jenna-elfman-pregnant“Accidentally on Purpose” star Jenna Elfman decided to go for some serious verisimilitude in her new series by trying to get pregnant at the same time as her character did.

Elfman had just signed up to do a series where she plays a 37-year-old woman who has an affair with a man in his 20s and ends up with an unplanned pregnancy.

If she got pregnant in August, Elfman’s belly would grow at the same pace as that of her character, Billie, a San Francisco newspaper film critic.

“I knew my character was going to be pregnant the entire first season, so I figured it was a good time to have another kid,” she said, “so that was the plan.”

Naturally, because she’s a Scientologist, she managed to screw that plan up like medical care for an autistic child by getting pregnant two months early.

“Yeah, we had one wonderful evening in June,” she says, laughing and trailing off. “It was, um, really romantic. So there you go!” Elfman… is in her second trimester and has had to shoot around her baby bump because it is bigger than Billie’s should be.

Way to go, genius. And news flash, Jenna Elfman: the night couldn’t have been that romantic if you ended up pregnant. If you know what I’m sayin’. Connect the dots on that one. Consider it your biology homework.