Maureen McCormick

Maureen was the first "Brady kid" to get pregnant in real life. Early in the pregnancy, she had signed on to do the CBS made for TV movie A Very Brady Christmas, a production which included the original Brady Bunch cast, with the exception of Susan Olsen. Maureen fondly remembers all the love and kindness shown to her by her fellow cast members when she made the special announcement on set.

Throughout her life, Maureen always preferred the name Christine, a name her mother had once contemplated giving her, and vowed to use it if she ever had a daughter. When Ms. McCormick gave birth to a little girl in 1989, she immediately called her Christine. After bringing the baby home from the hospital, Maureen and her husband decided their daughter didn't look like a Christine, and ultimately named her Natalie.

After seeing 1,200 boys and girls as possible candidates to fill the roles of the children on The Brady Bunch, creator Sherwood Schwartz and director John Rich narrowed the field down to one set with three blond girls and three brown-haired boys and one set with three brunette girls and three blond boys. Maureen McCormick was in the first group, which actually had her playing the middle daughter, Jan (a role that later went to actress Eve Plumb). When Schwartz decided to go with younger children, she was moved into a new threesome where she was the oldest and ultimately won the part of the eldest Brady daughter, Marcia.