Alanna Ubach is back as Jo on Season 4 of "Girlfriends' Guide To Divorce" with her character having big decisions that will test her friendships. We caught up with the California-born actress where she was in the middle of her best role, being a mother. "Dedicating my entire afternoon to breast pumping, breast feeding and putting a baby to bed and burping him and all that fun stuff, I’m in love," she told us. "He’s my life, I am madly in love."
Ubach, who was waiting to conceive her child via a fertilization treatment after production of the Bravo show wrapped, was surprised to learn she was pregnant during filming. "My husband and I were trying to get pregnant for a year," she revealed. "Finally I get pregnant after a visit to the fertility doctor … I get pregnant naturally two months later and it was very funny. We were filming in Vancouver and during the show’s season I got pregnant. I was pregnant up until my fifth month and then we wrapped the show."
Sadly, Alanna's pregnancy is not getting written into the show so production had to find creative ways to hide her growing baby bump. "As my pregnancy was showing I was hiding behind large tote bags, sitting down at the coffee table and shooting me from the top of my rib cage, it was very funny and quite clever the way they hid it."
This season of the show Jo begins to have an affair with Albert (Brian Markinson) which will begin a series of events that can ultimately end her friendship with Delia (Necar Zadegan). "This season we get to peel the layers off Albert and that he’s not a monster, quite co-dependent and just a little boy hiding behind this stoic facade," Alanna said. "Jo and he begin to have a relationship together and it really does threaten the relationship she has with Delia."
Alanna tells us that in her real life she has faced similar situations where not everything is what it seems at first sight. "I’ve kissed so many toads in the past before I met my husband hoping that peeling the layers with the guy I would be with would be beneficial to the relationship," she said. "I was a prick magnet and then finally ... so tired of doing the work and thinking that I could find a vulnerable side to the guys I was going out with, by the time I found a vulnerable side I was like 'ok it’s been two years I’m over this bye' and finally I meet a really nice guy who’s devoted and I'm thinking 'oh wow, it should’ve felt like this.'"
On the show Jo decides to take a leap of faith into the relationship, despite putting her friendship at risk with Delia. "She has so much resentment to her ex husband Frumpkis that she feels that she finally deserves a guy that treats her well and is madly in love with her. And why wouldn’t she take this opportunity and run with it? Delia has to leave her ego at the door when it comes to her friendship with Jo. That’s the biggest challenge to an adult … being accepting of whatever your best friend chooses to do."
In reflecting about the decisions made on the show, Alanna has solid advice to her son: "Don’t be a prick to anyone even if you’re not in love with the person you’re with, treat them with respect."
What would be the big takeaway from Season 4 of this show? Alanna tell us: "In the midst of implosion, these girls' friendship is so strong and powerful that it overcomes all of the obstacles that they have to face. They don’t just walk away from each other. The dysfunction that happens brings them even closer together and it makes them stronger and it makes their friendship more powerful and thats what girlfriends are all about."
"Girlfriends' Guide To Divorce" airs new episodes on Thursday nights at 10pm/9c on Bravo.
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