Fishback had to act her way through labor as Elan, the woman whose baby Paige and Evan were planning to adopt. Never having had a child, the actress went to YouTube to watch birth videos, and “I scared myself,” she says, chuckling. “I was like, ‘Oh my god… like, why would I do that to myself?'”

The prosthetic belly was also a first (you wear it “kind of like a bathing suit,” she says) and it allowed her to mess with her friends when she posted a photo of her, looking rather expectant, on social media.

“I don’t think it really worked,” she says, “but I was like, ‘I am desperate to use it!'”

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