Bree Hodge (who used to be Bree Van de Kamp before her husband was poisoned and she remarried) is fighting alcoholism and the growing estrangement of her son while trying to keep up appearances on Wisteria Lane. She’s also faking a pregnancy, and plans to raise her teenage daughter’s illegitimate baby as her own.

Is this for real? Not unless you believe everything you see on TV. Bree is a character played by actress Marcia Cross on “Desperate Housewives,” one of the world’s most...