# L&O SVU Actress Mariska Hartigay expecting- How best to work into the storyline? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/l-o-svu-actress-mariska-hartigay-expecting-how-best-to-work-into-the-storyline/333730 "2005-12-02T15:29:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/l-o-svu-actress-mariska-hartigay-expecting-how-best-to-work-into-the-storyline/333730/21 "2005-12-02T21:23:35Z")
How about she grows that mutant thing from Total Recall. “Stabler! you must start the reactors…” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/l-o-svu-actress-mariska-hartigay-expecting-how-best-to-work-into-the-storyline/333730/22 "2005-12-02T21:27:45Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Simplest, most low-key way to handle it: Olivia gets knocked up in a one-night stand by some guy she never wants to see again; wrestles a while with the choice; finally decides to have the baby and put it up for adoption; takes a short leave to give birth; no Very Special Episode, no big whoop, she’s back at work the next week with only a mild case of post-natal depression. IOW, much like it might happen in real life. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/l-o-svu-actress-mariska-hartigay-expecting-how-best-to-work-into-the-storyline/333730/23 "2005-12-02T21:33:17Z")
For some reason I thought Jayne was a brunette. Did she not do those bra commercials for full-figured women back in the 70s? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/l-o-svu-actress-mariska-hartigay-expecting-how-best-to-work-into-the-storyline/333730/24 "2005-12-02T21:35:08Z")
> [@Veuve\_ClicquotNJ](#): > > Fabulous gene pool no matter which gentleman is her actual father: > > Nelson Sardelli: > [http://www.nelsonsardelli.com/Artwork/him/nelsonself.jpg](http://www.nelsonsardelli.com/Artwork/him/nelsonself.jpg) > > Mickey Hargitay “back in the day”: > [http://tinyurl.com/7oyf6](http://tinyurl.com/7oyf6) > Mickey still looking dapper (he has owned a plant/garden center in CA for a number of years) > [http://tinyurl.com/aylxl](http://tinyurl.com/aylxl) > > And of course - Mama Jayne: > [http://vespa-club-des-savoie.chez-alice.fr/affiches/calend/1963\_08JayneMansfield.jpg](http://vespa-club-des-savoie.chez-alice.fr/affiches/calend/1963_08JayneMansfield.jpg) > [http://tinyurl.com/8h8z2](http://tinyurl.com/8h8z2) > VCNJ~ I never realized how much she looks like her mother until I saw these pictures. And I never thought Hargitay was particularly pretty. Sometimes she is, but she has the type of face that can look rather masculine if they don’t do the hair and makeup just right. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/l-o-svu-actress-mariska-hartigay-expecting-how-best-to-work-into-the-storyline/333730/25 "2005-12-02T21:35:18Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Simplest, most low-key way to handle it: Olivia gets knocked up in a one-night stand by some guy she never wants to see again; wrestles a while with the choice; finally decides to have the baby and put it up for adoption; takes a short leave to give birth; no Very Special Episode, no big whoop, she’s back at work the next week with only a mild case of post-natal depression. > > Do they dare? They did that on ER with Ming-Na Wen. Considering how little Dick Wolk delves into character on the L&O series, I still think she’s going to get shot. Or maybe some horrible traumatic child-molestation case comes up, the perp gets off on a technicality and ends up killing his victim, and she needs time off to “regroup.” ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/l-o-svu-actress-mariska-hartigay-expecting-how-best-to-work-into-the-storyline/333730/26 "2005-12-02T21:37:10Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > For some reason I thought Jayne was a brunette. Did she not do those bra commercials for full-figured women back in the 70s? I believe that’s Jane Russell. Who scares the hell out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/l-o-svu-actress-mariska-hartigay-expecting-how-best-to-work-into-the-storyline/333730/27 "2005-12-02T21:46:32Z")
She could always get shot and spend a few months “recovering”, as Jesse L. Martin did when he took time off to appear in the film version of _Rent_. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/l-o-svu-actress-mariska-hartigay-expecting-how-best-to-work-into-the-storyline/333730/28 "2005-12-03T01:43:41Z")
Dear heavens, please don’t let the writers be setting up a Stabler/Benson romance. Yes, they’ve got chemistry out the wazoo, but there is no way it would work. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/l-o-svu-actress-mariska-hartigay-expecting-how-best-to-work-into-the-storyline/333730/29 "2005-12-03T02:33:40Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > Dear heavens, please don’t let the writers be setting up a Stabler/Benson romance. Yes, they’ve got chemistry out the wazoo, but there is no way it would work. especially because she knows he is emotionally closed off. she’d never be with him [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/l-o-svu-actress-mariska-hartigay-expecting-how-best-to-work-into-the-storyline/333730.md?page=1)