10 actresses who starred in their best movies while pregnant

The actors work in a tight schedule, so neither illness, nor poor health, nor weather conditions and other negative life moments will serve as a valid reason for postponing filming.

The most difficult thing is for girls who find out about their pregnancy in the process of filming, it is also difficult for the workers on the set. After all, stylists must rethink the visual image, the cameramen must select the right angles, in which the roundness of the actresses will not be visible.

The work itself becomes nervous and difficult for pregnant women, because actresses get tired quickly. Probably, only in the series, pregnancy is a good reason for postponing filming, and then only the filming of the scenes of the actress herself is transferred, or they use an understudy even in conversational scenes. But we will talk about this in more detail in our selection.

10 Courteney Cox, “Friends”

Courteney Cox played the character Monica Geller in the famous comedy series Friends. Despite the fact that Monica was never able to have children of her own on the show, Kourtney, fortunately, did not have such problems.

The tummy appeared in season 10. The dressers tried to hide the roundness under voluminous sweaters and oversized shirts, but if the viewer takes a closer look, then in some shots the pregnancy of the actress is clearly visible. This is especially noticeable in the shots where Monica and Chandler hold their newborn children in their arms.

9. Angelina Jolie, Changeling

On the set of Changeling, Jolie was pregnant with twins, but no one noticed this, since the period during filming was very short.

But psychologically, the pregnancy was difficult for Jolie herself, because the Changeling is about a mother who is experiencing the loss of her child.

The movie is based on real events. It was highly acclaimed by critics, as was Angelina’s acting.

8. Emily Blunt, The Girl on the Train

The film is based on the bestselling book of the same name. According to the plot, the main character Rachel every day passes by a beautiful house by train, in the windows of which she sees an ideal, at first glance, married couple.

The idyll collapses when the whole city is shaken by the news of the missing owner of the house, and Rachel seems to know more than she should.

In the film, Emily Blunt plays the main character, who really wanted a child, but had problems with it. In life, Emily had a short period, because the actress did not know about the pregnancy even on the set.

Colleagues even worried that Blunt got used to the role of a hysterical woman too much, but Emily herself said that because of hormones, it was easy for her to play an unstable person.

7. Reese Witherspoon, Vanity Fair

In the film, Reese Witherspoon plays a young girl from the poor neighborhoods of London. Her heroine has a big dream to get into high society and thanks to her natural charm she succeeds, despite the struggle with public resistance.

Reese was pregnant during filming, but her rounded belly was successfully hidden by the puffy skirts and high corsets that were typical of the era shown in the film. In some scenes, Witherspoon is deliberately filmed so that the girl below the waist is standing behind a chest of drawers or a high table.

6. Kate Winslet, “Divergent”

During the filming of the film, Winslet’s stomach was hidden under strict dark suits, sewn in a certain style. Also, the film crew filmed the girl from the right angles so that the roundness of the actress would not fall into the frame once again.

In the course of filming, the question arose of how to shoot fight scenes, because the actress’s belly was already quite noticeable, and Winslet categorically refused the help of an understudy. As a result, extreme shooting with stunts and chases was filmed when Kate had already given birth to a child.

5. Scarlett Johansson, Avengers: Age of Ultron

The actress had a very short pregnancy, so there was no need to hide the girl’s belly on the set. Even despite the fact that the entire duration of the film, Agent Romanoff walks in a leather suit that is tight all over his body.

Pregnancy had a bad effect on the well-being of the actress: she was annoyed, quickly tired and disrupted the timing of filming. As a result, the filmmakers decided to replace Johansson with an understudy not only in the fight scenes, but also in many conversational scenes, so as not to strain the actress once again.

4. Blake Lively, The Age of Adaline

Lively’s long-awaited second pregnancy came at the time of the filming of The Age of Adaline, but the actress starred on a par with her colleagues, without whims and shortened scenes. The girl’s belly was not noticeable in the film thanks to the work of stylists and cameramen, although the girl was filmed almost until the very end of her pregnancy.

3. Helena Bonham Carter, Sweeney Todd

Tim Burton’s next movie masterpiece starred, of course, his wife Helena Bonham Carter. The woman played the role of Mrs. Lovett and was in early pregnancy, so there was no need to hide the stomach. The girl’s pregnancy could only be guessed by her breasts growing from frame to frame.

For a long time, the couple could not choose a name for a child born after filming. As a result, the daughter was named Nell and the reason for this was the role of Helena in the movie “Sweeney Todd”, because Carter’s character was called Nellie.

2. Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City

Sarah Jessica Parker found out about her situation at the beginning of the filming of season 5, which greatly puzzled the stylists of the series. From the stomach of the girl in every possible way distracted attention with massive accessories on the neck and chest of the actress, as well as voluminous and loose dresses.

However, only 8 episodes were filmed for the season, since it was not possible to hide Sarah’s belly anymore.

1. Lena Headey, Game of Thrones

Headey played Cersei Lannister in the series. In a movie family, the woman had three children, but the actress acquired real ones during the filming of Game of Thrones. In the fifth season, in many shots where Cersei is standing in familiar dresses, you can notice a rounded tummy. And in the series, where they show a naked Lannister, who goes through the path of shame to the royal palace, I had to shoot the understudy of the actress.

The shooting of this scene took three whole days, so that the viewer did not notice the substitution in the end, because the actress was 5 months pregnant at the time of filming.