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My favorite would be the image below, cropped as shown. The subject, lighting, pose and background (minus the house) are lovely.
Showing her belly, bare or not, wouldn't be something that would be likely to get you a lot of commissions as a traditional portrait artist, unless you really wanted to do a series of commissions of pregnant women. People will commission you to create the types of paintings shown in your portfolio.
This image would make a beautiful painting but that's not necessarily the same thing as creating a successful portfolio sample.
The types of things you see in the portfolios on SOG of the long-time pros are more universal and generic in nature. The people depicted in them are fairly standard types designed to appeal to the widest possible audience.
If you already had a portfolio of a dozen terrific samples of traditional subjects in traditional poses, I'd say, go for it. Otherwise I wouldn't use a painting of a preganat woman with a very prominent belly as one of your first pieces in which you were working from a well lighted, well composed reference photo.
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