Celebrity pregnancies draw trolls and fans alike to weigh in with their totally unsolicited
opinions.
An experience that should be joyful can turn ugly quickly for pregnant celebrities, whose
bodies are picked apart from the moment the tabloids even have an inkling that they may
be expecting.
These are just some of the celebs who've dealt with people shaming their pregnancies.
Kim Kardashian
The reality star's first pregnancy was met with a ton of body-shaming from the press,
and the nasty headlines and cruel memes comparing her to a killer whale weren't easy for Kim
Kardashian to shrug off.
She explained to C Magazine that the abuse changed the way she thought about her body
and being photographed.
"Before I was always smiling, and so into being out and about.
After I had the baby, I was like, these are the same people that made fun of me, and posted
the stories that were so awful, calling me fat for something I couldn't control.
I don't want to smile for them.
I don't want to be out."
Her second pregnancy was unfortunately no different, with people comparing her appearance
at the 2015 VMAs to Batman's nemesis, the Penguin.
One headline declared later in her pregnancy, "Kim Kardashian has gained more weight this
pregnancy than she did with North — and she still has six weeks to go!"
Kate Hudson
She's built an empire around fitness and fashion, so you might be surprised at just how scrutinized
Kate Hudson's appearance was during both of her pregnancies.
She revealed to Vogue that she gained 70 pounds in her first pregnancy in 2003 with her son
Ryder and that controlling her eating was difficult.
"I would be eating ice cream and my mom would literally pry the spoon away from me, saying,
'You've had enough to last you a lifetime.'"
Apparently talking about her weight gain made people feel like they had a right to comment
when she got pregnant with her second son Bing, with headlines like, "Careful With Those
Cookies, Kate Hudson!
Remember What Happened Last Time?"
While Hudson was able to laugh off some of the jokes, she revealed to Chelsea Handler
that the experience was an emotional rollercoaster.
"All of a sudden you have the baby, then all of a sudden you're 70 pounds overweight, then
all of a sudden you feel very scrutinized."
"It is just about health, isn't it?
So you kind of have to say, 'Well, f--- the people who are scrutinizing me, but I do want
to get healthy."
Beyoncé
Terms typically used to describe Beyoncé include "flawless," "fierce," and "fabulous,"
but during her pregnancies, she was also frequently called fat on social media.
During her first pregnancy, she gained 57 pounds, and told Shape magazine that she,
like many women, has to work hard to stay fit.
"I'm not a person that is naturally very thin.
I am a person that has to work at keeping my body in shape."
The trolls came out in full force when she was pregnant for the second time: "Beyoncé
is so fat" or calling her "fat as hell" were among the more tame insults.
Luckily, there were plenty of people who were having none of it, reminding the world that
she was pregnant with twins and, you know, that requires a bit of weight gain.
Janet Jackson
Even the legendary Miss Jackson couldn't escape the pregnancy trolls.
Her supposed crime?
Being too old.
When Jackson announced she was expecting her first child at almost 50, people wasted little
time asking if having a baby at her age was healthy and declaring her too old to get pregnant.
While fertility decreases and pregnancy risks increase as a woman gets older, advancing
technology means that a safe pregnancy is possible later and later in life.
Jackson welcomed her totally healthy son in January 2017.
Jessica Simpson
Even before she got pregnant, Jessica Simpson was a frequent victim of body-shaming.
When she revealed she was pregnant in 2012, it only got worse.
Tabloid headlines called her "huge, almost unrecognizable" and Us Weekly declared, incredulously,
"It's Not Twins!" after Simpson made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
When she joined Weight Watchers as a spokesperson after having her second baby, TMZ called her
a "professional fat person."
While Simpson dropped her baby weight with the help of Weight Watchers and a personal
trainer, she doesn't regret her pregnancy choices.
She told Redbook,
"I think any woman who is pregnant and creating a life is pretty much entitled to eat whatever
she wants as long as she's healthy.
I wasn't going to let the media take away what was one of the happiest times in my life."
Serena Williams
She won the Australian Open while she was pregnant — a fact which solidified, to many,
Serena Williams' status as one of the greatest athletes of all time.
But, according to many trolls and critics, it was "over the top" when Williams posed
in her birthday suit while pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair.
Many commenters called the photos "shameful and highly unnecessary" and "disgusting."
Supporters also came out in full force, calling the photos beautiful, empowering, and spectacular.
Williams gave birth to her daughter, Alexis, in September 2017 and the strong and beautiful
baby girl already has her own Instagram account.
Hayden Panettiere
The petite actress is just over 5 feet tall and typically weighs around 106 pounds, but
when Hayden Panettiere was pregnant in 2014, she revealed she had gained 40 pounds with
a month to go, and the weight strained her small frame.
She told Hello! magazine,
"And the worst part is that my feet are still size five and they're going, 'What's going
on with all this weight?'
They're about to snap from underneath me with the strain."
She kept a pretty positive outlook about it, talking about how as a former gymnast, she
was muscular to begin with and carrying around 40 extra pounds certainly helps build muscle,
too.
While Panettiere never said she gained 40 pounds because she's muscular, that didn't
stop people from misquoting her.
An opinion piece published by the pregnancy and parenting website mom.me said,
"When she tried to blame her 40-pound weight gain so far during her pregnancy on that cute
little athletic figure of hers, I think she went a bit too far."
TMZ also had a segment about her "massive, massive belly," calling her "ready to blow"
and going so far as to offer opinions on whether she should have a natural birth or c-section.
Healthy baby girl Kaya was born in December 2014, and her mommy's totally normal pregnancy
was immortalized on Season 3 of Nashville …
"Tell me that I don't look like this!"
"You're pregnant!
This is what pregnant people look like."
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