so she plays the number for laughs by sticking a pillow under the belly of the wedding dress she's wearing, and singing to match. | |
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In Drowtales it turns out that Zala'ess Vel'Sharen was doing this during her negotiations with Quain'tana, with the suggestion that it served a dual purpose of making her look good (as drow culturally value motherhood immensely) and as a dig against Quain, who's infertile and very sore on the subject. It also saves Zala's life when a would-be assassin attempts to stab her there and hits the pillow instead, leaving her unharmed. | |
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In the "Escape From Pain" episode of Trigun, Milly smuggles a teenage girl under her coat. Though the girl is pretty petite, and Milly rather tall, the resultant bulge is still large enough that she attracts curious scrutiny (including one old woman asking if she's expecting sextuplets), though she still manages to use this to fool the people chasing the girl she's hiding. | |
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The Bill. A pregnant woman working in a car factory is smuggling out spare parts for resale. She overdoes it by remaining 'pregnant' for ten months. | |
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Gossip City: As part of her act, Kaori pretended to be 5 months pregnant. She tried to order wine but she is stopped by Hiroshi and then she tried to play it off as a joke. Kaori pretended to be pregnant with Shota's baby after he cheated on Sanae with her. When Tomiko was about to hit her, she begged her not to because she's pregnant, but Tomiko knows that she's not pregnant. |
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In the Landry Series novel Tarnished Gold, Gabrielle Landry is raped by Octavius Tate, whose wife wants to fake a pregnancy in order to pretend the baby is hers. She insists on making it look as authentic as possible by periodically measuring Gabrielle to determine how many pillows to use. | |
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In Garden of Shadows, Olivia Foxworth must stuff her clothes with a progressively larger series of pillows to make it appear that she really is pregnant, so the servants don't realize that the baby who is about to join the family is really the result of her husband Malcolm raping his stepmother. | |
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Etra chan saw it!: Yuzuriha, Kuroki's ex-girlfriend and stalker, crashed into his wedding claiming she is pregnant with Kuroki's baby. Tokusa and the guests immediately noticed that she is not pregnant but instead stuffed a watermelon under her dress. | |
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This occurs in an episode of Operation Repo, in which a woman fakes being pregnant, even going so far as to fake going into labor, in order to keep her car from being repossessed. When her ruse is found out, the Repo team is not happy. | |
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In Baby Mama, Angie invests in a prosthetic belly when another pregnant woman points out that they're equally far along, but Angie isn't showing. The fact that this makes her go from a flat stomach to a hugely round one overnight goes unremarked upon. And since it turns out she actually was pregnant anyway, it turns out to be unnecessary. | |
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In a deleted scene from Firefly, River, in one of her crazier moments, uses a pillow to pretend to be pregnant... so Book can marry her to Simon. | |
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In Friends, Monica has decided to shoplift a blue sweater as her "something blue" and "something borrowed." She shoves it up her blouse and has a quick maternal moment, to which her fiance remarks "One thing at a time". | |
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In the Spongebob Squarepants episode "The Cent of Money", Mr. Krabs attempts this when he steals money from an arcade with Gary. He pulls it off until Spongebob arrives. | |
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In the "Harlem Globetrotters" episode of TV Funhouse, the team accidentally travels back to the first Christmas, where they decide to play Mary, Joseph and some others in a game of basketball for who gets the inn as opposed to who sleeps in the barn. Naturally, the Globetrotters PWN the Bethlehem players until Baby Jesus is born, after which he begins defeating the Globetrotters with his miracle powers. Meadowlark then gets one of his brilliant ideas and takes a hint from Mary by pulling a Pillow Pregnancy with the basketball under his shirt, in order to sneak past and score the winning basket. | |
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