I was interviewed by Globe and Mail, the Canadian national newspaper a few weeks back for a story on baby bumps and celebrity culture...and here it is in today's paper..
Hot Hollywood moms set the bar too high
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070731.LBABYBUMP31/TPStory/
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I am almost seven months pregnant and have just started to REALLY show the last 3-4 weeks or so. Before that, every person I ran into commented on how "great" I was looking. I find it so funny that now that I'm showing, I get the 'Whoa" reaction (followed immediately with "comforting" words reassuring me that I'll lose the weight).
What people seem to forget is that a woman should be PROUD of her pregnant belly - her body is working harder than it ever has and that it is busy creating something miraculous.
I would rather spend the next few months enjoying all of the changes happening to me than worrying that I'm not living up to someone elses expectations of what "looking great" is.
I just read the article in the globe and mail...and it touched on ONE point that I think is really key.
Celebrities can afford to hire STAFF to manage EVERYTHING in their life for them so they can devote LOTS of time to health and weight loss after a baby is born - and they have staff to help them with that as well!
After us non-celebrity women have a baby, life often goes back to 'normal' pretty quickly. We are expected to do EVERYTHING we did before we had the baby - often with only nominal help from our spouses.
It's virutally impossible for a new , exhausted mom, who is home alone with her demanding child(ren) all day to make the same kinds of healthy foods she once made, and keep up with everything else she has to do as well -- but celebrities can afford to hire all the chefs they need to make great tasting, healthy, low cal food for them! (Not to mention someone to pay the bills, clean the house, do the grocery shopping, watch the kids if they need a break, and run any other errands they need.)
And exercise? Well, if you're a woman who loved exercise before the baby, you there are many ways to figure out how to exercise with baby in tow...but if you never had a great love for exercise...let's just say a personal trainer would be a great help -- IF you could easily afford one -- like celebrities can.
I have nothing against celebrities and their financial abundance - Good for them! I just wish (a) every mom could have a 'staff' to delegate things to or (b) If we're never going live in a world where not every mom has a "staff" to delegate stuff to THAT MOMS STOP COMPARING THEMSELVES WITH CELEBRITIES! It really is an unfair comparision!
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