Amanda Tapping, who stars in the SCI FI Channel’s original series Stargate SG-1, is pregnant with her first child, but told SCI FI Wire that she does not want to see her pregnancy written into Lt. Col. Samantha Carter’s character arc for a possible season nine. “I don’t think that would work for Carter at all,” Tapping said in an interview. “It would so change her if she were a mom. I just don’t think that she would be back with the Stargate program.” Tapping has been married to Alan Kovacs for 10 years.
Tapping, who is due in March, added, “When I got pregnant I kept it very quiet for a long time from the producers and everybody. I wanted to make sure that everything was going to be OK with this pregnancy. I thought, ‘Oh God, what if we do come back? I guess it would be Pete’s [David DeLuise] baby. But, oh, gee, no.’ It just doesn’t work on any level for me to have it be part of the story. The perfect thing was that we ended [production on season eight] just as I was starting to really show, and because for most of the last couple of weeks I was playing a different version of Carter it worked out that we could cover it up very well. So now I get to go through the bulk of my pregnancy during the off-season. It’s very good timing.” Stargate SG-1 will kick off the second half of its eighth season in January 2005.
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