There is no question that the standards women are held to are
absolutely ridiculous, and nowhere is that more apparent than the
media’s fascination with celebrities’ post-baby bodies. Any magazine,
celebrity website, even our own Famecrawler, trumpet photos of famous
women mere weeks, sometimes even days, after they have given birth –
and they are almost always toned, thin, and bright-eyed.
Some
sites even have the gall to comment if someone looks less than
sylphlike when they first are out in public after giving birth. As if
our responsibility right after having brought another human into the
world is to make sure we’re pleasing to the eye, not keeping the baby
and ourselves alive and trying to forge a new identity after the whole
world has been rocked by the arrival of this new little person.
I thought this column, from The Age in Australia, was really good. Apparently some shots of Naomi Watts got out
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