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The Producers Thought It Would Be Fun To Write In Lisa Kudrow’s Pregnancy In A Wacky Way

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Lisa Kudrow became pregnant with her only child in 1997, and rather than hide the pregnancy, the writers for Friends tried to think up the strangest excuse possible for Kudrow’s character. They landed on Phoebe become a surrogate for her half-brother Frank.

Kudrow only had one child, but her character had triplets, so they had to add extra padding on the show to make her stomach large enough.