History Main / PillowPregnancy

* Sara has one in the ''Literature/ArtifactsOfPower'' series by MaggieFurey.

* One episode of ''Series/TheGoesWrongShow'' has Vanessa playing a pregnant woman, so she has a pillow stuffed up her shirt. [[RunningGag It bursts every time she or someone else touches her belly]]... and at one point it pops out and she has to chase it down.

* An episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' had Miss Piggy singing "Waiting At The Church" while [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar apparently heavily pregnant]]. At the end, Kermit asks her if she's going to take that silly pillow from under her dress.

* Subverted in the ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' "What's Wrong With This Episode?", where Kate and Lewis both (supposedly) have a PillowPregnancy, but in reality Christa Miller is actually pregnant, and is pulling a HideYourPregnancy.

* The underrated Creator/LindsayLohan film ''Film/LaborPains'' features 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.

* 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.
* ''Narrow Margin'' (1990). On the run from mob killers, the female protagonist sticks her hands in the pockets of her jacket and pushes it out to make herself look pregnant, so Gene Hackman's character can talk an elderly couple into giving up their private cabin so they can hide out of sight.

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* ''Series/{{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.

* ''Theatre/FunnyGirl'' 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 [[HollywoodHomely far too ugly for any man to sing about her rapturous beauty]], so she plays the number for laughs by [[ShotgunWedding sticking a pillow under the belly of the wedding dress she's wearing]], and [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments singing to match]].

** Also done in the Literature/LoganSeries 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.

* ''Theatre/FunnyGirl'' 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 [[HollywoodHomely far too ugly for any man to sing about her rapturous beauty]], so she plays the number for laughs by [[ShotgunWedding sticking a pillow under the belly of the wedding dress she's wearing]], and [[CrowningMomentOfFunny singing to match]].

* In the "Harlem Globetrotters" episode of ''TVFunhouse'', 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.

->'''Natalie Teeger:''' See, Mr. Monk, when two people love each other, they want to express that love… ''[gestures to her chest]''

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* Website/DeviantArt user, [[http://badboych.deviantart.com BADBOYCH]] did an artwork of [[TotemPoleTrench two boys disguising themselves as their very pregnant mother in order to visit their very sick grandmother in the hospital]] it could seen [[http://badboych.deviantart.com/art/Ready-to-go-POP-474721662 here]].

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* Julia Roberts' character in ''Film/OceansTwelve'' is coerced into doing this so she can pretend to be Julia Roberts...[[CelebrityParadox wait]]...

* Along with cutting and dying her hair, the heroine of ''Literature/SafeHaven'' employs this to disguise her appearance when she flees her abusive husband.

* An episode of ''Series/{{FX}}'' had criminals try robbing a gold depository, and threaten to shoot a pregnant woman. She was released by the criminals later, only for her to report the police activity on the ground. They eventually discover that she wasn't pregnant using thermal imaging, but only after the newsreporter said it wasn't necessary and could be told by how she was walking.
* On ''Series/DesperateHousewives,'' 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.

* This occurs in an episode of ''Series/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 not happy.

** Another high school girl, Gabby Rodriguez, carried out a similar project - eventually earning the attention of national television and getting her a book deal.

* Miu from ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'' decides to stuff a pillow under her nightdress after sleeping with Nobue. [[IThoughtItMeant No, not in that way]].

* In the LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek "The Baby Snatcher", a woman employs this in a desperate attempt to keep her husband from leaving her. As her due date approaches, she tries to legitimately adopt a baby before finally resorting to kidnapping one. (This is BasedOnATrueStory. In fact,
it's one of [[Series/HomicideHunter Joe Kenda's]] cases)

* In the LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek "The Baby Snatcher", a woman employs this in a desperate attempt to keep her husband from leaving her. As her due date approaches, she tries to legitimately adopt a baby before finally resorting to kidnapping one. [[note]] This is BasedOnATrueStory. In fact,
it's one of Series/HomicideHunter Joe Kenda's cases.[[/note]]

it's one of [[Series/HomicideHunter Joe Kenda's]] cases. [[/note]]

* In the LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek "The Baby Snatcher", a woman employs this in a desperate attempt to keep her husband from leaving her. As her due date approaches, she tries to legitimately adopt a baby before finally resorting to kidnapping one.

* 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 cases where it gets much worse, and women have [[{{Squick}} murdered and cut open actual pregnant women to steal their unborn children.]]

* On ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', Kristen padded her clothing after miscarrying John's baby, fearful that he would leave her otherwise.
* On ''Series/{{Passions}}'', [[{{Yandere}} Beth]] does a variation of this in [[TheBabyTrap an attempt to lure Luis away]] from Sheridan, who actually was pregnant (although in the latter's case, it was not known if either [[WhosYourDaddy 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 ''[[OhCrap 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, [[TooDumbToLive he never did figure out that the pregnancy was fake.]]

* There's a ''Get Smart'' fan fic where 99 uses this to get Max out of a jam.

* Done by Jessica Alba's character in the movie ''P.U.N.K.S.''.

* In ''Secret Ceremony'', Cenci (Mia Farrow) play-acts at being pregnant by stuffing a plush toy frog under her dress.

* A variant was also used in the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' novel ''Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu'', when Monk and Natalie go shopping at a department store in one scene and end up busting a shoplifting ring. Natalie has a small run-in with a pregnant woman who snatches a blouse she intended to get for Julie. The pregnant woman drops her purse and immediately walks off. Then Monk busts the first shoplifter: an elderly guy smuggling things out of the store in an oxygen. Then one of the store security guards asks Monk if there's anyone else they need to be aware of, and Monk mentions a pregnant woman who is not pregnant. Knowing that said woman is faking it, Natalie tackles her, causing her tummy pack to burst open, and she gets back the blouse she wanted. Natalie then asks Monk how he figured it out and Monk points out that she bent over at her waist to pick up her purse, which would be impossible if she was in her third trimester. Also, she was walking like a normal person and not waddling as a result of the weight displacement.