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Kerry Washington‘s pregnancy is going to cost you a little bit of Scandal. Four episodes of the show just got cut.

ABC reduced it’s order of it’s new flagship show, from 22 episodes down to 18,  but it’s not because the show is lagging in ratings. Rather Kerry’s pregnant baby bump is getting a lot harder to hide.

While ABC didn’t give a specific reason for the cut, insiders are saying:

It’s getting hard to hide the pregnancy in loose-fitting clothes for the normally super stylish and elegant Olivia Pope — and it’s hard to reduce Washington’s workload as Pope is the show and in most scenes. The episode reduction would probably be an unexpected but welcome relief for Scandal‘s writers as it is extremely hard to sustain a dense serialized drama like Scandal for a 22-episode season.

Just so members of black twitter and fans of the show can rest easier, know that the cut is not because of lagging ratings. Scandal is up 57% among it’s key audience, and last week’s episode was titled YOLO. You can’t beat that!

But it’s also worth noting that the cut pretty much means they are not writing Kerry’s pregnancy into the show. So, how do you feel about Scandal being cut to 18 episodes?

SOURCE: Deadline | PHOTO CREDIT: ABC