Conversation overheard along the corridor.
Girl 1: Yah, I think she's damn vain.
Girl 2: Yah, I don't understand why she must wear tight clothes!
Me (ears pricking because these are two members of staff that I won't exactly call fashionably inclined)
Girl 1: Some more she's so pregnant! Why? She want to show off and tell the world she's pregnant is it?
Girl 2: Yah, why can't she wear some loose clothes like normal pregnant women?
Girl 1: Yah, why can't she hide it? So gross!
Girl 2: Vain what, want to show the world she's pregnant.
At this point, they realise there was some one behind them and turned around. And if only I had my camera with me, the looks on their faces when they realised the vain, pregnant show off was indeed walking behind them. So, in my stretchy non-pregnant top that shows my bump in its full glory, I get rid of the waddle and saunter right past them and show them that's how it's supposed to be done.
But anyway, I now know that in their very skewed and squinty eyes, I'm a pregnant slut. Oh well, if dressing well makes me slutty in their eyes, perhaps they need to be somewhat less prudish.
I'm assuming here, by no far stretch of the imagination, that these are the girls who, when they get pregnant, will wear hideous puffy sleeved dresses with bows on them, or ugly assymetrical tops or skirts to hide their bumps in the most distasteful of ways. This is worse than the other colleague that came up to me and commented that I must be a modern mother because I was in flat "aunty" sandals but in pointy 1 1/2 inch sling backs.
When will people learn that pregnancy isn't something to hide and one can actually look good when one is with child? As is, there's so much to be miserable about being pregnant, having pretty clothes and being able to look good in them is one of the perks!
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Friday, April 20, 2007
Pregnant Slut
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wow that blog was awesome. yes i am just a random person who decided to press next blog and check out somebody elses blog...but i am so very glad to have stumbled upon this very, at the least to say, amazing entry. and no i am not exxagerating, and i hope that when i am one day pregnant, i will do as you do :D you're not a slut, i like fashionably too-be mommies :P
ReplyDeleteYeah, the best friend used to get looks when she was pregnant and wearing tight tank tops over long skirts to go to the coffeeshop or something. People need to stop judging so much in this country!
ReplyDeletefoo-yoh, what's wrong with showing off your baby bump? they're probably jealous that they, sans baby bump, don't look half as good as you do.
ReplyDeleteHi I'm 11 wks pregnant and reading your entries has provided much comfort. What kind of outdated ideas do your colleagues have?!! i'm going to show off my bump for sure when it starts showing!
ReplyDeleteWTF! Dont they know that there is a very practical reason as well?
ReplyDeleteIf you hide your bump, you greatly reduce the chances of people giving up their seats for you when you're using public transport!
Why cannot show bump?! Tym is right - people judge about everything...
Can I paint your bump? Please? I've always wanted to paint a pregnant woman's bump… not that anyone has ever let me. :( You can see some of what I've done at my flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/smokegrey/sets/72157594191909260/), if you want, although I realize it's a completely weird thing to have a stranger ask if she can paint your belly.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I've been reading your main blog for a while, and really like your writing. Congrats on the baby. :)