According to reports out of Shanghai, pregnant women are getting professional portraits of their burgeoning bellies inspired by none other than the woman who is on the brink of having her license to exist revoked, Britney Spears. Ever since Brit posed for Harper's Bazaar nude and knocked up, Chinese women (mostly with successful careers and university education) are feeling more comfortable showing off their bumps and having a keepsake photo (especially in light of China's one-child policy). After all, remembering a pregnancy is obviously more important when it's only supposed to happen once.
I was so excited to find this report because I have been looking for this kind of information for the past year, although I have been particularly focused on Japan. As I have been corresponding with various scholars in the United States as to whether there is a similar term for 'baby bump' in Japanese (and apparently there is no direct translation), I have been unable to find any information about whether Asian women are as interested in showing off their bumps or doing pregnant portraits like many women in the US, Australia and the UK. Now, to find that the trend is catching on in China confirms some of my theories about the global nature of the media and how women feel about their bodies in pregnancy.
Source: http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200708090090.html
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