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Inventing Anna: viewers notice the same major error on show 

Yep, looks legit 


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Emmy Griffiths
TV & Film Editor
On 18 February 2022
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Inventing Anna is the show that everyone is talking about right now. The series follows a journalist, Vivian Kent, who investigates the mysterious Anna Delvey, a con artist pretending to be a German heiress to scam banks, hotels, and her friends out of tens of thousands of dollars. While viewers have been loving the dramatised version of the true-crime tale, there was one error in the series that many people have been quick to discuss!

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In the series, Vivian is under a deadline to get her story written before she gives birth, with struggles with her pregnancy while under pressure to finish the article being a major part of the first few episodes. However, after she gave birth on the show, fans were quick to point out that her newborn child looked several months old. 

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One person wrote: "The biggest scam in #InventingAnna is Vivian's newborn baby coming out of the womb like a few months old," while another added: "#InventingAnna was great, until they had Vivian Kent deliver a 6-month-old baby." A third person joked: "No wonder Vivian had a hard labour, that child is SEVERAL months old." Did you spot the gaffe? 

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Did you notice the moment on the show?

Another fan replied, writing: "Ha ha ha ha. I think this exact same thought every time I see a tv newborn (and that's from someone who had a 9 lb 2-ounce baby)." 

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Anna Chlumsky has opened up about playing Vivian on the show, who is loosely based on journalist Jessica Pressler. She said: "Jessica and I know each other, she's credited as a producer on our show, she's given her blessing to every single bit of our show. My character is a fictionalised version of that role and so I didn't have to match her exactly, so the first sort of decision to make was what to borrow and what not to and so what I would say is, I worked very, very closely with her written word, I worked very closely with her notes.

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Anna Chlumsky plays Vivian 

"I pored through them, I just drank them up. They were like, my vitamins, I read all of her articles, I felt like playing somebody who expresses themselves so well and so clearly in her own voice, that really the written word was giving me the most anchor that I needed. So that was my way in."

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