Naomi Watts has been endlessly quoted this week about motherhood in conjunction with the publicity she has been doing for her new movie, Eastern Promises. Of course, journalists are asking all of the same questions about weight loss, how divine motherhood must be for her and of course, whether her acting is going to take a backseat (again, why would it?)
Anyway, Kent News writes:
"The new mother told how she had managed to get rid of her baby bump only six-weeks after giving birth, she said: “In fact, I have been eating just as much as I was when I was pregnant because in order to produce breast milk you have to keep the carbohydrate going.
I found this intriguing. One one hand, a visible baby bump is praised on a celebrity when it is actually meant to be there but the minute the baby is born, it is assumed that the celebrity in question is trying desperately to 'rid herself' of the 'bump' as if it was a vestigal organ just sitting there with no purpose. The connection between the 'bump' and the 'baby' is entirely lost. The quote from Naomi Watts does not insinuate that she was actively trying to lose weight, rather she notes that she is losing weight because of breastfeeding. However, it is assumed that she must be trying to lose weight because a 'bump' is just 'fat' even though that same 'bump' represented her 'baby' only a few weeks before.
Source: http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Life-imitates-art-for-Hollywood-star-Naomi-newsinkent5116.aspx
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No, she has actually said that she 'hasn't' lost the baby bump, and it's not worrying her at all, not yet anyway.
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