It wasn't enough for children to be among the prized consumer goods every upwardly mobile (or upwardly mobile wannabe) couple counted among their possessions, next to the espresso machine and the home gym system and the his-and-her Blackberrys.
Now, pregnancy itself is supposedly a fashion, the new "in" look for women who want to be just like the stars.
I guess they've forgotten that pregnancy simply doesn't look good. It wasn't intended to; it's function, not fashion. Even stars look terrible knocked up. I've seen the recent photo of Angelina Jolie with her do-rag and her brown tent top and huge belly, and it was only after a minute or so of staring at an attractive Asian woman in the center of that same photo that my eyes finally wandered over to the distended Ms. Jolie. Large as she is now, her pregnancy has made her invisible next to an unpregnant woman. Who would think anyone could upstage Angelina in a photo?
Enough celebrity gossip. The point is, pregnancy is not hip. It's not beautiful. It's not in. It's just something people do. All the celeb pregnancies and self-indulgent fashion shoots and hoity-toity maternity boutiques won't change that. Nothing that has been done for millions of years, by billions of people and tens of billions of non-human creatures, is ever going to be "hip."
I can't wait to see the Next Big Thing. What might it be?
"Breathing: The New Black!"
Somebody get Vogue on the phone, stat.
Friday, April 28, 2006
It's hip to be pregnant
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I could not agree with you more. Fashions are now celebrating the pregnant form in making 2 piece outfits that purposely show the belly. Disgusting! And there are pregnancy bikini contests too. UGH!!
It's really silly how the fashion and entertainment worlds attempt to make pregnancy look cute. Another undercover "have more babies!" marketing ploy in light of the fact that more people around the world are seriously looking at being childfree as an option? Makes me wonder.
Part of the problem is that Hollywood, and most U.S. society (I can't comment on other places, as I haven't lived in other places long enough to make that judgment) feels that it has some proprietary interest in women's bodies.
This society polices women's bodies. IF they're too thin, we chide them for being anorexic (but mostly out of envy and out of a wish to discredit their thinness as being somehow not authentic), if they're too fat, we make fun of them for being fat. God forbid there's a tiny hair follicle on a woman's forearm, and now, a grown woman's vagina, b.c. the sexiness police will come and bash her.
So, for the anorexia-prone celebrity set who are told that if they gain 10 lbs and become a normal healthy weight, that they'll stop being able to getwork in Hollywood, the only time they have 'permission', a 'get out of jail free' card to EAT and enjoy foods that normal people get to eat, is during pregnancy.
So that's why I think all these types are getting sprogged up. Also, most people are dumb and act like lemmings. IF a critical mass start doing X, everybody else falls into line and also does X. In this case, X = pregnancy, so they're all playing follow the lemmings and jump off the cliff.
I agree that it is quite strange for pregnancy to be the hip thing to do, but I don't think that it's right that pregnant women should be considered "invisible." It doesn't make them a not-person.
I completely agree with you! Brillant point!
I have recently seen knocked up young women wearing shirts that allow the bottom of the belly to show above the low rise pants.Yuuuck!!!!I want to see that about as much as I love seeing hairy fat bellies on men peeking out from under their shirts or a plumber's arse crack showing at the top of his low slung pants.
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