If you've been to our celebrity-following sister blog Famecrawler, you know Lisa Marie Presley is pregnant. And pissed. And suing. You know, because of the whole problem so many of us face: Just as you are trying to decide who to share the happy news of your expecting-ness with, the tabloids start printing a rash of stories about how you let yourself go because you've gotten a bit heavier. And then there's some ugly comparisons to your dad, and speculation you will die the same way he did. You know, typical stuff.
Lisa Marie wrote a whole thing on her MySpace page about how hurt and angry she is by this, and she's taking the tabloids to task for the unkindness. But one of the more interesting things about it all is (as the Five Resolutions blog points out) how the same papers that lambasted her for putting on pounds are now characterizing her as the glowing, lovely pregnant lady. Right, because those folks were just worried about her health before, and now they are so relieved. I mean, if she was getting fat, then bad on her, but if she's pregnant, well, she looks radiant. Hold on, I think I feel my own morning sickness coming on, and I'm not even pregnant... Perhaps we have a new rule of thumb here: Wait until after the first trimester to make your pregnancy public. Unless you are famous and the papers start saying you are turning into Elvis--then you just wait until the coverage gets mean enough.
