Did the Sunny gang consider not writing Olsons pregnancy into the show? Was Olson totally on board with the storyline?
“I was hoping that they would do it, because I hate watching shows where they’re trying to hide it,” said the star, who gave birth to son Axel Lee McElhenney on Sept. 1. “In fact, I hated watching these episodes leading up to (‘Who Got Dee Pregnant?’), where they tried to hide it. I just feel like everybody knows you’re pregnant and, you know, I can understand if they couldn’t come up with a unique and really funny way to make it happen. But I was hoping that they would, and I think that they did. “Rob and I would talk about it and sort of brainstorm at home, but he would go and have meetings with the writers, and they would try and figure it out. The writers were actually the first people who knew I was pregnant. Our families didn’t even know (yet), because we had to tell the writers right away. It was kind of scary for me. I was very newly pregnant, and they had started writing, and we were like, ‘Uh, we kind of have to tell these people.’ It was very personal, and there was definite
