Just How Fake Is Pregnant & Dating?

The amazing thing about Pregnant & Dating is that producers found not just one or two but five single ladies bold enough to look for love whilst gestating babies that other dudes, no longer in the picture, stuck them with. (I'm oversimplifying the premise of the show, but not much.) Admittedly, I've personally never known any women in that position, but the pregnant ladies I have known never seemed to me as though meeting new people was something they were all that interested in; if I had asked them to get ready to (a) ingratiate themselves to a brand-new romantic prospect and (b) put on pants to do so, they probably would have laughed in my face. But, for two weeks running, Pregnant & Dating has brought us these five optimists and their separate pursuits of love, undertaken even as the moment they're each going to have to poop out their babies is weeks away. It's a premise that makes you wonder...how real could this show possibly be?

Consider Rachel, the Pregnant Dater whose adventures have mostly been siloed online. That Rachel is (supposedly) dating is the hardest to swallow out of all the bachelorettes', because Rachel is carrying twins. (Frankly, I feel the time she's devoting to finding her babies a father might be better spent rubbing olive oil into her parts, but she didn't ask me.) After a pretty bad date last week, Rachel has decided to quit fucking around and enlist the help of a professional matchmaker, Louie. ("I believe everyone deserves love in their life, whether they're too tall or a little heavy or pregnant!" - Louie.) When he asks her about her babies' father -- how long ago they broke up (er, it's only been "a couple of months"), whether he was older or younger than she is, and how they met -- Rachel starts crying in his office. This is where I think a reputable matchmaker might observe that, possibly, Rachel still isn't over her ex-boyfriend and that maybe she should come back when she can answer a few very innocuous questions about him without losing control of her emotions. And maybe Louie did do that -- and if he did, I have some theories as to how this happened.

And scene.