Nobody Wants This Star Justine Lupe on Her Character's Style and Acting While Pregnant

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For actress Justine Lupe, starting to film season one of the hit Netflix series Nobody Wants This while at the end of her first trimester of pregnancy was perfect timing. "It was divine intervention in a real way, because, yes, I felt like I had mono through my first trimester," Lupe said. "I could not get up. It was so, so tiring. I really lucked out that it started and then I was in that amazing kind of reinvigorating second trimester. Like a Renaissance moment."

When it came to Lupe's character, Morgan, the costume department tweaked her wardrobe to adjust for Lupe's real-life pregnancy, while still maintaining the character's essence in the clothes.

"They did such a good job of keeping the essence and the character alive in these new outfits that were a little bit more, I guess, conservative, or covered up a little bit more," Lupe said.

On the latest episode of The Who What Wear Podcast, Lupe shares what it was like being pregnant while filming the show, how her 2025 Emmys look came to be, and more. For excerpts from their conversation, scroll below.

I want to touch on being pregnant while filming season one of the show. My first question is how? As far as I know, nobody has escaped the first-trimester extreme fatigue. Did you have that? How did you deal?

I actually got the job when I was in my first trimester, and then I started the job right at the end of my first trimester. It was divine intervention in a real way, because, yes, I felt like I had mono through my first trimester.