According to the tabloids and Instagram, there’s a right way and a wrong way for your baby bump to look.
Your pregnant stomach must be: perfectly circular, not too big, not too small, sitting in the right spot and perfectly in proportion with your body. From the back, you shouldn’t look pregnant. You also need to look round and even, but not fat, in a figure hugging body con dress.
Some high-profile women and their uteruses clearly didn’t get the memo. Apparently.
Exhibit A: Fitness entrepreneur Kayla Itsines is pregnant, but her bump is all wrong.
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Really,now we're saying how baby bumps "should" look like? This is very disrespectful to all pregnant women reading this.
I’m not sure you got the point here. They are saying that women are being criticised for being too big/ too small/ too whatever, when the fact is that every body and every pregnancy is different. They are saying that there is no ‘right’ way to look. They weren’t being disrespectful at all.
Did you even read the article?
Meghan's bump clutching is at ridiculous heights, though. She needs to take lessons on what to do with her hands - if she's not hanging onto Harry for dear life, she's making sure her uterus doesn't fall out (and flicking her oversized coats aside so the cameras can get the best angle).
On a more serious note, what annoys me is how pregnant bodies are fetishised. The undue attention to "baby bumps" is gross and invasive. Media outlets that write articles that objectify pregnant bodies are as much to blame.