Aussie TV star's 'gross' pregnancy side effect

Aussie TV star, Yvonne Strahovski, has revealed she’s been battling with a ‘gross’ side effect during her first pregnancy.

The actress, who currently stars in The Handmaid’s Tale, told The Project she has been forced to carry around a “spit bucket” after battling with the unusual symptom of producing too much saliva.

“There’s a lot of pregnancy symptoms that no one tells you about – which I’m sure all women are familiar with,” Yvonne said.

“This is really gross but I had excessive saliva so I had to carry a spittoon around with me at all times which is just horrendous,” she went on, much to the horror of the show’s hosts Carrie Bickmore, Waleed Aly and Peter Helliar.

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Even 35-year-old Yvonne couldn’t quite believe what she’d “just admitted” on the live TV show.

But the actress, who interestingly plays a character in the SBS show called Serena who can’t get pregnant, confessed she soon got over trying to conceal her unusual pregnancy side effect from her co-stars.

“In the end I was just over-hiding it so I just said, ‘you know what, I’m pregnant’,” she laughed. “People thought that I had the flu or that I was sick, they were scared to come near me.”

Yvonne, who stars alongside Golden Globe winner Elisabeth Moss, is due in September with her husband Tim Loden.

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