Justine Bateman: This is going to sound so made up ... As in Lynn — nature photographer and longtime resident of Elmo, Alaska, who is pregnant but not with her boyfriend's child?

But for actress Justine Bateman it took a little longer ... And that's when I did 'The Hollywood Mom's Mystery."' She was pregnant when she played the determined mom whose husband is a suspect ...

Justine Bateman, a star whose age I’m approaching, played Mallory Keaton on “Family Ties” in the 1980s as a teenager. In her early 40s, she says, she typed her name into Google for research ...