Nobody Wants This Star Justine Lupe Wants to Make Something ‘Clear’ About Filming While Pregnant

Justine Lupe is ready to change the narrative around pregnancy and work. Yes, she was pregnant on the set of Nobody Wants This. And, no, it didn’t threaten her job or get in the way of her work. In fact, contrary to the narrative we so often hear, it seems that her entire experience was pretty seamless.

A little context: Lupe stars in Nobody Wants This as Morgan, Joanne’s bold older sister. While filming the show, Lupe discovered she was pregnant with her first child. As Lupe explained in a recent social media post, she didn’t initially disclose the news to her colleagues. At one point, Lupe recalled, she was wearing a Gucci skirt that ripped open on set at 2 a.m.. “They had no idea I was pregnant and thought I was just rapidly falling apart,” she wrote.

A number of outlets quickly jumped on the story with headlines describing how Lupe had to “hide” her pregnancy while filming.

Lupe took to Instagram yesterday to set the record straight about her experiences filming the Netflix show while pregnant. “Wanted to just make clear, because my words have (I’m sure with good intention) been cut up and rearranged into a misleading story a few times now,” she wrote in a new post. “I want to clarify that the cast and crew did know I was pregnant as soon as it was safe to share.”