Image gallery for: First lucille ball was pregnant during i love lucy season 2 so they wrote it into the show at the time it was controversial because cbs executives didn t like that her being pregnant implied that she and ricky had sex
In fact, the script for "Lucy Is Enceinte" famously doesn't include the word "pregnant" because CBS deemed the word "too vulgar" at the time. This is also why the French word for "pregnancy" is used in the title of the episode.