As an actor or actress, everything in life affects how you do your job and are portrayed on screen. I can imagine the little panic that goes through every actress, writer, and producer when a star actress becomes pregnant. Do you hide her behind scenery, pretend it's not happening, or creatively write it into the show? That's just what "Married...with Children" did when Katey Sagal became pregnant.
In 1991, one of our favorite stay at home moms and one-eyed aliens, Katey Sagal learned that she was pregnant. Though the pregnancy wasn't planned, it needed to be addressed in the show. It was written into the storyline. Unfortunately, seven months into the pregnancy she underwent an emergency Caesarean section that resulted in a stillbirth.
The subject matter was too heavy for the comedic show, but the surprising subject needed to be addressed again. The show's pregnancy was written off as a dream that received barely any air time, just a passing mention, at the end of an episode.
The show didn't write Sagal's two later pregnancies into the show, instead writing her absence with a subplot and hiding her midsection behind objects on screen. The writers learned their lesson about the sensitive subject the first time around!
