History Main / PillowPregnancy

* 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.

* 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.

Two people will do this to be [[{{TotemPoleTrench}} pregnant woman in a Trench coat]].

* This occurs in an episode of ''OperationRepo'', 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 was found out, the Repo team was [[{{Understatement}} not happy]].

Two people will do this to be [[{{TotemPoleTrench}} pregnant woman in a Trench coat]]

* Miu from IchigoMashimaro decides to stuff a pillow under her nightdress after sleeping (no dirty thoughts, i meant real sleeping) with Nobue.

* Miu from IchigoMashimaro decides to stuff a pillow under her nightdress after sleeping (no dirty thoughts, i meant real sleeping) with Nobue.

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** This also creates an opportunity for a particularly disturbing KickTheDog 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...]]

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* According to [[http://books.google.com/books?id=NKIkl0eRErAC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=A+circus+dwarf+was+swallowed+by+a+hippo:+a+guide+to+hoaxes&source=bl&ots=ZDUPoklXZU&sig=HFmvPlmOy5Kma7yNgKY0l2GBcTQ&hl=en&ei=ELH0S_j7B4G78gb4pNy0Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCsQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.'']], the fake pregnancy is a classic con: usually going that a girl pads herself up and then pretends that she wants to put the "baby" up for adoption, getting whoever wants to adopt the baby to pay her in advance (possibly multiple couples at once!). She then runs off, never to be heard from again.

* Also true for some baby thieves; unable to have children of their own, they fake pregnancies and then kidnap a baby at about the right time, fooling people around them into thinking the new child is actually theirs. There have been a few recent cases where it gets much worse, and women have [[{{squick}} murdered and cut open actual pregnant women to steal their unborn children.]]


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* In ''Garden of Shadows,'' the prequel to VCAndrews' ''Flowers in the Attic'' series, Olivia 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 [[spoiler:the baby who is about to join the family is really the result of her husband Malcolm raping his stepmother]].

A form of ObfuscatingDisability.

* In a newer episode of Spongebob Squarepants, Mr. Krabs attempts this when [[spoiler:he steals money from a local casino type building with Gary.]] He pulls it off until Spongebob arrives.

* Very much true for shoplifting and drug smuggling. However, the version in which someone ''[[CompleteMonster guts a real baby]] [[{{Squick}} and stuffs it full of bags of coke.]]'' is still just an urban legend.

* 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.

** A similar ad was featuring a couple driving at high speed during the streets. They get stopped by the police and, upon seeing the very-pregnant woman, they escort them to the hospital. When the couple run up the stairs, the soccer ball slips from underneath her dress. [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready It was a car ad]].

* LindsayLohan's execrable film ''Labor Pains'' featured the main character doing this with one of her couch cushions, in front of a room full of baby shower guests who until that moment had thought she was genuinely pregnant.