Kareena Kapoor Khan to Gal Gadot: Actresses who concealed their baby bump on-screen using VFX

Life on the film set can be taxing and stressful with the long hours and heavy workloads. But, there are times when actresses have risen to the challenge and proved their mettle by working on films through their pregnancies. We have drawn up a list of Bollywood and Hollywood celebrities who brought on their A-game to keep the cameras rolling and left it to the movie magicians to work their magic and conceal their baby bumps on-screen with the help of visual effects.

Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor Khan is one actress who has not let pregnancy or even the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic slow her down. Currently pregnant with baby number 2, the actress was spotted resuming the 'Laal Singh Chaddha' shoot with Aamir Khan. Looking radiant with a big smile on her face and showing off her baby bump, the actress got cracking on her shoot. We gave you the exclusive scoop that the actress will complete shooting her portions of the film with her bump on full display, while the visual effects team works on conceal it in the post-production stage.

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Hollywood actress Gal Gadot blew away audiences with her powerful and impressive portrayal of the demi-goddess 'Wonder Woman'. Even more impressive was the fact that she was five months pregnant while filming reshoots for the movie. The actress shot portions of action-sequences and some other re-takes with her war armour cut out for her baby bump. The actress filmed the portions with her bump covered in green cloth, that allowed editors to simply edit it out in the post-production stage.

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Scarlett Johansson, best known for her role as 'Black Widow', was also pregnant while shooting for 'Avengers: Age of Ultron'. The intense stunt scenes were deemed too dangerous for the pregnant star to perform, which prompted the makers to use multiple body doubles, cheat shots, face mapping techniques, costume alterations and visual effects to make sure the character got her due place among the boys in the action-packed flick.

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Penelope Cruz discovered she was pregnant midway through the shoot of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ with Johnny Depp. The actress worked through her pregnancy with a little help from the costume department that altered her costumes and even got her into corsets to try to hide the bump for a while. The makers also roped in Penelope's sister, Monica to act as a body and stunt double in the film.

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While the other actresses on this list may have shot one film, Blake Lively filmed 'The Age of Adaline' and even worked on the horror flick 'The Shallows' while heavily pregnant. The star reportedly even shot her own action stunts and let a body double take over towards the end of her shoot. The rest, they say was movie magic.

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