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Pregcellent: Enough With the Naked Pregnant Celebrities Already!
Christina Aguilera is on the cover of January’s Marie Claire, buck nekked and pregnant as all get out. I think that since Demi Moore did it waaay back in 1991 for Vanity Fair, we’ve had the opportunity to see about 75 thousand naked pregnant celebrities in magazines. If you are old like me, you might remember that when Demi posed sans clothes for Annie Leibovitz, there was a big brouhaha. Was it empowering or exploitative? Should knocked up ladies be sexy? But that was the 90′s. Now? Eh. But don’t worry, I can still manage to work up some pissy anger over the whole thing.
Lord knows I have no problems with nudity (in fact I’m on the pro side of it) and sure, pregnant women can be sex symbols. Be my guest. But I’m starting to get irritated with the phenomenon because of course the burgeoning stars are given the same treatment as everyone in magazines, meaning they are airbrushed and shrunk down and reshaped into this bizarre aesthetic. (I’ll add that Xtina is one of those celebs who gets the mighty computer treatment in almost every photo I’ve ever seen, so she looks like she’s made of a strange polymer. She might be a pretty lady in true life, but it’s hard to know what she actually looks like with all that retouchification.) And the result is that instead of all these pics being an affirmation of the sexy power of a woman 7 months along, we get an impossible, unrealistic, and frankly weird standard of beauty that pregnant women get to aspire to. Joy.
Stretch marks, the pregnant ass, weird pigmentation, swollen ankles–hey, that’s a normal pregnancy for you. But the only things these stars show is a round belly and the bigger-than-before boobies. I’ll give my undying love to any famous lady who poses naked in a magazine, far along in her pregnancy and untouched by computers. It might even be sexy.
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Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI’m with mtlmama…I’m 22 and pregnant with my first. I’m due right about the same time as Christina and that’s pretty much what I look like right there. Sure, I’m physically uncomfortable, but I have no stretch marks, swelling, etc. (don’t worry, I’m enjoying it while I can). Just a little belly bump and nice boobs. I’m not saying she’s not Photoshopped (I’m sure she is) but that’s probably not too far off of what she really looked like at the time. I just really, really hate her makeup. For someone with millions, she usually looks really cheap.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI think you are all forgetting that it’s her first pregnancy and she’s in her mid-twenties…. myself being pregnant for the first time at 23 I looked awesome (no swelling, hemeroid or skin conditions), now 27 having a 3rd pregnancy.. not so much.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 am“pregnant as all getout?” That’s me at five, maybe six, months.
lilmissyny commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amYou wanna impress me? Let her take a naked one after delivery (sans plastic surgery)!
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amActually we have no idea what she looks like. There is no way the magazine or her handlers would let an untouched photo out. I think it is pitiful when pregnant celebreties try to look sexy while pregnant. Nothing says hottie like hemmorhoids, leaky boobs and the constant gush of goo down there! Please people, she does not look like that. Those shoes look so dumb.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amGreat read, Kelli. I think you’re absolutely right…..
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amShe’s not actually buck naked on the cover. She’s wearing a jacket! And she looks great.
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